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AcidulateAcidulate A*cid"u*late, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Acidulated; p.
pr. & vb. n. Acidulating.] [Cf. F. aciduler. See
Acidulous.]
To make sour or acid in a moderate degree; to sour somewhat.
--Arbuthnot. AcidulatedAcidulate A*cid"u*late, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Acidulated; p.
pr. & vb. n. Acidulating.] [Cf. F. aciduler. See
Acidulous.]
To make sour or acid in a moderate degree; to sour somewhat.
--Arbuthnot. AcidulatingAcidulate A*cid"u*late, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Acidulated; p.
pr. & vb. n. Acidulating.] [Cf. F. aciduler. See
Acidulous.]
To make sour or acid in a moderate degree; to sour somewhat.
--Arbuthnot. Adulate
Adulate Ad"u*late, v. t. [L. adulatus, p. p. of adulari.]
To flatter in a servile way. --Byron.
Adulator
Adulator Ad"u*la`tor, n. [L., fr. adulari: cf. F. adulateur.]
A servile or hypocritical flatterer. --Carlyle.
Adulatory
Adulatory Ad"u*la*to*ry, a. [L. adulatorius, fr. adulari: cf.
OF. adulatoire.]
Containing excessive praise or compliment; servilely
praising; flattering; as, an adulatory address.
A mere rant of adulatory freedom. --Burke.
Adulatress
Adulatress Ad"u*la`tress, n.
A woman who flatters with servility.
Circumundulate
Circumundulate Cir`cum*un"du*late, v. t. [Pref. circum- +
undulate.]
To flow round, as waves. [R.]
Glandulation
Glandulation Glan`du*la"tion, n. [Cf. F. glandulation.] (Bot.)
The situation and structure of the secretory vessels in
plants. --Martyn.
Glandulation respects the secretory vessels, which are
either glandules, follicles, or utricles. --J. Lee.
Menticirrus undulatusSucker Suck"er (s[u^]k"[~e]r), n.
1. One who, or that which, sucks; esp., one of the organs by
which certain animals, as the octopus and remora, adhere
to other bodies.
2. A suckling; a sucking animal. --Beau. & Fl.
3. The embolus, or bucket, of a pump; also, the valve of a
pump basket. --Boyle.
4. A pipe through which anything is drawn.
5. A small piece of leather, usually round, having a string
attached to the center, which, when saturated with water
and pressed upon a stone or other body having a smooth
surface, adheres, by reason of the atmospheric pressure,
with such force as to enable a considerable weight to be
thus lifted by the string; -- used by children as a
plaything.
6. (Bot.) A shoot from the roots or lower part of the stem of
a plant; -- so called, perhaps, from diverting nourishment
from the body of the plant.
7. (Zo["o]l.)
(a) Any one of numerous species of North American
fresh-water cyprinoid fishes of the family
Catostomid[ae]; so called because the lips are
protrusile. The flesh is coarse, and they are of
little value as food. The most common species of the
Eastern United States are the northern sucker
(Catostomus Commersoni), the white sucker (C.
teres), the hog sucker (C. nigricans), and the
chub, or sweet sucker (Erimyzon sucetta). Some of
the large Western species are called buffalo fish,
red horse, black horse, and suckerel.
(b) The remora.
(c) The lumpfish.
(d) The hagfish, or myxine.
(e) A California food fish (Menticirrus undulatus)
closely allied to the kingfish
(a); -- called also bagre.
8. A parasite; a sponger. See def. 6, above.
They who constantly converse with men far above
their estates shall reap shame and loss thereby; if
thou payest nothing, they will count thee a sucker,
no branch. --Fuller.
9. A hard drinker; a soaker. [Slang]
10. A greenhorn; one easily gulled. [Slang, U.S.]
11. A nickname applied to a native of Illinois. [U. S.]
Carp sucker, Cherry sucker, etc. See under Carp,
Cherry, etc.
Sucker fish. See Sucking fish, under Sucking.
Sucker rod, a pump rod. See under Pump.
Sucker tube (Zo["o]l.), one of the external ambulacral
tubes of an echinoderm, -- usually terminated by a sucker
and used for locomotion. Called also sucker foot. See
Spatangoid. Micropogon undulatusCroaker Croak"er (-?r), n.
