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Friday :: Friday (n.) The sixth day of the week, following Thursday and preceding Saturday..

Campaign :: Campaign (n.) Political operations preceding an election; a canvass.

Predecessive :: Predecessive (a.) Going before; preceding.

Anteact :: Anteact (n.) A preceding act.

Penult :: Penult (n.) The last syllable but one of a word; the syllable preceding the final one.

Tuesday :: Tuesday (n.) The third day of the week, following Monday and preceding Wednesday..

Precontract :: Precontract (n.) A contract preceding anothe.

Antenuptial :: Antenuptial (a.) Preceding marriage; as, an antenuptial agreement..

Prelude :: Prelude (v. t.) An introductory performance, preceding and preparing for the principal matter; a preliminary part, movement, strain, etc.; especially (Mus.), a strain introducing the theme or chief subject; a movement introductory to a fugue, yet independent; -- with recent composers often synonymous with overture..

Cheliform :: Cheliform (a.) Having a movable joint or finger closing against a preceding joint or a projecting part of it, so that the whole may be used for grasping, as the claw of a crab; pincherlike..

Archaeolithic :: Archaeolithic (a.) Of or pertaining to the earliest Stone age; -- applied to a prehistoric period preceding the Paleolithic age.

Succession :: Succession (n.) The right to enter upon the possession of the property of an ancestor, or one near of kin, or one preceding in an established order..

Thursday :: Thursday (n.) The fifth day of the week, following Wednesday and preceding Friday..

Preceding :: Preceding (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Preced.

Formerly :: Formerly (adv.) In time past, either in time immediately preceding or at any indefinite distance; of old; heretofore..

Catchword :: Catchword (n.) The first word of any page of a book after the first, inserted at the right hand bottom corner of the preceding page for the assistance of the reader. It is seldom used in modern printing..

Bastard :: Bastard (n.) Abbreviated, as the half title in a page preceding the full title page of a book..

Prefecundation :: Prefecundation (n.) A term collectively applied to the changes or conditions preceding fecundation, especially to the changes which the ovum undergoes before fecundation..

Martingal :: Martingal (n.) The act of doubling, at each stake, that which has been lost on the preceding stake; also, the sum so risked; -- metaphorically derived from the bifurcation of the martingale of a harness..

Little :: Little (adv.) In a small quantity or degree; not much; slightly; somewhat; -- often with a preceding it.

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