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Fault :: Fault (n.) In coal seams, coal rendered worthless by impurities in the seam; as, slate fault, dirt fault, etc..

Plumbaginous :: Plumbaginous (a.) Resembling plumbago; consisting of, or containing, plumbago; as, a plumbaginous slate..

Misrender :: Misrender (v. t.) To render wrongly; to translate or recite wrongly.

Heal :: Heal (v. t.) To cover, as a roof, with tiles, slate, lead, or the like..

Legislated :: Legislated (imp. & p. p.) of Legislat.

Transdialect :: Transdialect (v. t.) To change or translate from one dialect into another.

Tail :: Tail (n.) The bottom or lower portion of a member or part, as a slate or tile..

Slate-gray :: Slate-gray (a.) Of a dark gray, like slate..

Pipestone :: Pipestone (n.) A kind of clay slate, carved by the Indians into tobacco pipes. Cf. Catlinite..

Translate :: Translate (v. t.) To remove to heaven without a natural death.

Translate :: Translate (v. t.) To cause to remove from one part of the body to another; as, to translate a disease..

Sea Wood Louse :: Sea wood louse () A sea slater.

Translated :: Translated (imp. & p. p.) of Translat.

Render :: Render (v. t.) To translate from one language into another; as, to render Latin into English..

Overlap :: Overlap (n.) The lapping of one thing over another; as, an overlap of six inches; an overlap of a slate on a roof..

Flashing :: Flashing (n.) Pieces of metal, built into the joints of a wall, so as to lap over the edge of the gutters or to cover the edge of the roofing; also, similar pieces used to cover the valleys of roofs of slate, shingles, or the like. By extension, the metal covering of ridges and hips of roofs; also, in the United States, the protecting of angles and breaks in walls of frame houses with waterproof material, tarred paper, or the like. Cf. Filleting..

Decipher :: Decipher (v. t.) To translate from secret characters or ciphers into intelligible terms; as, to decipher a letter written in secret characters..

Shindle :: Shindle (n.) A shingle; also, a slate for roofing..

Sax :: Sax (n.) A kind of chopping instrument for trimming the edges of roofing slates.

Translate :: Translate (v. t.) To change to another condition, position, place, or office; to transfer; hence, to remove as by death..

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