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Metaphysic :: Metaphysic (a.) Metaphysical.

Antapoplectic :: Antapoplectic (a.) Good against apoplexy.

Ditty-bag :: Ditty-bag (n.) A sailor's small bag to hold thread, needles, tape, etc.; -- also called sailor's housewife..

Gehenna :: Gehenna (n.) The valley of Hinnom, near Jerusalem, where some of the Israelites sacrificed their children to Moloch, which, on this account, was afterward regarded as a place of abomination, and made a receptacle for all the refuse of the city, perpetual fires being kept up in order to prevent pestilential effluvia. In the New Testament the name is transferred, by an easy metaphor, to Hell..

Tapeline :: Tapeline (n.) A painted tape, marked with linear dimensions, as inches, feet, etc., and often inclosed in a case, -- used for measuring..

Abroach :: Abroach (adv.) Broached; in a condition for letting out or yielding liquor, as a cask which is tapped..

Metaphorical :: Metaphorical (a.) Of or pertaining to metaphor; comprising a metaphor; not literal; figurative; tropical; as, a metaphorical expression; a metaphorical sense..

Entangle :: Entangle (v. t.) To involve in such complications as to render extrication a bewildering difficulty; hence, metaphorically, to insnare; to perplex; to bewilder; to puzzle; as, to entangle the feet in a net, or in briers..

Lick-spigot :: Lick-spigot (n.) A tapster.

Heeltap :: Heeltap (v. t.) To add a piece of leather to the heel of (a shoe, boot, etc.).

Measles :: Measles (n.) A disease of cattle and swine in which the flesh is filled with the embryos of different varieties of the tapeworm.

Manioc :: Manioc (n.) The tropical plants (Manihot utilissima, and M. Aipi), from which cassava and tapioca are prepared; also, cassava..

Vestlet :: Vestlet (n.) Any one of several species of actinians belonging to the genus Cerianthus. These animals have a long, smooth body tapering to the base, and two separate circles of tentacles around the mouth. They form a tough, flexible, feltlike tube with a smooth internal lining, in which they dwell, whence the name..

Cartoon :: Cartoon (n.) A design or study drawn of the full size, to serve as a model for transferring or copying; -- used in the making of mosaics, tapestries, fresco pantings and the like; as, the cartoons of Raphael..

Tint :: Tint (n.) A shaded effect produced by the juxtaposition of many fine parallel lines.

Paracentesis :: Paracentesis (n.) The perforation of a cavity of the body with a trocar, aspirator, or other suitable instrument, for the evacuation of effused fluid, pus, or gas; tapping..

Juxtapose :: Juxtapose (v. t.) To place in juxtaposition.

Tap :: Tap (v. t.) To put a new sole or heel on; as, to tap shoes..

Gid :: Gid (a.) A disease of sheep, characterized by vertigo; the staggers. It is caused by the presence of the C/nurus, a larval tapeworm, in the brain. See C/nurus..

Epitapher :: Epitapher (n.) A writer of epitaphs.

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