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Anapestical :: Anapestical (a.) Anapestic.

Storm :: Storm (v. i.) To raise a tempest.

Euroclydon :: Euroclydon (n.) A tempestuous northeast wind which blows in the Mediterranean. See Levanter.

Tapis :: Tapis (v. t.) To cover or work with figures like tapestry.

Campestral :: Campestral (a.) Alt. of Campestria.

Tapestries :: Tapestries (pl. ) of Tapestr.

Pestilation :: Pestilation (n.) The act of pounding and bruising with a pestle in a mortar.

Pestered :: Pestered (imp. & p. p.) of Peste.

Contagious :: Contagious (a.) Conveying or generating disease; pestilential; poisonous; as, contagious air..

Mongoos :: Mongoos (n.) A species of ichneumon (Herpestes griseus), native of India. Applied also to other allied species, as the African banded mongoose (Crossarchus fasciatus)..

Pound :: Pound (v. t.) To comminute and pulverize by beating; to bruise or break into fine particles with a pestle or other heavy instrument; as, to pound spice or salt..

Infectious :: Infectious (a.) Having qualities that may infect; communicable or caused by infection; pestilential; epidemic; as, an infectious fever; infectious clothing; infectious air; infectious vices..

Anapestic :: Anapestic (a.) Pertaining to an anapest; consisting of an anapests; as, an anapestic meter, foot, verse..

Ichneumon :: Ichneumon (n.) Any carnivorous mammal of the genus Herpestes, and family Viverridae. Numerous species are found in Asia and Africa. The Egyptian species(H. ichneumon), which ranges to Spain and Palestine, is noted for destroying the eggs and young of the crocodile as well as various snakes and lizards, and hence was considered sacred by the ancient Egyptians. The common species of India (H. griseus), known as the mongoose, has similar habits and is often domesticated. It is noted for killing the

Ravage :: Ravage (n.) Desolation by violence; violent ruin or destruction; devastation; havoc; waste; as, the ravage of a lion; the ravages of fire or tempest; the ravages of an army, or of time..

Gehenna :: Gehenna (n.) The valley of Hinnom, near Jerusalem, where some of the Israelites sacrificed their children to Moloch, which, on this account, was afterward regarded as a place of abomination, and made a receptacle for all the refuse of the city, perpetual fires being kept up in order to prevent pestilential effluvia. In the New Testament the name is transferred, by an easy metaphor, to Hell..

Intempestively :: Intempestively (adv.) Unseasonably.

Lazar :: Lazar (n.) A person infected with a filthy or pestilential disease; a leper.

Poison :: Poison (n.) Any agent which, when introduced into the animal organism, is capable of producing a morbid, noxious, or deadly effect upon it; as, morphine is a deadly poison; the poison of pestilential diseases..

Acinus :: Acinus (n.) A grapestone.

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