1. One who croaks, murmurs, grumbles, or complains
unreasonably; one who habitually forebodes evil.
2. (Zo["o]l.)
(a) A small American fish (Micropogon undulatus), of the
Atlantic coast.
(a) An American fresh-water fish (Aplodinotus
grunniens); -- called also drum.
(c) The surf fish of California.
Note: When caught these fishes make a croaking sound; whence
the name, which is often corrupted into crocus. ModulateModulate Mod"u*late, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Modulated; p. pr. &
vb. n. Modulating.] [L. modulatus, p. p. of modulari to
measure, to modulate, fr. modulus a small measure, meter,
melody, dim. of modus. See Mode.]
1. To form, as sound, to a certain key, or to a certain
portion.
2. To vary or inflect in a natural, customary, or musical
manner; as, the organs of speech modulate the voice in
reading or speaking.
Could any person so modulate her voice as to deceive
so many? --Broome. Modulate
Modulate Mod"u*late, v. i. (Mus.)
To pass from one key into another.
ModulatedModulate Mod"u*late, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Modulated; p. pr. &
vb. n. Modulating.] [L. modulatus, p. p. of modulari to
measure, to modulate, fr. modulus a small measure, meter,
melody, dim. of modus. See Mode.]
1. To form, as sound, to a certain key, or to a certain
portion.
2. To vary or inflect in a natural, customary, or musical
manner; as, the organs of speech modulate the voice in
reading or speaking.
Could any person so modulate her voice as to deceive
so many? --Broome. ModulatingModulate Mod"u*late, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Modulated; p. pr. &
vb. n. Modulating.] [L. modulatus, p. p. of modulari to
measure, to modulate, fr. modulus a small measure, meter,
melody, dim. of modus. See Mode.]
1. To form, as sound, to a certain key, or to a certain
portion.
2. To vary or inflect in a natural, customary, or musical
manner; as, the organs of speech modulate the voice in
reading or speaking.
Could any person so modulate her voice as to deceive
so many? --Broome. Modulation
Modulation Mod`u*la"tion, n. [L. modulatio: cf. F.
modulation.]
1. The act of modulating, or the state of being modulated;
as, the modulation of the voice.
2. Sound modulated; melody. [R.] --Thomson.
3. (Mus.) A change of key, whether transient, or until the
music becomes established in the new key; a shifting of
the tonality of a piece, so that the harmonies all center
upon a new keynote or tonic; the art of transition out of
the original key into one nearly related, and so on, it
may be, by successive changes, into a key quite remote.
There are also sudden and unprepared modulations.
Modulator
Modulator Mod"u*la`tor, n. [L.]
One who, or that which, modulates. --Denham.
Natural modulation 10. (Mus.)
(a) Produced by natural organs, as those of the human
throat, in distinction from instrumental music.
(b) Of or pertaining to a key which has neither a flat
nor a sharp for its signature, as the key of C major.
(c) Applied to an air or modulation of harmony which
moves by easy and smooth transitions, digressing but
little from the original key. --Moore (Encyc. of
Music).
Natural day, the space of twenty-four hours. --Chaucer.
Natural fats, Natural gas, etc. See under Fat, Gas.
etc.
Natural Harmony (Mus.), the harmony of the triad or common
chord.
Natural history, in its broadest sense, a history or
description of nature as a whole, incuding the sciences of
botany, zo["o]logy, geology, mineralogy,
paleontology, chemistry, and physics. In recent
usage the term is often restricted to the sciences of
botany and zo["o]logy collectively, and sometimes to the
science of zoology alone.
Natural law, that instinctive sense of justice and of right
and wrong, which is native in mankind, as distinguished
from specifically revealed divine law, and formulated
human law.
Natural modulation (Mus.), transition from one key to its
relative keys.
Natural order. (Nat. Hist.) See under order.
Natural person. (Law) See under person, n.
Natural philosophy, originally, the study of nature in
general; in modern usage, that branch of physical science,
commonly called physics, which treats of the phenomena
and laws of matter and considers those effects only which
are unaccompanied by any change of a chemical nature; --
contrasted with mental and moral philosophy.
