(obsolete) A medicine to which is attributed the property of causing abortion, abortifacient.
(obsolete) Someone or something born or brought forth prematurely; an abortion.
verb
(transitive, obsolete) To cause an abortion; to render without fruit.
bevomits
bevomits
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of bevomit
bivector
bivector
noun
(mathematics) An antisymmetric tensor of second rank.
bloviate
bloviate
verb
(intransitive, US) To speak or discourse at length in a pompous or boastful manner.
boastive
boastive
adj
(archaic) presumptuous
bonavist
bovarist
bovinity
bovinity
noun
The condition of being bovine.
bravoite
obviated
obviated
verb
simple past tense and past participle of obviate
obviates
obviates
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of obviate
obviator
obviator
noun
One who obviates.
overbait
overbite
overbite
noun
(dentistry) A malocclusion in which the upper teeth extend over the lower ones.
verb
To use excessive acid in an etching process, so that the result is too deep.
vibrator
vibrator
noun
(historical) A device designed to electromechanically interrupt current flowing to the step-up transformer which was used to generate the high tension positive supply in old battery-operated (automotive) valve radios.
(weaving) Any of various vibrating devices, such as one for slackening the warp as a shed opens.
A device for vibrating the pen of a siphon recorder to diminish frictional resistance on the paper.
A trembler, as of an electric bell.
A vibrating device used for massage or sexual stimulation.
A vibrating reed for transmitting or receiving pulsating currents in a harmonic telegraph system.
A vibrating reed in a musical instrument, especially a reed organ.
An attachment, usually pneumatic, in a moulding machine to shake the pattern loose.
An ink-distributing roller in a printing machine, having an additional vibratory motion.