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

Swifter :: Swifter (n.) A rope used to retain the bars of the capstan in their sockets while men are turning it.

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

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..

Sockless :: Sockless (a.) Destitute of socks or shoes.

Cassocked :: Cassocked (a.) Clothed with a cassock.

Hassock :: Hassock (n.) A small stuffed cushion or footstool, for kneeling on in church, or for home use..

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..

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

Extract :: Extract (v. t.) To draw out or forth; to pull out; to remove forcibly from a fixed position, as by traction or suction, etc.; as, to extract a tooth from its socket, a stump from the earth, a splinter from the finger..

Sockdolager :: Sockdolager (n.) A combination of two hooks which close upon each other, by means of a spring, as soon as the fish bites..

Sockdolager :: Sockdolager (n.) That which finishes or ends a matter; a settler; a poser, as a heavy blow, a conclusive answer, and the like..

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

Tussuck :: Tussuck (n.) See Tussock.

Bassock :: Bassock (n.) A hassock. See 2d Bass, 2..

Bast :: Bast (n.) A thick mat or hassock. See 2d Bass, 2..

Joint :: "Joint (n.) A joining of two things or parts so as to admit of motion; an articulation, whether movable or not; a hinge; as, the knee joint; a node or joint of a stem; a ball and socket joint. See Articulation..

Circumferentor :: Circumferentor (n.) A surveying instrument, for taking horizontal angles and bearings; a surveyor's compass. It consists of a compass whose needle plays over a circle graduated to 360¡, and of a horizontal brass bar at the ends of which are standards with narrow slits for sighting, supported on a tripod by a ball and socket joint..

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..

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