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A self-acting apparatus for regulating temperature by the unequal expansion of different metals, liquids, or gases by heat, as in opening or closing the damper of a stove, or the like, as the heat becomes greater or less than is desired.

• Open-headed
  Bareheaded.
• Actinograph
  An instrument for measuring and recording the variations in the actinic or chemical force of rays of light.
• Stover
  Fodder for cattle, especially straw or coarse hay.
• Actinozoon
  One of the Actinozoa.
• CLOSEBODIED
  Fitting the body exactly; setting close, as a garment. Ayliffe.
• Actuation
  A bringing into action; movement.
• Closehanded
  Covetous; penurious; stingy; closefisted.
• Desirable
  Worthy of desire or longing; fitted to excite desire or a wish to possess; pleasing; agreeable.
• Differential
  Relating to or indicating a difference; creating a difference; discriminating; special; as, differential characteristics; differential duties; a differential rate.
• Open-hearted
  Candid; frank; generous.
• Actinoid
  Having the form of rays; radiated, as an actinia.
• Temperature
  Constitution; state; degree of any quality.
• Actinula
  A kind of embryo of certain hydroids (Tubularia), having a stellate form.
• CLOSEFIGHTS
  Barriers with loopholes, formerly erected on the deck of a vessel to shelter the men in a close engagement with an enemy's boarders; -- called also close quarters. [Obs.]
• Actress
  A female actor or doer.
• Actuator
  One who actuates, or puts into action.
• Closehauled
  Under way and moving as nearly as possible toward the direction from which the wind blows; -- said of a sailing vessel.
• Desirableness
  The quality of being desirable.
• Differentially
  In the way of differentiation.

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