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Bleed :: Bleed (v. i.) To pay or lose money; to have money drawn or extorted; as, to bleed freely for a cause..

Windle :: Windle (n.) A spindle; a kind of reel; a winch.

Gimbals :: Gimbals (n.) A contrivance for permitting a body to incline freely in all directions, or for suspending anything, as a barometer, ship's compass, chronometer, etc., so that it will remain plumb, or level, when its support is tipped, as by the rolling of a ship. It consists of a ring in which the body can turn on an axis through a diameter of the ring, while the ring itself is so pivoted to its support that it can turn about a diameter at right angles to the first..

Jaw :: "Jaw (n.) The inner end of a boom or gaff, hollowed in a half circle so as to move freely on a mast..

Rock :: Rock (v. i.) To move or be moved backward and forward; to be violently agitated; to reel; to totter.

Reeler :: Reeler (n.) One who reels.

Bibber :: Bibber (n.) One given to drinking alcoholic beverages too freely; a tippler; -- chiefly used in composition; as, winebibber..

Reel :: Reel (n.) A lively dance of the Highlanders of Scotland; also, the music to the dance; -- often called Scotch reel..

Ostracoidea :: Ostracoidea (n. pl.) An order of Entomostraca possessing hard bivalve shells. They are of small size, and swim freely about..

Streen :: Streel (v. i.) To trail along; to saunter or be drawn along, carelessly, swaying in a kind of zigzag motion..

Catenary :: Catenary (n.) The curve formed by a rope or chain of uniform density and perfect flexibility, hanging freely between two points of suspension, not in the same vertical line..

Zoodendrium :: Zoodendrium (n.) The branched, and often treelike, support of the colonies of certain Infusoria..

Swift :: Swift (n.) A reel, or turning instrument, for winding yarn, thread, etc.; -- used chiefly in the plural..

Seraphine :: Seraphine (n.) A wind instrument whose sounding parts are reeds, consisting of a thin tongue of brass playing freely through a slot in a plate. It has a case, like a piano, and is played by means of a similar keybord, the bellows being worked by the foot. The melodeon is a portable variety of this instrument..

Melanaemia :: Melanaemia (n.) A morbid condition in which the blood contains black pigment either floating freely or imbedded in the white blood corpuscles.

Solarium :: Solarium (n.) An apartment freely exposed to the sun; anciently, an apartment or inclosure on the roof of a house; in modern times, an apartment in a hospital, used as a resort for convalescents..

Wince :: Wince (n.) A reel used in dyeing, steeping, or washing cloth; a winch. It is placed over the division wall between two wince pits so as to allow the cloth to descend into either compartment. at will..

Vane :: Vane (n.) A contrivance attached to some elevated object for the purpose of showing which way the wind blows; a weathercock. It is usually a plate or strip of metal, or slip of wood, often cut into some fanciful form, and placed upon a perpendicular axis around which it moves freely..

Skein :: Skein (n.) A quantity of yarn, thread, or the like, put up together, after it is taken from the reel, -- usually tied in a sort of knot..

Troll :: Troll (v. t.) To sing the parts of in succession, as of a round, a catch, and the like; also, to sing loudly or freely..

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