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Preposition :: Preposition (n.) A word employed to connect a noun or a pronoun, in an adjectival or adverbial sense, with some other word; a particle used with a noun or pronoun (in English always in the objective case) to make a phrase limiting some other word; -- so called because usually placed before the word with which it is phrased; as, a bridge of iron; he comes from town; it is good for food; he escaped by running..

Concourse :: Concourse (n.) A moving, flowing, or running together; confluence..

Stagirite :: Staging (n.) The business of running stagecoaches; also, the act of journeying in stagecoaches..

Coursing :: Coursing (n.) The pursuit or running game with dogs that follow by sight instead of by scent.

Spring :: Spring (v. i.) A crack or fissure in a mast or yard, running obliquely or transversely..

Purl :: Purl (n.) A gentle murmur, as that produced by the running of a liquid among obstructions; as, the purl of a brook..

Transfluent :: Transfluent (a.) Flowing or running across or through; as, a transfluent stream..

Carling :: Carling (n.) A short timber running lengthwise of a ship, from one transverse desk beam to another; also, one of the cross timbers that strengthen a hath; -- usually in pl..

Shirk :: Shirk (v. i.) To evade an obligation; to avoid the performance of duty, as by running away..

Char-a-bancs :: Char-a-bancs (n.) A long, light, open vehicle, with benches or seats running lengthwise..

Coamings :: Coamings (n. pl.) Raised pieces of wood of iron around a hatchway, skylight, or other opening in the deck, to prevent water from running bellow; esp. the fore-and-aft pieces of a hatchway frame as distinguished from the transverse head ledges..

Steamboating :: Steamboating (n.) The occupation or business of running a steamboat, or of transporting merchandise, passengers, etc., by steamboats..

Cursorily :: Cursorily (adv.) In a running or hasty manner; carelessly.

Sledding :: Sledding (n.) The state of the snow which admits of the running of sleds; as, the sledding is good..

Laving :: Laving (v. i.) Issuing continually from the earth; running; flowing; as, a living spring; -- opposed to stagnant..

Hound :: Hound (n.) A side bar used to strengthen portions of the running gear of a vehicle.

Median :: Median (a.) Being in the middle; running through the middle; as, a median groove..

Recurrent :: Recurrent (a.) Running back toward its origin; as, a recurrent nerve or artery..

Lugger :: Lugger (n.) A small vessel having two or three masts, and a running bowsprit, and carrying lugsails. See Illustration in Appendix..

Race :: Race (n.) Esp., swift progress; rapid course; a running..

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