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- Important - v. t. - Full of, or burdened by, import; charged with great interests; restless; anxious.
- Important - v. t. - Carrying or possessing weight or consequence; of valuable content or bearing; significant; weighty.
- Important - v. t. - Bearing on; forcible; driving.
- Important - v. t. - Importunate; pressing; urgent.
- Importantly - adv. - In an important manner.
- Halma - n. - The long jump, with weights in the hands, -- the most important of the exercises of the Pentathlon.
- Stock - n. - The wood to which the barrel, lock, etc., of a musket or like firearm are secured; also, a long, rectangular piece of wood, which is an important part of several forms of gun carriage.
- Saiva - n. - One of an important religious sect in India which regards Siva with peculiar veneration.
- Appurtenant - a. - Annexed or pertaining to some more important thing; accessory; incident; as, a right of way appurtenant to land or buildings.
- Oration - n. - An elaborate discourse, delivered in public, treating an important subject in a formal and dignified manner; especially, a discourse having reference to some special occasion, as a funeral, an anniversary, a celebration, or the like; -- distinguished from an argument in court, a popular harangue, a sermon, a lecture, etc.; as, Webster's oration at Bunker Hill.
- Chlorine - n. - One of the elementary substances, commonly isolated as a greenish yellow gas, two and one half times as heavy as air, of an intensely disagreeable suffocating odor, and exceedingly poisonous. It is abundant in nature, the most important compound being common salt. It is powerful oxidizing, bleaching, and disinfecting agent. Symbol Cl. Atomic weight, 35.4.
- Cuprite - n. - The red oxide of copper; red copper; an important ore of copper, occurring massive and in isometric crystals.
- Lighthouse - n. - A tower or other building with a powerful light at top, erected at the entrance of a port, or at some important point on a coast, to serve as a guide to mariners at night; a pharos.
- Mainspring - n. - The principal or most important spring in a piece of mechanism, especially the moving spring of a watch or clock or the spring in a gunlock which impels the hammer. Hence: The chief or most powerful motive; the efficient cause of action.
- Substance - n. - The most important element in any existence; the characteristic and essential components of anything; the main part; essential import; purport.
- Shad - n. sing. & pl. - Any one of several species of food fishes of the Herring family. The American species (Clupea sapidissima), which is abundant on the Atlantic coast and ascends the larger rivers in spring to spawn, is an important market fish. The European allice shad, or alose (C. alosa), and the twaite shad. (C. finta), are less important species.
- Fasti - n.pl. - Records or registers of important events.
- Gelatine - n. - Animal jelly; glutinous material obtained from animal tissues by prolonged boiling. Specifically (Physiol. Chem.), a nitrogeneous colloid, not existing as such in the animal body, but formed by the hydrating action of boiling water on the collagen of various kinds of connective tissue (as tendons, bones, ligaments, etc.). Its distinguishing character is that of dissolving in hot water, and forming a jelly on cooling. It is an important ingredient of calf's-foot jelly, isinglass, glue, etc. It is used as food, but its nutritious qualities are of a low order.
- Nitrogen - n. - A colorless nonmetallic element, tasteless and odorless, comprising four fifths of the atmosphere by volume. It is chemically very inert in the free state, and as such is incapable of supporting life (hence the name azote still used by French chemists); but it forms many important compounds, as ammonia, nitric acid, the cyanides, etc, and is a constituent of all organized living tissues, animal or vegetable. Symbol N. Atomic weight 14. It was formerly regarded as a permanent noncondensible gas, but was liquefied in 1877 by Cailletet of Paris, and Pictet of Geneva.
- Anticlimax - n. - A sentence in which the ideas fall, or become less important and striking, at the close; -- the opposite of climax. It produces a ridiculous effect.
- Dispatch - v. t. - The act of sending a message or messenger in haste or on important business.
- Apophthegm - n. - A short, pithy, and instructive saying; a terse remark, conveying some important truth; a sententious precept or maxim.
- Reformation - n. - Specifically (Eccl. Hist.), the important religious movement commenced by Luther early in the sixteenth century, which resulted in the formation of the various Protestant churches.
- Spanaemia - n. - A condition of impoverishment of the blood; a morbid state in which the red corpuscles, or other important elements of the blood, are deficient.
- Point - n. - Hence, the most prominent or important feature, as of an argument, discourse, etc.; the essential matter; esp., the proposition to be established; as, the point of an anecdote.
- Isatin - n. - An orange-red crystalline substance, C8H5NO2, obtained by the oxidation of indigo blue. It is also produced from certain derivatives of benzoic acid, and is one important source of artificial indigo.
- Magnetite - n. - An oxide of iron (Fe3O4) occurring in isometric crystals, also massive, of a black color and metallic luster. It is readily attracted by a magnet and sometimes possesses polarity, being then called loadstone. It is an important iron ore. Called also magnetic iron.
- Leader - n. - A branch or small vein, not important in itself, but indicating the proximity of a better one.
- Cony - n. - An important edible West Indian fish (Epinephelus apua); the hind of Bermuda.
- Maxim - n. - An established principle or proposition; a condensed proposition of important practical truth; an axiom of practical wisdom; an adage; a proverb; an aphorism.
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