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.
From Time Magazine Archive
Epilobe: of mentum in Carabidae, really corresponds to a partially divided ligula: a lateral appendage of a bilobed mentum.
From Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology by John. B. Smith
The mentum carries at its extremity a pair of lobes with sharp fangs.
From The Life-Story of Insects by George H. (George Herbert) Carpenter
Submental peduncle: in Coleoptera, the prolonged portion of the gula supporting the mentum.
From Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology by John. B. Smith
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
