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Abovesaid :: Abovesaid (a.) Mentioned or recited before.

Air Vessel :: Air vessel () A vessel, cell, duct, or tube containing or conducting air; as the air vessels of insects, birds, plants, etc.; the air vessel of a pump, engine, etc. For the latter, see Air chamber. The air vessels of insects are called tracheae, of plants spiral vessels..

Alewives :: Alewives (pl. ) of Alewif.

Archives :: Archives (pl. ) of Archiv.

Aves :: Aves (n. pl.) The class of Vertebrata that includes the birds.

Avesta :: Avesta (n.) The Zoroastrian scriptures. See Zend-Avesta.

Bedstaves :: Bedstaves (pl. ) of Bedstaf.

Beeves :: Beeves (n.) plural of Beef, the animal..

Blood Vessel :: Blood vessel () Any vessel or canal in which blood circulates in an animal, as an artery or vein..

Bookshelves :: Bookshelves (pl. ) of Bookshel.

Calves :: Calves (pl. ) of Cal.

Calvessnout :: Calvessnout (n.) Snapdragon.

Cavesson :: Cavesson (n.) Alt. of Cavezo.

Circumvest :: Circumvest (v. t.) To cover round, as with a garment; to invest..

Claves :: Claves (pl. ) of Clavi.

Corves :: Corves (pl. ) of Cor.

Defervescence :: Defervescence (n.) Alt. of Defervescenc.

Defervescency :: Defervescency (n.) A subsiding from a state of ebullition; loss of heat; lukewarmness.

Defervescency :: Defervescency (n.) The subsidence of a febrile process; as, the stage of defervescence in pneumonia..

Devest :: Devest (v. t.) To divest; to undress.

Devest :: Devest (v. t.) To take away, as an authority, title, etc., to deprive; to alienate, as an estate..

Devest :: Devest (v. i.) To be taken away, lost, or alienated, as a title or an estate..

Devested :: Devested (imp. & p. p.) of Deves.

Devesting :: Devesting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Deves.

Disinvestiture :: Disinvestiture (n.) The act of depriving of investiture.

Distaves :: Distaves (pl. ) of Distaf.

Dives :: Dives (n.) The name popularly given to the rich man in our Lord's parable of the Rich Man and Lazarus (Luke xvi. 19-31). Hence, a name for a rich worldling..

Divest :: Divest (v. t.) To unclothe; to strip, as of clothes, arms, or equipage; -- opposed to invest..

Divest :: Divest (v. t.) Fig.: To strip; to deprive; to dispossess; as, to divest one of his rights or privileges; to divest one's self of prejudices, passions, etc..