Function: noun

1 : a little man : manikin

2 : a miniature adult that in the theory of preformation is held to inhabit the germ cell and to produce a mature individual merely by an increase in size

Function: adjective

: of intermediate size; especially : of or relating to a meteorological phenomenon approximately 10 to 1000 kilometers in horizontal extent

Function: adjective

: pertaining to a personality type in which mild symptoms of schizophrenia are present

Function: adjective

1 : growing or produced by growth from deep tissue

2 a : caused by factors inside the organism or system b : produced or synthesized within the organism or system

Function: adjective

: being a usually artificial and inferior substitute or imitation

Function: noun

1 : any of various soluble astringent complex phenolic substances of plant origin used especially in tanning leather and dyeing fabric, manufacturing ink, clarifying wine and beer, and in medicine

2 : a substance that has a tanning effect

Function: adjective

: of, relating to, or being the practice or art of training, cutting, and trimming trees or shrubs into odd or ornamental shapes; also : characterized by such work

Function: verb

transitive verb

1 : to dry up

2 : to preserve (a food) by drying : dehydrate

3 : to drain of emotional or intellectual vitality

intransitive verb

: to become dried up

Function: noun

: the apparent displacement or the difference in apparent direction of an object as seen from two different points not on a straight line with the object; especially : the angular difference in direction of a celestial body as measured from two points on the Earth’s orbit

Function: noun

: a hereditary disorder of metabolism involving the deposition of iron-containing pigments in the tissues that is characterized especially by joint or abdominal pain, weakness, and fatigue and that may lead to bronzing of the skin, arthritis, diabetes, cirrhosis, or heart disease if untreated

Function: noun

: the prominence in front of the external opening of the outer ear

Function: noun

: a prominence on the lower posterior portion of the concha of the external ear opposite the the tragus

Function: noun

1 : accommodations especially at a continental European hotel or boardinghouse : room and board

2 : a hotel or boardinghouse especially in continental Europe

Function: noun

1 : an adherent of a 17th and 18th century movement professing esoteric and occult wisdom with emphasis on mysticism and spiritual enlightenment

2 : a member of one of several organizations held to be descended from the Rosicrucians

Function: noun

: a form of synchronicity in which one happens upon an obscure piece of information and soon afterward encounters the same subject again

Function: noun

: a hairy or downy surface (as on a fabric)

Function: noun

: a congenital or acquired usually highly pigmented area on the skin that is either flat or raised : mole

Function: adjective

: relating to the property of a substance in which there is no definite relation between stress and strain

Function: biographical name

: Carl Friedrich 1777 – 1855, German mathematician and astronomer

Function: trademark

: a supercomputer manufacturer based in Seattle, Washington

Function: noun

: a prolonged lamentation or complaint; also : a cautionary or angry harangue

Function: noun

: a purely melodic electronic musical instrument typically played by moving the hands in the electromagnetic fields surrounding two projecting antennae

Function: adjective

: relating to or being a wind produced by the flow of cold dense air down a slope (as of a mountain or glacier) in an area subject to radiational cooling

Function: noun

1 a : a word or saying used by adherents of a party, sect, or belief and usually regarded by others as empty of real meaning b : a widely held belief c : truism, platitude

2 a : a use of language regarded as distinctive of a particular group b : a custom or usage regarded as distinguishing one group from others

Function: noun

1 : member of a South American Indian people formerly inhabiting most of Patagonia, with a small present-day population in southern Argentina

2 : the language of the Tehuelche

Function: noun

: an area of necrosis in a tissue or organ resulting from obstruction of the local circulation by a thrombus or embolus

Function: noun

: the act or process of swallowing

Function: noun

1 : cause, origin; specifically : the cause of a disease or abnormal condition

2 : a branch of knowledge concerned with causes; specifically : a branch of medical science concerned with the causes and origins of diseases

Function: adjective

1 a : given to or abounding in aphoristic expression b : given to or abounding in excessive moralizing

2 : terse, aphoristic, or moralistic in expression : pithy, epigrammatic

Function: noun

: infection of the central nervous system with cysticerci of the pork tapeworm

Function: verb

transitive verb

1 : to make thin or slender

2 : to make thin in consistency : rarefy

3 : to lessen the amount, force, magnitude, or value of : weaken

4 : to reduce the severity, virulence, or vitality of

: to become thin, fine, or less

Function: noun

: an optical instrument with two eyepieces for helping the observer to combine the images of two pictures taken from points of view a little way apart and thus to get the effect of solidity or depth

Function: verb

intransitive verb

: to raise trivial and frivolous objection

transitive verb

: to raise trivial objections to

Function: noun

1 : origin, source

2 : the history of ownership of a valued object or work of art or literature

Function: noun

1 a : a usually continuous central strand of spongy tissue in the stems of most vascular plants that probably functions chiefly in storage b : any of various loose spongy plant tissues that resemble true pith c : the soft or spongy interior of a part of the body

2 a : the essential part : core b : substantial quality (as of meaning)

3 : importance