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Ground :: Ground (n.) Land; estate; possession; field; esp. (pl.), the gardens, lawns, fields, etc., belonging to a homestead; as, the grounds of the estate are well kept..

Farmsteading :: Farmsteading (n.) A farmstead.

Falter :: Falter (v. & n.) To tremble; to totter; to be unsteady.

Variable :: Variable (n.) Those parts of the sea where a steady wind is not expected, especially the parts between the trade-wind belts..

Fid :: Fid (n.) A wooden or metal bar or pin, used to support or steady anything..

Coursing :: Coursing (n.) The pursuit or running game with dogs that follow by sight instead of by scent.

Mutilate :: Mutilate (a.) Having finlike appendages or flukes instead of legs, as a cetacean..

Surement :: Surely (adv.) Without danger; firmly; steadly; securely.

Courche :: Courche (n.) A square piece of linen used formerly by women instead of a cap; a kerchief.

Noonstead :: Noonstead (n.) The position of the sun at noon.

Inversion :: Inversion (n.) Said of a subject, or phrase, when the intervals of which it consists are repeated in the contrary direction, rising instead of falling, or vice versa..

Scamble :: Scamble (v. i.) To move awkwardly; to be shuffling, irregular, or unsteady; to sprawl; to shamble..

Hypallage :: Hypallage (n.) A figure consisting of a transference of attributes from their proper subjects to other. Thus Virgil says, dare classibus austros, to give the winds to the fleets, instead of dare classibus austris, to give the fleets to the winds..

Q :: Q () the seventeenth letter of the English alphabet, has but one sound (that of k), and is always followed by u, the two letters together being sounded like kw, except in some words in which the u is silent. See Guide to Pronunciation, / 249. Q is not found in Anglo-Saxon, cw being used instead of qu; as in cwic, quick; cwen, queen. The name (k/) is from the French ku, which is from the Latin name of the same letter; its form is from the Latin, which derived it, through a Greek alphabet, from th

Steady :: Steady (n.) Constant in feeling, purpose, or pursuit; not fickle, changeable, or wavering; not easily moved or persuaded to alter a purpose; resolute; as, a man steady in his principles, in his purpose, or in the pursuit of an object..

Inconsistent :: Inconsistent (a.) Not exhibiting uniformity of sentiment, steadiness to principle, etc.; unequal; fickle; changeable..

Vice :: Vice (prep.) In the place of; in the stead; as, A. B. was appointed postmaster vice C. D. resigned..

Balancereef :: Balancereef (n.) The last reef in a fore-and-aft sail, taken to steady the ship..

More :: More (adv.) With an adjective or adverb (instead of the suffix -er) to form the comparative degree; as, more durable; more active; more sweetly..

Handfast :: Handfast (n.) Strong; steadfast.

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