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Jockey :: "Jockey (v. t.) To play the jockey toward; to cheat; to trick; to impose upon in trade; as, to jockey a customer..

Hecatompedon :: Hecatompedon (n.) A name given to the old Parthenon at Athens, because measuring 100 Greek feet, probably in the width across the stylobate..

Skimmington :: Skimmington (n.) A word employed in the phrase, To ride Skimmington; that is to ride on a horse with a woman, but behind her, facing backward, carrying a distaff, and accompanied by a procession of jeering neighbors making mock music; a cavalcade in ridicule of a henpecked man. The custom was in vogue in parts of England..

Burr :: Burr (n.) The knot at the bottom of an antler. See Bur, n., 8..

Harlotry :: Harlotry (n.) The trade or practice of prostitution; habitual or customary lewdness.

Imide :: Imide (n.) A compound with, or derivative of, the imido group; specif., a compound of one or more acid radicals with the imido group, or with a monamine; hence, also, a derivative of ammonia, in which two atoms of hydrogen have been replaced by divalent basic or acid radicals; -- frequently used as a combining form; as, succinimide..

Butyl :: Butyl (n.) A compound radical, regarded as butane, less one atom of hydrogen..

Pseudostoma :: Pseudostoma (n.) A group of cells resembling a stoma, but without any true aperture among them..

Acetylene :: Acetylene (n.) A gaseous compound of carbon and hydrogen, in the proportion of two atoms of the former to two of the latter. It is a colorless gas, with a peculiar, unpleasant odor, and is produced for use as an illuminating gas in a number of ways, but chiefly by the action of water on calcium carbide. Its light is very brilliant..

Psalterium :: Psalterium (n.) The third stomach of ruminants. See Manyplies.

Conservative :: Conservative (n.) One who desires to maintain existing institutions and customs; also, one who holds moderate opinions in politics; -- opposed to revolutionary or radical..

Gastro- :: Gastro- () A combining form from the Gr. /, /, the stomach, or belly; as in gastrocolic, gastrocele, gastrotomy..

Entomophagan :: Entomophagan (n.) One of the Entomophaga.

Calcium :: Calcium (n.) An elementary substance; a metal which combined with oxygen forms lime. It is of a pale yellow color, tenacious, and malleable. It is a member of the alkaline earth group of elements. Atomic weight 40. Symbol Ca..

Spew :: Spew (v. t.) To eject from the stomach; to vomit.

Gorget :: Gorget (n.) A cutting instrument used in lithotomy.

Water Bailiff :: Water bailiff () An officer of the customs, whose duty it is to search vessels..

Bottom :: Bottom (n.) The fundament; the buttocks.

Splenotomy :: Splenotomy (n.) Dissection or anatomy of the spleen.

Floor :: Floor (n.) The bottom or lower part of any room; the part upon which we stand and upon which the movables in the room are supported.

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