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  • 111painting — /payn ting/, n. 1. a picture or design executed in paints. 2. the act, art, or work of a person who paints. 3. the works of art painted in a particular manner, place, or period: a book on Flemish painting. 4. an instance of covering a surface… …

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  • 112steel — steellike, adj. /steel/, n. 1. any of various modified forms of iron, artificially produced, having a carbon content less than that of pig iron and more than that of wrought iron, and having qualities of hardness, elasticity, and strength varying …

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  • 113Japan — • Called in the language of the country Nihon or Nippon (Land of the Rising Sun), and Dai Nihon or Dai Nippon (Great Japan), situated north west of the Pacific Ocean and east of the Asiatic continent Catholic Encyclopedia. Kevin Knight. 2006.… …

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  • 114forceps — [ fɔ:sɛps, sɪps] (also a pair of forceps) plural noun a pair of pincers used in surgery or in a laboratory. ↘a large instrument of such a type with broad blades, used to assist in the delivery of a baby. Origin C16: from L., tongs, pincers …

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  • 115Dressing forceps — Forceps For ceps, n. [L. forceps, cipis, from the root of formus Hot + capere to take; akin to E. heave. Cf. {Furnace}.] 1. A pair of pinchers, or tongs; an instrument for grasping, holding firmly, or exerting traction upon, bodies which it would …

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  • 116Forceps — For ceps, n. [L. forceps, cipis, from the root of formus Hot + capere to take; akin to E. heave. Cf. {Furnace}.] 1. A pair of pinchers, or tongs; an instrument for grasping, holding firmly, or exerting traction upon, bodies which it would be… …

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  • 117Tenaille — Te*naille , n. [F., a pair of pincers or tongs, a tenaille, fr. L. tenaculum. See {Tenaculum}.] (Fort.) An outwork in the main ditch, in front of the curtain, between two bastions. See Illust. of {Ravelin}. [1913 Webster] …

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  • 118Tue-irons — Tue i rons, n. pl. A pair of blacksmith s tongs. [1913 Webster] …

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  • 119Apollo 11 — Infobox Space mission mission name = Apollo 11 insignia = Apollo 11 insignia.png stats ref =cite web |url=http://history.nasa.gov/SP 4029/Apollo 00g Table of Contents.htm |title= Apollo by the Numbers: A Statistical Reference (SP 4029)… …

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