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Home Dictionary Name: guyDerrick
A mast spar or tall frame supported at the top by stays or guys and usually pivoted at the base with suitable tackle for hoisting heavy weights such as stones in building...
guy
A rope chain or rod attached to anything to steady it as a rope to steady or guide an object which is being hoisted or lowered a rope which holds in place the end of a boom spar or yard in a ship a chain or wire rope connecting a suspension bridge with the land on either side to prevent lateral swaying a rod or rope attached to the top of a structure as of a derrick and extending obliquely to the ground where it is fastened...
okay
Satifactory agreeable pleasant as things are okay hes an okay guy...
Forensic medicine
Forensic medicine, the science which applies the principles and practice of the different branches of medicine to the elucidation of doubtful questions in a court of justice. It comprehends, in a more extensive sense, medical police, or those medical precepts which may prove useful to the legislature or the magistracy. This science is also termed medical jurisprudence, legal medicine, and state medicine. Consult the works of Taylor, Guy, Beck, or Tidy on the subject....
Infanticide
Infanticide, means (1) The act of killing a newborn child, esp. by the parents or with their consent, in archaic usage, the word referred also to the killing of an unborn child. Also termed child destruction; neonaticide. (2) The practice of killing newborn children. (3) One who kills a newborn child, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 781.Infanticide, the killing of a child immediately after it is born. The felonious destruction of the feticide, or criminal abortion.In every case in which an infant is found dead, and its death becomes the subject of judicial investiga-tion, the great questions which present themselves for inquiry are:-(1) What is the age of the child?(2) Was the child born alive?(3) If born alive, how long had it lived?(4) If born alive, by what means did it die?If it be proved that its death was owing to violence, it is then to be ascertained who the murderer of it is. If suspicion fall upon the mother, it is to be determined--(1) Whether she has been delivered of ...
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