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A preparation containing quinine and many other ingredients, often used in the treatment of malarial affections. It was invented by Dr. Warburg of London.
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Of or pertaining to a natural order of plants, of which the violet is the type. It contains about twenty genera and two hundred and fifty species.
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Uttering or writing censure; containing, or characterized by, abuse; scolding; abusive.
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Bearing or containing vittae.
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Hence, a collection of printed sheets bound together, whether containing a single work, or a part of a work, or more than one work; a book; a tome; especially, that part of an extended work which is bound up together in one cover; as, a work in four volumes.
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Containing nothing; empty; vacant; not occupied; not filled.
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Having all the essential working parts connected by a bedplate or framework, or contained in a case, etc., so that mutual relations of the parts do not depend upon fastening outside of the machine itself.
p. pr. & vb. n.
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A tray, or basket, formerly used to receive or convey that which is voided or cleared away from a given place; especially, one for carrying off the remains of a meal, as fragments of food; sometimes, a basket for containing household articles, as clothes, etc.
n.
A constellation of the zodiac, now occupying chiefly the sign Libra, and containing the bright star Spica.
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Containing life; living.
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Containing no immaterial quality; destitute of mind or soul.
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n.
That which is contained; the extent; the substance.
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A container.
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One of the organs, as the brain, heart, or stomach, in the great cavities of the body of an animal; -- especially used in the plural, and applied to the organs contained in the abdomen.
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Capable of being contained or comprised.
v. t.
To have capacity for; to be able to hold; to hold; to be equivalent to; as, a bushel contains four pecks.
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One who, or that which, contains.
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Containing or exhibiting positive, or vitreous, electricity.
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