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1. Shortness, especially as applied to time.
2. Being short in speech or writing; contraction into few words, conciseness, terseness.

1. A disastrous event resulting in great loss and misfortune.
2. A great misfortune or disaster; such as, a flood or a serious injury.
3. A grievous affliction; adversity; misery: "We are just beginning to see the calamity of the war in Iraq.
4. An event that brings terrible loss, lasting distress, or severe affliction.
5. Dire distress resulting from loss or tragedy.

1. Amount of room or space inside; largest amount that can be held by a container: "A gallon can has a capacity of 4 quarts."
2. The power of receiving and holding: "This theater has a seating capacity of 500."
3. The ability to learn or to do; power or fitness: "They have a great capacity for learning."
4. The ability to withstand some force or perform some function: "The capacity of a metal to retain heat."
5. Maximum output: "During the war, steel factories worked at full capacity."
6. A position or relation; legal power or qualification: "A person may act in the capacity of guardian, trustee, voter, friend, etc."

An appetite for flesh.

An excrescence [any abnormal growth from the surface of a body part] resembling flesh; a fleshy growth.

The quality of acting like fire on animal matter, or the quality of combining with the principles of organized substances, and destroying their texture. This quality belongs to concentrated acids, pure alkalis, and some metallic salts.

1. A crafty device, artifice, stratagem; a trick, sleight, deceit.
2. Cunning, craftiness, wiliness, trickery.
3. A precaution; in Law, etc.; an exception, restriction, or reservation made for precaution's sake.
4. A caution or direction for the proper administration of the sacraments; especially in cautels of the Mass.
5. In its verb form: To devise cunningly or craftily.

Swiftness, speed. Now chiefly (as distinguished from velocity) with reference to the movements or actions of living beings.

1. The chemical version of left-handed and right-handed.
2. While some molecules have the same atoms tied up in the same way, they are not physically the same because of their orientation.
3. The property possessed by an object; that is, a molecule, if it differs from its mirror image.

Such a chemical is called a chiral compound, and the two (or more) forms are called enantiomers (or optical isomers) of each other. Nearly all of the molecules that make up living systems are chiral.