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Score :: Score (n.) The original and entire draught, or its transcript, of a composition, with the parts for all the different instruments or voices written on staves one above another, so that they can be read at a glance; -- so called from the bar, which, in its early use, was drawn through all the parts..

Distaves :: Distaves (pl. ) of Distaf.

Stove :: Staved (imp. & p. p.) of Stav.

Shook :: Shook (v. t.) To pack, as staves, in a shook..

Piggin :: Piggin (n.) A small wooden pail or tub with an upright stave for a handle, -- often used as a dipper..

Chine :: Chine (v. t.) Too chamfer the ends of a stave and form the chine..

Tub :: Tub (n.) An open wooden vessel formed with staves, bottom, and hoops; a kind of short cask, half barrel, or firkin, usually with but one head, -- used for various purposes..

Delphinine :: Delphinine (n.) A poisonous alkaloid extracted from the stavesacre (Delphinium staphisagria), as a colorless amorphous powder..

Lag :: Lag (n.) A stave of a cask, drum, etc.; especially (Mach.), one of the narrow boards or staves forming the covering of a cylindrical object, as a boiler, or the cylinder of a carding machine or a steam engine..

Verse :: Verse (n.) A stanza; a stave; as, a hymn of four verses..

Staving :: Stavewood (n.) A tall tree (Simaruba amara) growing in tropical America. It is one of the trees which yields quassia.

Stavewood :: Stavesacre (n.) A kind of larkspur (Delphinium Staphysagria), and its seeds, which are violently purgative and emetic. They are used as a parasiticide, and in the East for poisoning fish..

Frow :: Frow (n.) A cleaving tool with handle at right angles to the blade, for splitting cask staves and shingles from the block; a frower..

Palstave :: Palstave (n.) A peculiar bronze adz, used in prehistoric Europe about the middle of the bronze age..

Shake :: Shake (n.) One of the staves of a hogshead or barrel taken apart.

Stavesacre :: Staves (pl.) pl. of Stave.

Bouge :: Bouge (v. t.) To stave in; to bilge.

Succulence :: Succula (n.) A bare axis or cylinder with staves or levers in it to turn it round, but without any drum..

Stave :: Stave (n.) To furnish with staves or rundles.

Staw :: Staving (n.) A cassing or lining of staves; especially, one encircling a water wheel..

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