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Architrave :: Architrave (n.) The group of moldings, or other architectural member, above and on both sides of a door or other opening, especially if square in form..

Cholecystotomy :: Cholecystotomy (n.) The operation of making an opening in the gall bladder, as for the removal of a gallstone..

Nares :: Nares (n. pl.) The nostrils or nasal openings, -- the anterior nares being the external or proper nostrils, and the posterior nares, the openings of the nasal cavities into the mouth or pharynx..

Close :: Close (v. t.) Uttered with a relatively contracted opening of the mouth, as certain sounds of e and o in French, Italian, and German; -- opposed to open..

Vent :: Vent (n.) The opening at the breech of a firearm, through which fire is communicated to the powder of the charge; touchhole..

Lag :: Lag (n.) The amount of retardation of anything, as of a valve in a steam engine, in opening or closing..

Lead :: Lead (n.) The width of port opening which is uncovered by the valve, for the admission or release of steam, at the instant when the piston is at end of its stroke..

Rounding :: Rounding (n.) Modifying a speech sound by contraction of the lip opening; labializing; labialization. See Guide to Pronunciation, / 11..

Obturator :: Obturator (n.) That which closes or stops an opening.

Dehiscence :: Dehiscence (n.) A gaping or bursting open along a definite line of attachment or suture, without tearing, as in the opening of pods, or the bursting of capsules at maturity so as to emit seeds, etc.; also, the bursting open of follicles, as in the ovaries of animals, for the expulsion of their contents..

Placket :: Placket (n.) The opening or slit left in a petticoat or skirt for convenience in putting it on; -- called also placket hole.

Blooming :: Blooming (a.) Opening in blossoms; flowering.

Jubilate :: Jubilate (n.) A name of the 100th Psalm; -- so called from its opening word in the Latin version.

Quarrel :: Quarrel (n.) A small opening in window tracery, of which the cusps, etc., make the form nearly square..

Court :: Court (n.) An inclosed space; a courtyard; an uncovered area shut in by the walls of a building, or by different building; also, a space opening from a street and nearly surrounded by houses; a blind alley..

Opening :: Opening (n.) A place which is open; a breach; an aperture; a gap; cleft, or hole..

Enterotome :: Enterotome (n.) A kind of scissors used for opening the intestinal canal, as in post-mortem examinations..

Ground :: Ground (n.) A gummy composition spread over the surface of a metal to be etched, to prevent the acid from eating except where an opening is made by the needle..

Dehiscent :: Dehiscent (a.) Characterized by dehiscence; opening in some definite way, as the capsule of a plant..

Burst :: Burst (n.) A sudden opening, as of landscape; a stretch; an expanse..

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