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Alebench :: Alebench (n.) A bench in or before an alehouse.

High :: High (superl.) Strong-scented; slightly tainted; as, epicures do not cook game before it is high..

Onward :: Onward (adv.) Toward a point before or in front; forward; progressively; as, to move onward..

Incunabulum :: Incunabulum (n.) A work of art or of human industry, of an early epoch; especially, a book printed before a. d. 1500..

Predecease :: Predecease (n.) The death of one person or thing before another.

Sub- :: Sub- () A prefix signifying under, below, beneath, and hence often, in an inferior position or degree, in an imperfect or partial state, as in subscribe, substruct, subserve, subject, subordinate, subacid, subastringent, subgranular, suborn. Sub- in Latin compounds often becomes sum- before m, sur before r, and regularly becomes suc-, suf-, sug-, and sup- before c, f, g, and p respectively. Before c, p, and t it sometimes takes form sus- (by the dropping of b from a collateral form, subs-)..

Premeditate :: Premeditate (v. t.) To think on, and revolve in the mind, beforehand; to contrive and design previously; as, to premeditate robbery..

Above-cited :: Above-cited (a.) Cited before, in the preceding part of a book or writing..

Host :: Host (n.) The consecrated wafer, believed to be the body of Christ, which in the Mass is offered as a sacrifice; also, the bread before consecration..

Miscarriage :: Miscarriage (n.) The act of bringing forth before the time; premature birth.

Appreciation :: Appreciation (n.) Accurate perception; true estimation; as, an appreciation of the difficulties before us; an appreciation of colors..

Foreteach :: Foreteach (v. t.) To teach beforehand.

Preconsign :: Preconsign (v. t.) To consign beforehand; to make a previous consignment of.

Spoil :: Spoil (v. t.) To plunder; to strip by violence; to pillage; to rob; -- with of before the name of the thing taken; as, to spoil one of his goods or possession..

Ex- :: Ex- () A prefix from the latin preposition, ex, akin to Gr. 'ex or 'ek signifying out of, out, proceeding from. Hence, in composition, it signifies out of, as, in exhale, exclude; off, from, or out. as in exscind; beyond, as, in excess, exceed, excel; and sometimes has a privative sense of without, as in exalbuminuos, exsanguinous. In some words, it intensifies the meaning; in others, it has little affect on the signification. It becomes ef- before f, as in effuse. The form e- occurs instead of

Prenominate :: Prenominate (v. t.) To forename; to name beforehand; to tell by name beforehand.

Pique :: Pique (n.) In piquet, the right of the elder hand to count thirty in hand, or to play before the adversary counts one..

Antechamber :: Antechamber (n.) A chamber or apartment before the chief apartment and leading into it, in which persons wait for audience; an outer chamber. See Lobby..

Hobit :: Hobit (n.) A small mortar on a gun carriage, in use before the howitzer..

Preact :: Preact (v. t.) To act beforehand; to perform previously.

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