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Rake :: Rake (v. t.) To enfilade; to fire in a direction with the length of; in naval engagements, to cannonade, as a ship, on the stern or head so that the balls range the whole length of the deck..

Compluvium :: Compluvium (n.) A space left unroofed over the court of a Roman dwelling, through which the rain fell into the impluvium or cistern..

Poker :: Poker (n.) A game at cards derived from brag, and first played about 1835 in the Southwestern United States..

Counter :: Counter (adv.) The after part of a vessel's body, from the water line to the stern, -- below and somewhat forward of the stern proper..

Lade :: Lade (v. t.) To throw in out. with a ladle or dipper; to dip; as, to lade water out of a tub, or into a cistern..

Episternum :: Episternum (n.) One of the lateral pieces next to the sternum in the thorax of insects.

Exarch :: Exarch (n.) A viceroy; in Ravenna, the title of the viceroys of the Byzantine emperors; in the Eastern Church, the superior over several monasteries; in the modern Greek Church, a deputy of the patriarch , who visits the clergy, investigates ecclesiastical cases, etc..

Grimly :: Grimly (a.) Grim; hideous; stern.

Senecas :: Senecas (n. pl.) A tribe of Indians who formerly inhabited a part of Western New York. This tribe was the most numerous and most warlike of the Five Nations.

Sternebra :: Sternebrae (pl. ) of Sternebr.

Stepped :: Steppe (n.) One of the vast plains in Southeastern Europe and in Asia, generally elevated, and free from wood, analogous to many of the prairies in Western North America. See Savanna..

Sternums :: Sterna (pl. ) of Sternu.

Scull :: Scull (n.) A single oar used at the stern in propelling a boat.

Ghoul :: Ghoul (n.) An imaginary evil being among Eastern nations, which was supposed to feed upon human bodies..

Grisons :: Grisons (n. pl.) The largest and most eastern of the Swiss cantons.

Manubrium :: Manubrium (n.) A handlelike process or part; esp., the anterior segment of the sternum, or presternum, and the handlelike process of the malleus..

Torved :: Torved (a.) Stern; grim. See Torvous.

Sternal :: Sternage (n.) Stern.

Lambert Pine :: Lambert pine () The gigantic sugar pine of California and Oregon (Pinus Lambertiana). It has the leaves in fives, and cones a foot long. The timber is soft, and like that of the white pine of the Eastern States..

Hesperian :: Hesperian (a.) Western; being in the west; occidental.

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