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Top-timbers :: Top-timbers (n.) The highest timbers on the side of a vessel, being those above the futtocks..

Forestall :: Forestall (v. t.) To obstruct or stop up, as a way; to stop the passage of on highway; to intercept on the road, as goods on the way to market..

Phytophagy :: Phytophagy (n.) The eating of plants.

Osmund :: Osmund (n.) A fern of the genus Osmunda, or flowering fern. The most remarkable species is the osmund royal, or royal fern (Osmunda regalis), which grows in wet or boggy places, and has large bipinnate fronds, often with a panicle of capsules at the top. The rootstock contains much starch, and has been used in stiffening linen..

Turbinated :: Turbinated (a.) Whirling in the manner of a top.

Top-block :: Top-block (n.) A large ironbound block strapped with a hook, and, when used, hung to an eyebolt in the cap, -- used in swaying and lowering the topmast..

Pycnite :: Pycnite (n.) A massive subcolumnar variety of topaz.

Halt :: Halt (n.) A stop in marching or walking, or in any action; arrest of progress..

Stope :: Stope (v. t.) To fill in with rubbish, as a space from which the ore has been worked out..

Stopship :: Stopple (v. t.) To close the mouth of anything with a stopple, or as with a stopple..

Cap :: Cap (n.) The top, or uppermost part; the chief..

Metabolism :: Metabolism (n.) The act or process, by which living tissues or cells take up and convert into their own proper substance the nutritive material brought to them by the blood, or by which they transform their cell protoplasm into simpler substances, which are fitted either for excretion or for some special purpose, as in the manufacture of the digestive ferments. Hence, metabolism may be either constructive (anabolism), or destructive (katabolism)..

Woolder :: Woolder (n.) One of the handles of the top, formed by a wooden pin passing through it. See 1st Top, 2..

Notopodiums :: Notopodiums (pl. ) of Notopodiu.

Avast :: Avast (a.) Cease; stop; stay.

High-top :: High-top (n.) A ship's masthead.

Interruption :: Interruption (n.) Obstruction caused by breaking in upon course, current, progress, or motion; stop; hindrance; as, the author has met with many interruptions in the execution of his work; the speaker or the argument proceeds without interruption..

Dispart :: Dispart (n.) A piece of metal placed on the muzzle, or near the trunnions, on the top of a piece of ordnance, to make the line of sight parallel to the axis of the bore; -- called also dispart sight, and muzzle sight..

Topau :: Topau (n.) The rhinocerous bird (a).

Pointer :: Pointer (n.) One of a breed of dogs trained to stop at scent of game, and with the nose point it out to sportsmen..

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