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Thrum :: Thrum (n.) One of the ends of weaver's threads; hence, any soft, short threads or tufts resembling these..

Stubbed :: Stubbed (a.) Reduced to a stub; short and thick, like something truncated; blunt; obtuse..

Truncated :: Truncated (a.) Cut off; cut short; maimed.

Bacchius :: Bacchius (n.) A metrical foot composed of a short syllable and two long ones; according to some, two long and a short..

Measure :: Measure (a.) The manner of ordering and combining the quantities, or long and short syllables; meter; rhythm; hence, a foot; as, a poem in iambic measure..

Bite :: Bite (v.) The hold which the short end of a lever has upon the thing to be lifted, or the hold which one part of a machine has upon another..

Bugle :: Bugle (n.) A copper instrument of the horn quality of tone, shorter and more conical that the trumpet, sometimes keyed; formerly much used in military bands, very rarely in the orchestra; now superseded by the cornet; -- called also the Kent bugle..

Birdbolt :: Birdbolt (n.) A short blunt arrow for killing birds without piercing them.

Wekau :: Wekau (n.) A small New Zealand owl (Sceloglaux albifacies). It has short wings and long legs, and lives chiefly on the ground..

Bristle :: Bristle (n.) A short, stiff, coarse hair, as on the back of swine..

Pug Nose :: Pug nose () A short, thick nose; a snubnose..

Hog :: Hog (v. t.) To cut short like bristles; as, to hog the mane of a horse..

Nylgau :: Nylgau (n.) A large Asiatic antelope (Boselaphus, / Portax, tragocamelus), found in Northern India. It has short horns, a black mane, and a bunch of long hair on the throat. The general color is grayish brown..

Impennate :: Impennate (a.) Characterized by short wings covered with feathers resembling scales, as the penguins..

Soboles :: Soboles (n.) A shoot running along under ground, forming new plants at short distances..

Nib :: Nib (n.) The points of a pen; also, the pointed part of a pen; a short pen adapted for insertion in a holder..

Cat-harping :: Cat-harping (n.) One of the short ropes or iron cramps used to brace in the shrouds toward the masts so a to give freer sweep to the yards.

Puff :: Puff (n.) To blow in puffs, or with short and sudden whiffs..

Momentariness :: Momentariness (n.) The state or quality of being momentary; shortness of duration.

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..

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