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Slub :: Slub (v. t.) To draw out and twist slightly; -- said of slivers of wool.

Touch :: Touch (v. t.) To mark or delineate with touches; to add a slight stroke to with the pencil or brush.

Delicate :: Delicate (a.) Slight and shapely; lovely; graceful; as, a delicate creature..

Bryonin :: Bryonin (n.) A bitter principle obtained from the root of the bryony (Bryonia alba and B. dioica). It is a white, or slightly colored, substance, and is emetic and cathartic..

Tap :: Tap (v. t.) To strike with a slight or gentle blow; to touch gently; to rap lightly; to pat; as, to tap one with the hand or a cane..

Tag :: Tag (n.) Any slight appendage, as to an article of dress; something slight hanging loosely; specifically, a direction card, or label..

Tack :: Tack (v. t.) Especially, to attach or secure in a slight or hasty manner, as by stitching or nailing; as, to tack together the sheets of a book; to tack one piece of cloth to another; to tack on a board or shingle; to tack one piece of metal to another by drops of solder..

Tabernacle :: Tabernacle (n.) A slightly built or temporary habitation; especially, a tent..

Tap :: Tap (n.) A gentle or slight blow; a light rap; a pat.

Suffruticose :: Suffrutescent (a.) Slightly woody at the base.

Cellulose :: Cellulose (n.) The substance which constitutes the essential part of the solid framework of plants, of ordinary wood, linen, paper, etc. It is also found to a slight extent in certain animals, as the tunicates. It is a carbohydrate, (C6H10O5)n, isomeric with starch, and is convertible into starches and sugars by the action of heat and acids. When pure, it is a white amorphous mass. See Starch, Granulose, Lignin..

Subapennine :: Subangular (a.) Slightly angular.

Tincture :: Tincture (n.) A slight taste superadded to any substance; as, a tincture of orange peel..

Slightingly :: Slightingly (adv.) In a slighting manner.

Sprig :: Sprig (n.) A youth; a lad; -- used humorously or in slight disparagement.

Pluff :: Pluff (n.) A puff, as of smoke from a pipe, or of dust from a puffball; a slight explosion, as of a small quantity of gunpowder..

Hurter :: Hurter (n.) An injury causing pain of mind or conscience; a slight; a stain; as of sin.

Bantling :: Bantling (n.) A young or small child; an infant. [Slightly contemptuous or depreciatory..

Repand :: Repand (a.) Having a slightly undulating margin; -- said of leaves.

Disparage :: Disparage (v. t.) To dishonor by a comparison with what is inferior; to lower in rank or estimation by actions or words; to speak slightingly of; to depreciate; to undervalue.

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