cephalotcephaloten.
/ˈsɛfəlɒt//ˈsɛfələʊt/ Chemistry.
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‘A name applied by Couerbe to a yellow elastic fatty substance, insoluble in alcohol, but soluble in ether, which he obtained from the brain’ (Watts Dict. Chem.).
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n.- to give a person swinge
- to give a person the air
- to give a person the bauble
- to give a person the big e
- to give a person the bird
- to give a person the black spot
- to give a person the boot or the order of the boot
- to give a person the bothered ear
- to give a person the bum's rush
- to give a person the bumps
- to give a person the business
- to give a person the dingbats
- to give a person the double-cross
- to give a person the doublecross
- to give a person the dunt
- to give a person the elbow
- to give a person the eye
- to give a person the eyeball
- to give a person the fig
- to give a person the finger
- to give a person the foil
- to give a person the foot
- to give a person the fuzzies
- to give a person the gang-by
- to give a person the gangby