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Sphere :: Sphere (n.) An orbit, as of a star; a socket..

Alveolar :: Alveolar (a.) Of, pertaining to, or resembling, alveoli or little cells, sacs, or sockets..

Socket :: Socket (n.) Especially, the hollow tube or place in which a candle is fixed in the candlestick..

Capstan :: Capstan (n.) A vertical cleated drum or cylinder, revolving on an upright spindle, and surmounted by a drumhead with sockets for bars or levers. It is much used, especially on shipboard, for moving or raising heavy weights or exerting great power by traction upon a rope or cable, passing around the drum. It is operated either by steam power or by a number of men walking around the capstan, each pushing on the end of a lever fixed in its socket..

Dislocate :: Dislocate (v. t.) To displace; to put out of its proper place. Especially, of a bone: To remove from its normal connections with a neighboring bone; to put out of joint; to move from its socket; to disjoint; as, to dislocate your bones..

Tussock :: Tussock (n.) A tuft, as of grass, twigs, hair, or the like; especially, a dense tuft or bunch of grass or sedge..

Tussocky :: Tussocky (a.) Having the form of tussocks; full of, or covered with, tussocks, or tufts..

Orbit :: Orbit (n.) The cavity or socket of the skull in which the eye and its appendages are situated.

Socket :: Socket (n.) An opening into which anything is fitted; any hollow thing or place which receives and holds something else; as, the sockets of the teeth..

Sock :: Sock (n.) The shoe worn by actors of comedy in ancient Greece and Rome, -- used as a symbol of comedy, or of the comic drama, as distinguished from tragedy, which is symbolized by the buskin..

Tussac Grass :: Tussac grass () Tussock grass.

Sock :: Sock (n.) A knit or woven covering for the foot and lower leg; a stocking with a short leg.

Thussock :: Thussock (n.) See Tussock.

Odontotormae :: Odontotormae (n.pl.) An order of extinct toothed birds having the teeth in sockets, as in the genus Ichthyornis. See Ichthyornis..

Cockeye :: Cockeye (n.) The socket in the ball of a millstone, which sits on the cockhead..

Bridgepot :: Bridgepot (n.) The adjustable socket, or step, of a millstone spindle..

Glenoid :: Glenoid (a.) Having the form of a smooth and shallow depression; socketlike; -- applied to several articular surfaces of bone; as, the glenoid cavity, or fossa, of the scapula, in which the head of the humerus articulates..

Pedestal :: Pedestal (n.) An iron socket, or support, for the foot of a brace at the end of a truss where it rests on a pier..

Gomphiasis :: Gomphiasis (n.) A disease of the teeth, which causes them to loosen and fall out of their sockets..

Enarthrosis :: Enarthrosis (n.) A ball and socket joint, or the kind of articulation represented by such a joint. See Articulation..

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