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Cheese :: Cheese (n.) A low courtesy; -- so called on account of the cheese form assumed by a woman's dress when she stoops after extending the skirts by a rapid gyration.

Discount :: Discount (v.) To leave out of account; to take no notice of.

Dearth :: Dearth (n.) Scarcity which renders dear; want; lack; specifically, lack of food on account of failure of crops; famine..

Thereat :: Thereat (adv.) At that occurrence or event; on that account.

Amenable :: Amenable (a.) Liable to be brought to account or punishment; answerable; responsible; accountable; as, amenable to law..

Detect :: Detect (v. t.) To uncover; to discover; to find out; to bring to light; as, to detect a crime or a criminal; to detect a mistake in an account..

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..

Bill Book :: Bill book () A book in which a person keeps an account of his notes, bills, bills of exchange, etc., thus showing all that he issues and receives..

Defective :: Defective (a.) Wanting in something; incomplete; lacking a part; deficient; imperfect; faulty; -- applied either to natural or moral qualities; as, a defective limb; defective timber; a defective copy or account; a defective character; defective rules..

Journal :: "Journal (a.) A book of accounts, in which is entered a condensed and grouped statement of the daily transactions..

Compt :: Compt (n.) Account; reckoning; computation.

Sircar :: Sircar (n.) A Hindoo clerk or accountant.

Surchargement :: Surcharge (n.) The showing an omission, as in an account, for which credit ought to have been given..

Counter-roll :: Counter-roll (n.) A duplicate roll (record or account) kept by an officer as a check upon another officer's roll.

Authentics :: Authentics (n.) A collection of the Novels or New Constitutions of Justinian, by an anonymous author; -- so called on account of its authenticity..

Score :: Score (n.) Account; reason; motive; sake; behalf.

Write :: Write (v. i.) To be regularly employed or occupied in writing, copying, or accounting; to act as clerk or amanuensis; as, he writes in one of the public offices..

Control :: Control (n.) A duplicate book, register, or account, kept to correct or check another account or register; a counter register..

Falsification :: Falsification (n.) The showing an item of charge in an account to be wrong.

Accountably :: Accountably (adv.) In an accountable manner.

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