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Casket :: Casket (n.) A small chest or box, esp. of rich material or ornamental character, as for jewels, etc..

Enameling :: Enameling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Ename.

Cinnamene :: Cinnamene (n.) Styrene (which was formerly called cinnamene because obtained from cinnamic acid). See Styrene.

Lacquer :: Lacquer (n.) A varnish, consisting of a solution of shell-lac in alcohol, often colored with gamboge, saffron, or the like; -- used for varnishing metals, papier-mache, and wood. The name is also given to varnishes made of other ingredients, esp. the tough, solid varnish of the Japanese, with which ornamental objects are made..

Buttonweed :: Buttonweed (n.) The name of several plants of the genera Spermacoce and Diodia, of the Madder family..

Fritter :: Fritter (v. t.) A small quantity of batter, fried in boiling lard or in a frying pan. Fritters are of various kinds, named from the substance inclosed in the batter; as, apple fritters, clam fritters, oyster fritters..

Ruff :: Ruff (n.) Something formed with plaits or flutings, like the collar of this name..

Pseudepigraphy :: Pseudepigraphy (n.) The ascription of false names of authors to works.

Good :: Good (n.) Wares; commodities; chattels; -- formerly used in the singular in a collective sense. In law, a comprehensive name for almost all personal property as distinguished from land or real property..

Nonesuch :: Nonesuch (n.) A person or thing of a sort that there is no other such; something extraordinary; a thing that has not its equal. It is given as a name to various objects, as to a choice variety of apple, a species of medic (Medicago lupulina), a variety of pottery clay, etc..

Lily :: Lily (n.) That end of a compass needle which should point to the north; -- so called as often ornamented with the figure of a lily or fleur-de-lis.

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

Spangle :: Spangle (n.) A small plate or boss of shining metal; something brilliant used as an ornament, especially when stitched on the dress..

Betel Nut :: Betel nut () The nutlike seed of the areca palm, chewed in the East with betel leaves (whence its name) and shell lime..

Surnaming :: Surnamed (imp. & p. p.) of Surnam.

Tinsel :: Tinsel (v. t.) To adorn with tinsel; to deck out with cheap but showy ornaments; to make gaudy.

Manitu :: Manitu (n.) A name given by tribes of American Indians to a great spirit, whether good or evil, or to any object of worship..

Anoplotherium :: Anoplotherium (n.) A genus of extinct quadrupeds of the order Ungulata, whose were first found in the gypsum quarries near Paris; characterized by the shortness and feebleness of their canine teeth (whence the name)..

Laurinol :: Laurinol (n.) Ordinary camphor; -- so called in allusion to the family name (Lauraceae) of the camphor trees. See Camphor.

Fire Beetle :: Fire beetle () A very brilliantly luminous beetle (Pyrophorus noctilucus), one of the elaters, found in Central and South America; -- called also cucujo. The name is also applied to other species. See Firefly..

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