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Jade :: Jade (n.) A young woman; -- generally so called in irony or slight contempt.

Drowse :: Drowse (n.) A slight or imperfect sleep; a doze.

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

Scarmoge :: Scarmoge (n.) A slight contest; a skirmish. See Skirmish.

Alkalescent :: Alkalescent (a.) Tending to the properties of an alkali; slightly alkaline.

Enough :: Enough (adv.) Fully; quite; -- used to express slight augmentation of the positive degree, and sometimes equivalent to very; as, he is ready enough to embrace the offer..

Dabble :: Dabble (v. i.) To work in slight or superficial manner; to do in a small way; to tamper; to meddle.

Toughish :: Toughish (a.) Tough in a slight degree.

Lactose :: Lactose (n.) Sugar of milk or milk sugar; a crystalline sugar present in milk, and separable from the whey by evaporation and crystallization. It has a slightly sweet taste, is dextrorotary, and is much less soluble in water than either cane sugar or glucose. Formerly called lactin..

Scalp :: Scalp (v. i.) To make a small, quick profit by slight fluctuations of the market; -- said of brokers who operate in this way on their own account..

Breath :: Breath (n.) A single word; the slightest effort; a trifle.

Scratch :: Scratch (v. t.) To rub and tear or mark the surface of with something sharp or ragged; to scrape, roughen, or wound slightly by drawing something pointed or rough across, as the claws, the nails, a pin, or the like..

Acescent :: Acescent (a.) Turning sour; readily becoming tart or acid; slightly sour.

Hellenic :: Hellenic (n.) The dialect, formed with slight variations from the Attic, which prevailed among Greek writers after the time of Alexander..

Substrate :: Substrate (a.) Having very slight furrows.

Upher :: Upher (n.) A fir pole of from four to seven inches diameter, and twenty to forty feet long, sometimes roughly hewn, used for scaffoldings, and sometimes for slight and common roofs, for which use it is split..

Rally :: Rally (v. t.) To attack with raillery, either in good humor and pleasantry, or with slight contempt or satire..

Chinse :: Chinse (v. t. & i.) To thrust oakum into (seams or chinks) with a chisel , the point of a knife, or a chinsing iron; to calk slightly..

Dais :: Dais (n.) A platform slightly raised above the floor of a hall or large room, giving distinction to the table and seats placed upon it for the chief guests..

Little :: Little (adv.) In a small quantity or degree; not much; slightly; somewhat; -- often with a preceding it.

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