mentum
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On the Balance of Power: The Pres ident believes that Communist mo mentum, which picked up after Sputnik 1, has slackened.
From Time Magazine Archive
Making his playwriting debut at Manhattan's American Place Theater, Reynolds, 33, does not shape his plays with sufficient skill, but he does give them a wickedly comic mo mentum like an accomplished barstool raconteur.
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Submental peduncle: in Coleoptera, the prolonged portion of the gula supporting the mentum.
From Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology by John. B. Smith
Body moderately elongated and covered with a long dark pubescence; spiracular disk squarely truncated, surrounded by five subequal stout lobes; mentum with five subequal teeth, the lateral one of either side not conspicuously reduced.Rhamphidaria.
From Journal of Entomology and Zoology Volume 11, Number 4, December 1919 by Charles P. Alexander
The eruption first broke out upon the chin, whence it was called Mentagra, and is thus alluded to by Martial: Non ulcus acre, pustulæve lucentes; Nec triste mentum, sordidive lichenes.
From Curiosities of Medical Experience by J. G. (John Gideon) Millingen
The forms mednama, menta, usually in the second state of the initial, are used for interrogative and dependent sentences:— A vednama cara? shall I love?
From A Handbook of the Cornish Language chiefly in its latest stages with some account of its history and literature by Henry Jenner
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