Natural scale (Mus.), a scale which is written without
flats or sharps. Model would be a preferable term, as less
likely to mislead, the so-called artificial scales (scales
represented by the use of flats and sharps) being equally
natural with the so-called natural scale
Natural science, natural history, in its broadest sense; --
used especially in contradistinction to mental or moral
science.
Natural selection (Biol.), a supposed operation of natural
laws analogous, in its operation and results, to designed
selection in breeding plants and animals, and resulting in
the survival of the fittest. The theory of natural
selection supposes that this has been brought about mainly
by gradual changes of environment which have led to
corresponding changes of structure, and that those forms
which have become so modified as to be best adapted to the
changed environment have tended to survive and leave
similarly adapted descendants, while those less perfectly
adapted have tended to die out though lack of fitness for
the environment, thus resulting in the survival of the
fittest. See Darwinism.
Natural system (Bot. & Zo["o]l.), a classification based
upon real affinities, as shown in the structure of all
parts of the organisms, and by their embryology.
It should be borne in mind that the natural system
of botany is natural only in the constitution of its
genera, tribes, orders, etc., and in its grand
divisions. --Gray.
Natural theology, or Natural religion, that part of
theological science which treats of those evidences of the
existence and attributes of the Supreme Being which are
exhibited in nature; -- distinguished from revealed
religion. See Quotation under Natural, a., 3.
Natural vowel, the vowel sound heard in urn, furl, sir,
her, etc.; -- so called as being uttered in the easiest
open position of the mouth organs. See Neutral vowel,
under Neutral and Guide to Pronunciation, [sect] 17.
Syn: See Native. NidulateNidulate Nid"u*late, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Nidulated; p. pr. &
vb. n. Nidulating.] [L. nidulari, fr. nidulus, dim. of
nidus a nest.]
To make a nest, as a bird. [R.] --Cockeram. NidulatedNidulate Nid"u*late, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Nidulated; p. pr. &
vb. n. Nidulating.] [L. nidulari, fr. nidulus, dim. of
nidus a nest.]
To make a nest, as a bird. [R.] --Cockeram. NidulatingNidulate Nid"u*late, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Nidulated; p. pr. &
vb. n. Nidulating.] [L. nidulari, fr. nidulus, dim. of
nidus a nest.]
To make a nest, as a bird. [R.] --Cockeram. Nidulation
Nidulation Nid`u*la"tion, n.
The time of remaining in the nest. [R.] --Sir T. Browne.
Oxidulated
Oxidulated Ox*id"u*la`ted, a. (Chem.)
Existing in the state of a protoxide; -- said of an oxide.
[R.]
Pendulate
Pendulate Pen"du*late, v. i.
To swing as a pendulum. [R.]
Q undulataScrub Scrub, n.
1. One who labors hard and lives meanly; a mean fellow. ``A
sorry scrub.' --Bunyan.
We should go there in as proper a manner possible;
nor altogether like the scrubs about us.
--Goldsmith.
2. Something small and mean.
3. A worn-out brush. --Ainsworth.
4. A thicket or jungle, often specified by the name of the
prevailing plant; as, oak scrub, palmetto scrub, etc.
5. (Stock Breeding) One of the common live stock of a region
of no particular breed or not of pure breed, esp. when
inferior in size, etc. [U.S.]
Scrub bird (Zo["o]l.), an Australian passerine bird of the
family Atrichornithid[ae], as Atrichia clamosa; --
called also brush bird.
Scrub oak (Bot.), the popular name of several dwarfish
species of oak. The scrub oak of New England and the
Middle States is Quercus ilicifolia, a scraggy shrub;
that of the Southern States is a small tree (Q.
Catesb[ae]i); that of the Rocky Mountain region is Q.
undulata, var. Gambelii.
Scrub robin (Zo["o]l.), an Australian singing bird of the
genus Drymodes. Q undulataOak Oak ([=o]k), n. [OE. oke, ok, ak, AS. [=a]c; akin to D.
eik, G. eiche, OHG. eih, Icel. eik, Sw. ek, Dan. eeg.]
