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Hommocky :: Hommocky (a.) Filled with hommocks; piled in the form of hommocks; -- said of ice.

Institutist :: Institutist (n.) A writer or compiler of, or a commentator on, institutes..

Thermopile :: Thermopile (n.) An instrument of extreme sensibility, used to determine slight differences and degrees of heat. It is composed of alternate bars of antimony and bismuth, or any two metals having different capacities for the conduction of heat, connected with an astatic galvanometer, which is very sensibly affected by the electric current induced in the system of bars when exposed even to the feeblest degrees of heat..

Trevat :: Trevat (n.) A weaver's cutting instrument; for severing the loops of the pile threads of velvet.

Gribble :: Gribble (n.) A small marine isopod crustacean (Limnoria lignorum or L. terebrans), which burrows into and rapidly destroys submerged timber, such as the piles of wharves, both in Europe and America..

Ram :: Ram (n.) The weight which strikes the blow, in a pile driver, steam hammer, stamp mill, or the like..

Fit :: Fit (n.) A sudden and violent attack of a disorder; a stroke of disease, as of epilepsy or apoplexy, which produces convulsions or unconsciousness; a convulsion; a paroxysm; hence, a period of exacerbation of a disease; in general, an attack of disease; as, a fit of sickness..

Demolition :: Demolition (n.) The act of overthrowing, pulling down, or destroying a pile or structure; destruction by violence; utter overthrow; -- opposed to construction; as, the demolition of a house, of military works, of a town, or of hopes..

Upheaped :: Upheaped (a.) Piled up; accumulated.

Pile :: Pile (n.) A vertical series of alternate disks of two dissimilar metals, as copper and zinc, laid up with disks of cloth or paper moistened with acid water between them, for producing a current of electricity; -- commonly called Volta's pile, voltaic pile, or galvanic pile..

Palification :: Palification (n.) The act or practice of driving piles or posts into the ground to make it firm.

Spill :: Spill (n.) A peg or pin for plugging a hole, as in a cask; a spile..

Nog :: Nog (n.) One of the square logs of wood used in a pile to support the roof of a mine.

Fistuca :: Fistuca (n.) An instrument used by the ancients in driving piles.

Aura :: Aura (n.) The peculiar sensation, as of a light vapor, or cold air, rising from the trunk or limbs towards the head, a premonitory symptom of epilepsy or hysterics..

Bing :: Bing (n.) A heap or pile; as, a bing of wood..

Shoe :: Shoe (n.) An iron socket to protect the point of a wooden pile.

Waterhorse :: Waterhorse (n.) A pile of salted fish heaped up to drain.

Fire :: Fire (v. t.) To set on fire; to kindle; as, to fire a house or chimney; to fire a pile..

Wale :: Wale (n.) A timber bolted to a row of piles to secure them together and in position.

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