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Stank :: Stank (n.) Water retained by an embankment; a pool water.

Charlatanry :: Charlatanry (n.) Undue pretensions to skill; quackery; wheedling; empiricism.

Transubstantiation :: Transubstantiation (n.) The doctrine held by Roman Catholics, that the bread and wine in the Mass is converted into the body and blood of Christ; -- distinguished from consubstantiation, and impanation..

Hobbyhorse :: Hobbyhorse (n.) A subject or plan upon which one is constantly setting off; a favorite and ever-recurring theme of discourse, thought, or effort; that which occupies one's attention unduly, or to the weariness of others; a ruling passion..

Doeglic :: Doeglic (a.) Pertaining to, or obtained from, the doegling; as, doeglic acid (Chem.), an oily substance resembling oleic acid..

Heterogenist :: Heterogenist (n.) One who believes in the theory of spontaneous generation, or heterogenesis..

Colure :: Colure (n.) One of two great circles intersecting at right angles in the poles of the equator. One of them passes through the equinoctial points, and hence is denominated the equinoctial colure; the other intersects the equator at the distance of 90¡ from the former, and is called the solstitial colure..

Ultramontane :: Ultramontane (n.) One who resides beyond the mountains, especially beyond the Alps; a foreigner..

Latitude :: Latitude (n.) Extent or breadth of signification, application, etc.; extent of deviation from a standard, as truth, style, etc..

Horrent :: Horrent (a.) Standing erect, as bristles; covered with bristling points; bristled; bristling..

Mate :: Mate (n.) An officer in a merchant vessel ranking next below the captain. If there are more than one bearing the title, they are called, respectively, first mate, second mate, third mate, etc. In the navy, a subordinate officer or assistant; as, master's mate; surgeon's mate..

Aborigines :: Aborigines (n. pl.) The earliest known inhabitants of a country; native races.

Eleemosynary :: Eleemosynary (a.) Given in charity or alms; having the nature of alms; as, eleemosynary assistance..

Winkle-hawk :: Winkle-hawk (n.) A rectangular rent made in cloth; -- called also winkle-hole.

Longimetry :: Longimetry (n.) The art or practice of measuring distances or lengths.

Populous :: Populous (a.) Abounding in people; full of inhabitants; containing many inhabitants in proportion to the extent of the country.

Standard :: Standard (n.) An inverted knee timber placed upon the deck instead of beneath it, with its vertical branch turned upward from that which lies horizontally..

Redoubt :: Redoubt (v. t.) To stand in dread of; to regard with fear; to dread.

Standard :: Standard (n.) That which is established as a rule or model by authority, custom, or general consent; criterion; test..

Sinistrin :: Sinistrin (n.) A mucilaginous carbohydrate, resembling achroodextrin, extracted from squill as a colorless amorphous substance; -- so called because it is levorotatory..

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