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Urosteon :: Urosteon (n.) A median ossification back of the lophosteon in the sternum of some birds.

Stern :: Stern (v. t.) Fig.: The post of management or direction.

Float :: Float (v. i.) The hollow, metallic ball of a self-acting faucet, which floats upon the water in a cistern or boiler..

Ban :: Ban (n.) An ancient title of the warden of the eastern marches of Hungary; now, a title of the viceroy of Croatia and Slavonia..

Ark :: Ark (n.) A large flatboat used on Western American rivers to transport produce to market.

Snowbird :: Snowbird (n.) Any finch of the genus Junco which appears in flocks in winter time, especially J. hyemalis in the Eastern United States; -- called also blue snowbird. See Junco..

Couscous :: Couscous (n.) A kind of food used by the natives of Western Africa, made of millet flour with flesh, and leaves of the baobab; -- called also lalo..

Amplitude :: Amplitude (n.) The arc of the horizon between the true east or west point and the center of the sun, or a star, at its rising or setting. At the rising, the amplitude is eastern or ortive: at the setting, it is western, occiduous, or occasive. It is also northern or southern, when north or south of the equator..

Easternmost :: Easternmost (a.) Most eastern.

Cat-hole :: Cat-hole (n.) One of two small holes astern, above the gunroom ports, through which hawsers may be passed..

Catonian :: Catonian (a.) Of, pertaining to, or resembling, the stern old Roman, Cato the Censor; severe; inflexible..

Chaser :: Chaser (n.) Same as Chase gun, esp. in terms bow chaser and stern chaser. See under Bow, Stern..

Scythian :: Scythian (n.) A native or inhabitant of Scythia; specifically (Ethnol.), one of a Slavonic race which in early times occupied Eastern Europe..

Prothesis :: Prothesis (n.) A credence table; -- so called by the Eastern or Greek Church.

Score :: Score (n.) To mark with parallel lines or scratches; as, the rocks of New England and the Western States were scored in the drift epoch..

Nightingale :: Nightingale (n.) A larger species (Lucinia philomela), of Eastern Europe, having similar habits; the thrush nightingale. The name is also applied to other allied species..

Bluestone :: Bluestone (n.) A grayish blue building stone, as that commonly used in the eastern United States..

Cayugas :: Cayugas (n. pl.) A tribe of Indians formerly inhabiting western New-York, forming part of the confederacy called the Five Nations..

Prosternation :: Prosternation (n.) Dejection; depression.

Castellated :: Castellated (a.) Inclosed within a building; as, a fountain or cistern castellated..

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