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- Allusion - n. - A figurative or symbolical reference.
- Allusion - n. - A reference to something supposed to be known, but not explicitly mentioned; a covert indication; indirect reference; a hint.
- Testudo - n. - A kind of musical instrument. a species of lyre; -- so called in allusion to the lyre of Mercury, fabled to have been made of the shell of a tortoise.
- Myzostomata - n. pl. - An order of curious parasitic worms found on crinoids. The body is short and disklike, with four pairs of suckers and five pairs of hook-bearing parapodia on the under side. N () the fourteenth letter of English alphabet, is a vocal consonent, and, in allusion to its mode of formation, is called the dentinasal or linguanasal consonent. Its commoner sound is that heard in ran, done; but when immediately followed in the same word by the sound of g hard or k (as in single, sink, conquer), it usually represents the same sound as the digraph ng in sing, bring, etc. This is a simple but related sound, and is called the gutturo-nasal consonent. See Guide to Pronunciation, // 243-246.
- Rib - n. - A wife; -- in allusion to Eve, as made out of Adam's rib.
- Innuendo - n. - An oblique hint; a remote allusion or reference, usually derogatory to a person or thing not named; an insinuation.
- Washerwoman - n. - The pied wagtail; -- so called in allusion to its beating the water with its tail while tripping along the leaves of water plants.
- Buttons - n. - A boy servant, or page, -- in allusion to the buttons on his livery.
- Agate - n. - A diminutive person; so called in allusion to the small figures cut in agate for rings and seals.
- Redshank - n. - A bare-legged person; -- a contemptuous appellation formerly given to the Scotch Highlanders, in allusion to their bare legs.
- Mosstrooper - n. - One of a class of marauders or bandits that formerly infested the border country between England and Scotland; -- so called in allusion to the mossy or boggy character of much of the border country.
- Polychrome - n. - Esculin; -- so called in allusion to its fluorescent solutions.
- Magenta - n. - An aniline dye obtained as an amorphous substance having a green bronze surface color, which dissolves to a shade of red; also, the color; -- so called from Magenta, in Italy, in allusion to the battle fought there about the time the dye was discovered. Called also fuchsine, roseine, etc.
- Balaam - n. - A paragraph describing something wonderful, used to fill out a newspaper column; -- an allusion to the miracle of Balaam's ass speaking.
- Disthene - n. - Cyanite or kyanite; -- so called in allusion to its unequal hardness in two different directions. See Cyanite.
- Bubbling Jock - - The male wild turkey, the gobbler; -- so called in allusion to its notes.
- Boy - v. t. - To act as a boy; -- in allusion to the former practice of boys acting women's parts on the stage.
- Ape - n. - One who imitates servilely (in allusion to the manners of the ape); a mimic.
- Oligist - a. - Hematite or specular iron ore; -- prob. so called in allusion to its feeble magnetism, as compared with magnetite.
- Laurinol - n. - Ordinary camphor; -- so called in allusion to the family name (Lauraceae) of the camphor trees. See Camphor.
- Rytina - n. - A genus of large edentulous sirenians, allied to the dugong and manatee, including but one species (R. Stelleri); -- called also Steller's sea cow. S () the nineteenth letter of the English alphabet, is a consonant, and is often called a sibilant, in allusion to its hissing sound. It has two principal sounds; one a mere hissing, as in sack, this; the other a vocal hissing (the same as that of z), as in is, wise. Besides these it sometimes has the sounds of sh and zh, as in sure, measure. It generally has its hissing sound at the beginning of words, but in the middle and at the end of words its sound is determined by usage. In a few words it is silent, as in isle, debris. With the letter h it forms the digraph sh. See Guide to pronunciation, // 255-261.
- Black hole - - A dungeon or dark cell in a prison; a military lock-up or guardroom; -- now commonly with allusion to the cell (the Black Hole) in a fort at Calcutta, into which 146 English prisoners were thrust by the nabob Suraja Dowla on the night of June 20, 17656, and in which 123 of the prisoners died before morning from lack of air.
- Splenium - n. - The thickened posterior border of the corpus callosum; -- so called in allusion to its shape.
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- H3389 יְרוּשָׁלַ͏ִם - 3389 יְרוּשָׁלַ͏ִם - יְרוּשָׁלַ͏ִם - - Yᵉrûwshâlaim - yer-oo-shaw-lah'-im - rarely יְרוּשָׁלַיִם; a dual (in allusion to its two main hills (the true pointing, at least of the former reading, seems to be that of יְרוּשָׁלֵם)); probably from (the passive participle of) יָרָה and שָׁלַם; founded peaceful; Jerushalaim or Jerushalem, the capital city of Palestine; Jerusalem. - - x-pn