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Xiphisternum :: Xiphisternum (n.) The xiphiplastron.

Orientalist :: Orientalist (n.) One versed in Eastern languages, literature, etc.; as, the Paris Congress of Orientalists..

Mesosternal :: Mesosternal (a.) Of or pertaining to the mesosternum.

Lansquenet :: Lansquenet (n.) A German foot soldier in foreign service in the 15th and 16th centuries; a soldier of fortune; -- a term used in France and Western Europe.

Angola Pea :: Angola pea () A tropical plant (Cajanus indicus) and its edible seed, a kind of pulse; -- so called from Angola in Western Africa. Called also pigeon pea and Congo pea..

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

Ludlow Group :: Ludlow group () A subdivision of the British Upper Silurian lying below the Old Red Sandstone; -- so named from the Ludlow, in Western England. See the Chart of Geology..

Zemni :: Zemni (n.) The blind mole rat (Spalax typhlus), native of Eastern Europe and Asia. Its eyes and ears are rudimentary, and its fur is soft and brownish, more or less tinged with gray. It constructs extensive burrows..

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..

Corral :: Corral (v. t.) To surround and inclose; to coop up; to put into an inclosed space; -- primarily used with reference to securing horses and cattle in an inclosure of wagons while traversing the plains, but in the Southwestern United States now colloquially applied to the capturing, securing, or penning of anything..

Escutcheon :: Escutcheon (n.) That part of a vessel's stern on which her name is written.

Sternebra :: Sternebrae (pl. ) of Sternebr.

Sea Cat :: Sea cat () Any marine siluroid fish, as Aelurichthys marinus, and Arinus felis, of the eastern coast of the United States. Many species are found on the coasts of Central and South America..

Mizzen :: Mizzen (a.) Hindmost; nearest the stern; as, the mizzen shrouds, sails, etc..

Broadbill :: Broadbill (n.) A wild duck (Aythya, / Fuligula, marila), which appears in large numbers on the eastern coast of the United States, in autumn; -- called also bluebill, blackhead, raft duck, and scaup duck. See Scaup duck..

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

Run :: Run (n.) The aftermost part of a vessel's hull where it narrows toward the stern, under the quarter..

Entosternum :: Entosternum (n.) See Entoplastron.

Pink-sterned :: Pink-sterned (a.) Having a very narrow stern; -- said of a vessel.

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..

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