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#NAME? :: -or () A noun suffix denoting an act; a state or quality; as in error, fervor, pallor, candor, etc..

Pallor :: Pallor (a.) Paleness; want of color; pallidity; as, pallor of the complexion..

Dismay :: Dismay (v. i.) To disable with alarm or apprehensions; to depress the spirits or courage of; to deprive or firmness and energy through fear; to daunt; to appall; to terrify.

Asarabacca :: Asarabacca (n.) An acrid herbaceous plant (Asarum Europaeum), the leaves and roots of which are emetic and cathartic. It is principally used in cephalic snuffs..

Breastsummer :: Breastsummer (n.) A summer or girder extending across a building flush with, and supporting, the upper part of a front or external wall; a long lintel; a girder; -- used principally above shop windows..

Hypallage :: Hypallage (n.) A figure consisting of a transference of attributes from their proper subjects to other. Thus Virgil says, dare classibus austros, to give the winds to the fleets, instead of dare classibus austris, to give the fleets to the winds..

Hearse :: Hearse (n.) A framework of wood or metal placed over the coffin or tomb of a deceased person, and covered with a pall; also, a temporary canopy bearing wax lights and set up in a church, under which the coffin was placed during the funeral ceremonies..

Laramie Group :: Laramie group () An extensive series of strata, principally developed in the Rocky Mountain region, as in the Laramie Mountains, and formerly supposed to be of the Tertiary age, but now generally regarded as Cretaceous, or of intermediate and transitional character. It contains beds of lignite, often valuable for coal, and is hence also called the lignitic group. See Chart of Geology..

Rampallian :: Rampallian (n.) A mean wretch.

Pailmall :: Pailmall (n. & a.) See Pall-mall.

Palladium :: Palladium (n.) A rare metallic element of the light platinum group, found native, and also alloyed with platinum and gold. It is a silver-white metal resembling platinum, and like it permanent and untarnished in the air, but is more easily fusible. It is unique in its power of occluding hydrogen, which it does to the extent of nearly a thousand volumes, forming the alloy Pd2H. It is used for graduated circles and verniers, for plating certain silver goods, and somewhat in dentistry. It was so na

Appall :: Appall (a.) To weaken; to enfeeble; to reduce; as, an old appalled wight..

Cross-spall :: Cross-spall (n.) One of the temporary wooden braces, placed horizontally across a frame to hold it in position until the deck beams are in; a cross-pawl..

Color :: Color (v. t.) To change or alter, as if by dyeing or painting; to give a false appearance to; usually, to give a specious appearance to; to cause to appear attractive; to make plausible; to palliate or excuse; as, the facts were colored by his prejudices..

Pallet :: Pallet (n.) A tool for gilding the backs of books over the bands.

Sunfish :: Sunfish (n.) Any one of numerous species of perch-like North American fresh-water fishes of the family Centrachidae. They have a broad, compressed body, and strong dorsal spines. Among the common species of the Eastern United States are Lepomis gibbosus (called also bream, pondfish, pumpkin seed, and sunny), the blue sunfish, or dollardee (L. pallidus), and the long-eared sunfish (L. auritus). Several of the species are called also pondfish..

Palliation :: Palliation (n.) Mitigation; alleviation, as of a disease..

Palliate :: Palliate (v. t.) To cover with a mantle or cloak; to cover up; to hide.

Pall :: Pall (n.) A figure resembling the Roman Catholic pallium, or pall, and having the form of the letter Y..

Woof :: Woof (n.) Texture; cloth; as, a pall of softest woof..

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