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- Exposure - n. - The act of exposing or laying open, setting forth, laying bare of protection, depriving of care or concealment, or setting out to reprobation or contempt.
- Exposure - n. - The state of being exposed or laid open or bare; openness to danger; accessibility to anything that may affect, especially detrimentally; as, exposure to observation, to cold, to inconvenience.
- Exposure - n. - Position as to points of compass, or to influences of climate, etc.
- Exposure - n. - The exposing of a sensitized plate to the action of light.
- Plight - n. - Condition; state; -- risk, or exposure to danger, often being implied; as, a luckless plight.
- Phototonus - n. - A motile condition in plants resulting from exposure to light.
- Chlorination - n. - The act or process of subjecting anything to the action of chlorine; especially, a process for the extraction of gold by exposure of the auriferous material to chlorine gas.
- Trial - n. - The state of being tried or tempted; exposure to suffering that tests strength, patience, faith, or the like; affliction or temptation that exercises and proves the graces or virtues of men.
- Barbecue - v. t. - To dry or cure by exposure on a frame or gridiron.
- Risk - n. - Hazard; danger; peril; exposure to loss, injury, or destruction.
- Shame - n. - A painful sensation excited by a consciousness of guilt or impropriety, or of having done something which injures reputation, or of the exposure of that which nature or modesty prompts us to conceal.
- Satire - a. - Keeness and severity of remark; caustic exposure to reprobation; trenchant wit; sarcasm.
- Weatherworn - a. - Worn by the action of, or by exposure to, the weather.
- Ventilation - n. - The act of ventilating, or the state of being ventilated; the art or process of replacing foul air by that which is pure, in any inclosed place, as a house, a church, a mine, etc.; free exposure to air.
- Defilading - n. - The art or act of determining the directions and heights of the lines of rampart with reference to the protection of the interior from exposure to an enemy's fire from any point within range, or from any works which may be erected.
- Parelectronomy - n. - A condition of the muscles induced by exposure to severe cold, in which the electrical action of the muscle is reversed.
- Actinium - n. - A supposed metal, said by Phipson to be contained in commercial zinc; -- so called because certain of its compounds are darkened by exposure to light.
- Cerargyrite - n. - Native silver chloride, a mineral of a white to pale yellow or gray color, darkening on exposure to the light. It may be cut by a knife, like lead or horn (hence called horn silver).
- Linoleum - n. - Linseed oil brought to various degrees of hardness by some oxidizing process, as by exposure to heated air, or by treatment with chloride of sulphur. In this condition it is used for many of the purposes to which India rubber has been applied.
- Effloresce - v. i. - To change on the surface, or throughout, to a whitish, mealy, or crystalline powder, from a gradual decomposition, esp. from the loss of water, on simple exposure to the air; as, Glauber's salts, and many others, effloresce.
- Weathered - a. - Having the surface altered in color, texture, or composition, or the edges rounded off by exposure to the elements.
- Arterialize - v. t. - To transform, as the venous blood, into arterial blood by exposure to oxygen in the lungs; to make arterial.
- Secure - v. t. - To make safe; to relieve from apprehensions of, or exposure to, danger; to guard; to protect.
- Dewrot - v. t. - To rot, as flax or hemp, by exposure to rain, dew, and sun. See Dewretting.
- Sale - v. t. - Public disposal to the highest bidder, or exposure of goods in market; auction.
- Aeration - n. - A change produced in the blood by exposure to the air in respiration; oxygenation of the blood in respiration; arterialization.
- Graduator - n. - An apparatus for diffusing a solution, as brine or vinegar, over a large surface, for exposure to the air.
- Cold - n. - A morbid state of the animal system produced by exposure to cold or dampness; a catarrh.
- Roast - v. t. - To dry and parch by exposure to heat; as, to roast coffee; to roast chestnuts, or peanuts.
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- G4716 σταυρός - 4716 σταυρός - ΣΤΑΥΡΌΣ - - staurós - stow-ros' - from the base of ἵστημι; a stake or post (as set upright), i.e. (specially), a pole or cross (as an instrument of capital punishment); figuratively, exposure to death, i.e. self-denial; by implication, the atonement of Christ:--cross. - Noun Masculine - greek