1. (Bot.) Any tree or shrub of the genus Quercus. The oaks
have alternate leaves, often variously lobed, and
staminate flowers in catkins. The fruit is a smooth nut,
called an acorn, which is more or less inclosed in a
scaly involucre called the cup or cupule. There are now
recognized about three hundred species, of which nearly
fifty occur in the United States, the rest in Europe,
Asia, and the other parts of North America, a very few
barely reaching the northern parts of South America and
Africa. Many of the oaks form forest trees of grand
proportions and live many centuries. The wood is usually
hard and tough, and provided with conspicuous medullary
rays, forming the silver grain.
2. The strong wood or timber of the oak.
Note: Among the true oaks in America are:
Barren oak, or
Black-jack, Q. nigra.
Basket oak, Q. Michauxii.
Black oak, Q. tinctoria; -- called also yellow or
quercitron oak.
Bur oak (see under Bur.), Q. macrocarpa; -- called also
over-cup or mossy-cup oak.
Chestnut oak, Q. Prinus and Q. densiflora.
Chinquapin oak (see under Chinquapin), Q. prinoides.
Coast live oak, Q. agrifolia, of California; -- also
called enceno.
Live oak (see under Live), Q. virens, the best of all
for shipbuilding; also, Q. Chrysolepis, of California.
Pin oak. Same as Swamp oak.
Post oak, Q. obtusifolia.
Red oak, Q. rubra.
Scarlet oak, Q. coccinea.
Scrub oak, Q. ilicifolia, Q. undulata, etc.
Shingle oak, Q. imbricaria.
Spanish oak, Q. falcata.
Swamp Spanish oak, or
Pin oak, Q. palustris.
Swamp white oak, Q. bicolor.
Water oak, Q. aguatica.
Water white oak, Q. lyrata.
Willow oak, Q. Phellos. Among the true oaks in Europe
are:
Bitter oak, or
Turkey oak, Q. Cerris (see Cerris).
Cork oak, Q. Suber.
English white oak, Q. Robur.
Evergreen oak,
Holly oak, or
Holm oak, Q. Ilex.
Kermes oak, Q. coccifera.
Nutgall oak, Q. infectoria.
Note: Among plants called oak, but not of the genus
Quercus, are:
African oak, a valuable timber tree (Oldfieldia
Africana).
Australian, or She, oak, any tree of the genus
Casuarina (see Casuarina).
Indian oak, the teak tree (see Teak).
Jerusalem oak. See under Jerusalem.
New Zealand oak, a sapindaceous tree (Alectryon
excelsum).
Poison oak, the poison ivy. See under Poison. Sceloporus undulatusPine Pine, n. [AS. p[=i]n, L. pinus.]
1. (Bot.) Any tree of the coniferous genus Pinus. See
Pinus.
Note: There are about twenty-eight species in the United
States, of which the white pine (P. Strobus), the
Georgia pine (P. australis), the red pine (P.
resinosa), and the great West Coast sugar pine (P.
Lambertiana) are among the most valuable. The Scotch
pine or fir, also called Norway or Riga pine
(Pinus sylvestris), is the only British species. The
nut pine is any pine tree, or species of pine, which
bears large edible seeds. See Pinon. The spruces,
firs, larches, and true cedars, though formerly
considered pines, are now commonly assigned to other
genera.
2. The wood of the pine tree.
3. A pineapple.
Ground pine. (Bot.) See under Ground.
Norfolk Island pine (Bot.), a beautiful coniferous tree,
the Araucaria excelsa.
Pine barren, a tract of infertile land which is covered
with pines. [Southern U.S.]
Pine borer (Zo["o]l.), any beetle whose larv[ae] bore into
pine trees.
Pine finch. (Zo["o]l.) See Pinefinch, in the Vocabulary.
Pine grosbeak (Zo["o]l.), a large grosbeak (Pinicola
enucleator), which inhabits the northern parts of both
hemispheres. The adult male is more or less tinged with
red.
Pine lizard (Zo["o]l.), a small, very active, mottled gray
lizard (Sceloporus undulatus), native of the Middle
States; -- called also swift, brown scorpion, and
alligator.
