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Buttock :: Buttock (n.) The convexity of a ship behind, under the stern..

Mesquit :: Mesquit (n.) A name for two trees of the southwestern part of North America, the honey mesquite, and screw-pod mesquite..

Brontotherium :: Brontotherium (n.) A genus of large extinct mammals from the miocene strata of western North America. They were allied to the rhinoceros, but the skull bears a pair of powerful horn cores in front of the orbits, and the fore feet were four-toed. See Illustration in Appendix..

Abaft :: Abaft (adv.) Toward the stern; aft; as, to go abaft..

Hood :: Hood (n.) The endmost plank of a strake which reaches the stem or stern.

Mohicans :: Mohicans (n. pl.) A tribe of Lenni-Lenape Indians who formerly inhabited Western Connecticut and Eastern New York.

Dandy :: Dandy (n.) A small sail carried at or near the stern of small boats; -- called also jigger, and mizzen..

Bit :: Bit (v.) In the Southern and Southwestern States, a small silver coin (as the real) formerly current; commonly, one worth about 12 1/2 cents; also, the sum of 12 1/2 cents..

Scull :: Scull (v. t.) To impel (a boat) with a pair of sculls, or with a single scull or oar worked over the stern obliquely from side to side..

Ponent :: Ponent (a.) Western; occidental.

Yesternight :: Yesternight (adv.) On the last night.

Shawnees :: Shawnees (n. pl.) A tribe of North American Indians who occupied Western New York and part of Ohio, but were driven away and widely dispersed by the Iroquois..

Stern :: Stern (v. t.) The helm or tiller of a vessel or boat; also, the rudder..

Hesperian :: Hesperian (n.) A native or an inhabitant of a western country.

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

Astern :: Astern (adv.) In or at the hinder part of a ship; toward the hinder part, or stern; backward; as, to go astern..

Sulphurate :: Sulphur (n.) Any one of numerous species of yellow or orange butterflies of the subfamily Pierinae; as, the clouded sulphur (Eurymus, / Colias, philodice), which is the common yellow butterfly of the Eastern United States..

Pocoson :: Pocoson (n.) Low, wooded grounds or swamps in Eastern Maryland and Virginia..

Chebacco :: Chebacco (n.) A narrow-sterned boat formerly much used in the Newfoundland fisheries; -- called also pinkstern and chebec.

Sternohyoid :: Sternocostal (a.) Of or pertaining to the sternum and the ribs; as, the sternocostal cartilages..

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