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81nod|ule — «NOJ ool», noun. 1. a small knot, knob, or swelling. 2. a small, rounded mass or lump: »nodules of pure gold. 3. Botany. a small swelling on the roots of certain plants, mostly legumes, that contains symbiotic nitrogen fixing bacteria. ╂[<… …
82pap|ule — «PAP yool», noun. a pimple that does not form pus. ╂[< Latin papula a swelling, pimple] …
83pil|ule — «PIHL yool», noun. a pill, especially a small pill. ╂[< Middle French pilule, learned borrowing from Latin pilula pill] …
84re|sched|ule — «ree SKEHJ ul; especially British or Canadian ree SHEHD yool», transitive verb, uled, ul|ing. 1. to schedule again or anew; set a new time for: »The conference has been rescheduled to begin here on October 28th (New York Times). 2. to put on a… …
85re|sol´ule|ness — re|sol|u|ble1 «ruh ZOL yuh buhl, REHZ uh luh », adjective. that can be resolved; resolvable: »The distinctiveness of all that which we call brogue, accent, etc., is ultimately resoluble into a specialty of modulation (John Earle). ╂[< Late… …
86sched|ule — «SKEHJ ul; especially British or Canadian SHEHD yool», noun, verb, uled, ul|ing. –n. 1. a written or printed statement of details; list: »A timetable is a schedule of the coming and going of airplanes, trains, or buses. The teacher posted the… …
87spat|ule — «SPACH ul», noun. 1. = spatula. (Cf. ↑spatula) 2. Zoology. a spatulate formation or part, as at the end of the tail feathers of a bird. ╂[< French spatule < Late Latin spatula] …
88spher|ule — «SFEHR ool», noun. a small sphere or spherical body. ╂[< Late Latin sphērula (diminutive) < sphēra sphere] …
89spic|ule — «SPIHK yool», noun. 1. a small, slender, sharp pointed piece usually bony or crystalline. 2. one of such pieces that form the skeleton of a sponge. 3. a small spike of flowers; spikelet. 4. a small solar prominence. ╂[< Latin spīculum; see… …
90spin|ner|ule — «SPIHN uhr ool», noun. any one of a number of tubules on the spinneret of a spider. Silk in liquid form flows through the spinnerules from silk glands in the spider s abdomen to the outside of the body. The silk then hardens into a thread …
