Precocious :: Precocious (a.) Developed more than is natural or usual at a given age; exceeding what is to be expected of one's years; too forward; -- used especially of mental forwardness; as, a precocious child; precocious talents..

Precociously :: Precociously (adv.) In a precocious manner.

Precociousness :: Precociousness (n.) Alt. of Precocit.

Precocity :: Precocity (n.) The quality or state of being precocious; untimely ripeness; premature development, especially of the mental powers; forwardness..

Princock :: Princock (n.) Alt. of Princo.

Protococcus :: Protococcus (n.) A genus of minute unicellular algae including the red snow plant (Protococcus nivalis).

Recoct :: Recoct (v. t.) To boil or cook again; hence, to make over; to vamp up; to reconstruct..

Recoction :: Recoction (n.) A second coction or preparation; a vamping up.

Ricochet :: Ricochet (n.) A rebound or skipping, as of a ball along the ground when a gun is fired at a low angle of elevation, or of a fiat stone thrown along the surface of water..

Ricochet :: Ricochet (v. t.) To operate upon by ricochet firing. See Ricochet, n..

Ricochet :: Ricochet (v. i.) To skip with a rebound or rebounds, as a flat stone on the surface of water, or a cannon ball on the ground. See Ricochet, n..

Ricochetted :: Ricochetted (imp. & p. p.) of Ricoche.

Ricochetting :: Ricochetting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Ricoche.

Rococo :: Rococo (n.) A florid style of ornamentation which prevailed in Europe in the latter part of the eighteenth century.

Rococo :: Rococo (a.) Of or pertaining to the style called rococo; like rococo; florid; fantastic.

Roostcock :: Roostcock (n.) The male of the domestic fowl; a cock.

Sacculo-cochlear :: Sacculo-cochlear (a.) Pertaining to the sacculus and cochlea of the ear.

Sarcocarp :: Sarcocarp (n.) The fleshy part of a stone fruit, situated between the skin, or epicarp, and the stone, or endocarp, as in a peach. See Illust. of Endocarp..

Sarcocele :: Sarcocele (n.) Any solid tumor of the testicle.

Sarcocol :: Sarcocol (n.) Alt. of Sarcocoll.

Sarcocolla :: Sarcocolla (n.) A gum resin obtained from certain shrubs of Africa (Penaea), -- formerly thought to cause healing of wounds and ulcers..

Sea Cock :: Sea cock () In a steamship, a cock or valve close to the vessel's side, for closing a pipe which communicates with the sea..

Sea Cock :: Sea cock () The black-bellied plover.

Sea Cock :: Sea cock () A gurnard, as the European red gurnard (Trigla pini)..

Sea Cocoa :: Sea cocoa () A magnificent palm (Lodoicea Sechellarum) found only in the Seychelles Islands. The fruit is an immense two-lobed nut. It was found floating in the Indian Ocean before the tree was known, and called sea cocoanut, and double cocoanut..

Sea Woodcock :: Sea woodcock () The bar-tailed godwit.

Shittlecock :: Shittlecock (n.) A shuttlecock.

Shuttlecock :: Shuttlecock (n.) A cork stuck with feathers, which is to be struck by a battledoor in play; also, the play itself..

Shuttlecock :: Shuttlecock (v. t.) To send or toss to and fro; to bandy; as, to shuttlecock words..

Skirlcock :: Skirlcock (n.) The missel thrush; -- so called from its harsh alarm note.

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