tractatrixn.
/trakˈteɪtrɪks/ 1. A female shampooer. rare.
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the mind > attention and judgement > beautification > beautification of the person > beautification of the hair > barbers and hairdressers > [noun] > who shampoos
tractatrix1874
1874 M. Collins & F. Collins Frances II. 117 That stout Miss Susanetta, with her shrill voice, and her hands of the tractatrix, is a strange creature.
2. Geometry. = tractrix n.
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the world > relative properties > number > geometry > curve > [noun] > other
quadratrix1656
section1665
family1705
semiparabola1728
tractrix1728
witcha1760
tractory1820
sinusoid1823
tractatrix1828
indicatrix1841
hodograph1847
tetrazomal1867
space curve1875
horograph1879
hypercycle1889
Peano curve1900
multiple arc1967
unknot1971
fractal1975
analemma1978
1828 in N. Webster Amer. Dict. Eng. Lang. ; hence in later Dicts.
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n.1828- to take the floor
- to take the flour and leave the bran
- to take the foil
- to take the forfeit of
- to take the form of
- to take the freedom
- to take the freedom to do something
- to take the full count
- to take the gaff
- to take the gate
- to take the gauge of
- to take the gee
- to take the gilt off the gingerbread
- to spring as gleed
- to spring forth
- to spring into action
- to spring into being
- to spring one'a rattle
- to spring one's luff
- to spring one's rattle
- to spring or be sprung of a stone
- to spring or be sprung of stone
- to spring or be sprung of the stone
- to spring out of
- to spring out of a person