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- Reduced - imp. & p. p. - of Reduce
- Unalloyed - a. - Not alloyed; not reduced by foreign admixture; unmixed; unqualified; pure; as, unalloyed metals; unalloyed happiness.
- Invillaged - p. a. - Turned into, or reduced to, a village.
- Humiliation - n. - The state of being humiliated, humbled, or reduced to lowliness or submission.
- Paper - n. - A substance in the form of thin sheets or leaves intended to be written or printed on, or to be used in wrapping. It is made of rags, straw, bark, wood, or other fibrous material, which is first reduced to pulp, then molded, pressed, and dried.
- Vacuum - n. - A space entirely devoid of matter (called also, by way of distinction, absolute vacuum); hence, in a more general sense, a space, as the interior of a closed vessel, which has been exhausted to a high or the highest degree by an air pump or other artificial means; as, water boils at a reduced temperature in a vacuum.
- Disintegrable - a. - Capable of being disintegrated, or reduced to fragments or powder.
- Theriaca - n. - An ancient composition esteemed efficacious against the effects of poison; especially, a certain compound of sixty-four drugs, prepared, pulverized, and reduced by means of honey to an electuary; -- called also theriaca Andromachi, and Venice treacle.
- Tared - a. - Weighed; determined; reduced to equal or standard weight; as, tared filter papers, used in weighing precipitates.
- Reduce - n. - To bring to the metallic state by separating from impurities; hence, in general, to remove oxygen from; to deoxidize; to combine with, or to subject to the action of, hydrogen; as, ferric iron is reduced to ferrous iron; or metals are reduced from their ores; -- opposed to oxidize.
- Limekiln - n. - A kiln or furnace in which limestone or shells are burned and reduced to lime.
- Detritus - n. - A mass of substances worn off from solid bodies by attrition, and reduced to small portions; as, diluvial detritus.
- Crudity - n. - That which is in a crude or undigested state; hence, superficial, undigested views, not reduced to order or form.
- Bort - n. - Imperfectly crystallized or coarse diamonds, or fragments made in cutting good diamonds which are reduced to powder and used in lapidary work.
- Powder-posted - a. - Affected with dry rot; reduced to dust by rot. See Dry rot, under Dry.
- Torrefy - v. t. - To dry or parch, as drugs, on a metallic plate till they are friable, or are reduced to the state desired.
- Mealy - superl. - Having the qualities of meal; resembling meal; soft, dry, and friable; easily reduced to a condition resembling meal; as, a mealy potato.
- Pantograph - n. - An instrument for copying plans, maps, and other drawings, on the same, or on a reduced or an enlarged, scale.
- Incompressible - a. - Not compressible; incapable of being reduced by force or pressure into a smaller compass or volume; resisting compression; as, many liquids and solids appear to be almost incompressible.
- Uranium - n. - An element of the chromium group, found in certain rare minerals, as pitchblende, uranite, etc., and reduced as a heavy, hard, nickel-white metal which is quite permanent. Its yellow oxide is used to impart to glass a delicate greenish-yellow tint which is accompanied by a strong fluorescence, and its black oxide is used as a pigment in porcelain painting. Symbol U. Atomic weight 239.
- Summary - a. - Formed into a sum; summed up; reduced into a narrow compass, or into few words; short; brief; concise; compendious; as, a summary statement of facts.
- Mash - n. - A mass of mixed ingredients reduced to a soft pulpy state by beating or pressure; a mass of anything in a soft pulpy state. Specifically (Brewing), ground or bruised malt, or meal of rye, wheat, corn, or other grain (or a mixture of malt and meal) steeped and stirred in hot water for making the wort.
- Catechism - n. - A book containing a summary of principles, especially of religious doctrine, reduced to the form of questions and answers.
- Rolling-pin - n. - A cylindrical piece of wood or other material, with which paste or dough may be rolled out and reduced to a proper thickness.
- Decomposition - n. - The state of being reduced into original elements.
- Negative - n. - A picture upon glass or other material, in which the light portions of the original are represented in some opaque material (usually reduced silver), and the dark portions by the uncovered and transparent or semitransparent ground of the picture.