(chemistry, obsolete) An element that in combination produces amphid salt; applied by Jöns Jacob Berzelius to oxygen, sulphur, selenium, and tellurium.
crimpage
crimpage
noun
Money paid to a crimp for shipping or enlisting men.
The act or practice of crimping, or entrapping soldiers or sailors into service.
empaling
empaling
verb
present participle of empale
epigamic
epigamic
adj
(zoology) Attractive to the opposite sex
epigrams
epigrams
noun
plural of epigram
mispaged
mispaged
verb
simple past tense and past participle of mispage
mispages
mispages
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of mispage
pegamoid
pegamoid
noun
A waterproof varnish used, applied to surfaces, in bookbinding and upholstery
imitation leather
pergamic
pigmaker
preimage
preimage
noun
(mathematics) For a given function, the set of all elements of the domain that are mapped into a given subset of the codomain; (formally) given a function ƒ : X → Y and a subset B ⊆ Y, the set ƒ⁻¹(B) = {x ∈ X : ƒ(x) ∈ B}.
primages
primages
noun
plural of primage
umpirage
umpirage
noun
(law, archaic) The office (or term of office) of an umpire