Pine marten. (Zo["o]l.)
(a) A European weasel (Mustela martes), called also
sweet marten, and yellow-breasted marten.
(b) The American sable. See Sable.
Pine moth (Zo["o]l.), any one of several species of small
tortricid moths of the genus Retinia, whose larv[ae]
burrow in the ends of the branchlets of pine trees, often
doing great damage.
Pine mouse (Zo["o]l.), an American wild mouse (Arvicola
pinetorum), native of the Middle States. It lives in pine
forests.
Pine needle (Bot.), one of the slender needle-shaped leaves
of a pine tree. See Pinus.
Pine-needle wool. See Pine wool (below).
Pine oil, an oil resembling turpentine, obtained from fir
and pine trees, and used in making varnishes and colors.
Pine snake (Zo["o]l.), a large harmless North American
snake (Pituophis melanoleucus). It is whitish, covered
with brown blotches having black margins. Called also
bull snake. The Western pine snake (P. Sayi) is
chestnut-brown, mottled with black and orange.
Pine tree (Bot.), a tree of the genus Pinus; pine.
Pine-tree money, money coined in Massachusetts in the
seventeenth century, and so called from its bearing a
figure of a pine tree.
Pine weevil (Zo["o]l.), any one of numerous species of
weevils whose larv[ae] bore in the wood of pine trees.
Several species are known in both Europe and America,
belonging to the genera Pissodes, Hylobius, etc.
Pine wool, a fiber obtained from pine needles by steaming
them. It is prepared on a large scale in some of the
Southern United States, and has many uses in the economic
arts; -- called also pine-needle wool, and pine-wood
wool. StridulateStridulate Strid"u*late, v. t. [See Stridulous.]
To make a shrill, creaking noise; specifically (Zo["o]l.), to
make a shrill or musical sound, such as is made by the males
of many insects. Stridulation
Stridulation Strid`u*la"tion, n.
The act of stridulating. Specifically: (Zo["o]l.)
(a) The act of making shrill sounds or musical notes by
rubbing together certain hard parts, as is done by the
males of many insects, especially by Orthoptera, such as
crickets, grasshoppers, and locusts.
(b) The noise itself.
Note: The crickets stridulate by rubbing together the strong
nervures of the fore wings. Many grasshoppers
stridulate by rubbing the hind legs across strong
nervures on the fore wings. The green grasshoppers and
katydids stridulate by means of special organs at the
base of the fore wings.
Stridulator
Stridulator Strid"u*la`tor, n. [NL.]
That which stridulates. --Darwin.
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Amarjit Singh Dulat (born 1940) was a
spymaster and a
former special director of the
Indian Intelligence Bureau and
former Secretary of
Research and Analysis...
- The
Dughlat clan (Kazakh: Дулат,
Dulat, lit. 'ruthless or
fierce warrior'; Mongolian: Dolood/sevens, Doloo/seven;
Middle Mongolian: Doluga, Dolugad; Dulğat;...
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Dulat Shakiruly Agadil (Kazakh: Дулат Шәкірұлы Ағаділ, romanized:
Dulat Şäkırūly Ağadıl; 16
February 1977 – 25
February 2020) was a
Kazakh civil and human...
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dialogue between two
intelligence chiefs of
India and ****stan, AS
Dulat and Asad Durrani, and
moderated by
Aditya Sinha. The
conversations between...
- departed. Later, it was
revealed that
there were
efforts by ex-RAW
chief A. S.
Dulat and
others to
cover up the real
motives of why the
plane was not immobilised...
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Since 1947: The
Independent Years, Penguin, p. 282, ISBN 9789352140893
Dulat,
Amarjeet Singh (2015). Kashmir: The
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Harper Collins....
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literal footsteps, a less
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ordinary sense.
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Illusion of Peace", co-aut****d with a
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first work of
fiction was "The CEO Who...
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Retrieved 7 May 2018. "The
Sunday Story: A show of hands".
March 2015. "
Dulat disclosures". Masroor,
Shujaat Bukhari and
Riyaz (4
April 2016). "Kashmir's...
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Secretary of
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Analysis Wing In
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