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Money-making :: Money-making (a.) Affording profitable returns; lucrative; as, a money-making business..

Irreturnable :: Irreturnable (a.) Not to be returned.

Capsize :: Capsize (v. t. & i.) To upset or overturn, as a vessel or other body..

Frequency :: Frequency (n.) The condition of returning frequently; occurrence often repeated; common occurence; as, the frequency of crimes; the frequency of miracles..

Retrousse :: Retrousse (a.) Turned up; -- said of a pug nose.

Pass :: Pass (v. i.) To decline to take an optional action when it is one's turn, as to decline to bid, or to bet, or to play a card; in euchre, to decline to make the trump..

Wimble :: Wimble (n.) An instrument for boring holes, turned by a handle..

Spermatogonium :: Spermatogonium (n.) A primitive seminal cell, occuring in masses in the seminal tubules. It divides into a mass (spermosphere) of small cells (spermoblast), which in turn give rise to spermatozoids..

Forerun :: Forerun (v. t.) To turn before; to precede; to be in advance of (something following).

Gouge :: Gouge (n.) A chisel, with a hollow or semicylindrical blade, for scooping or cutting holes, channels, or grooves, in wood, stone, etc.; a similar instrument, with curved edge, for turning wood..

Upset :: Upset (n.) The act of upsetting, or the state of being upset; an overturn; as, the wagon had an upset..

Return :: Return (n.) The turnings and windings of a trench or mine.

Introversion :: Introversion (n.) The act of introverting, or the state of being introverted; the act of turning the mind inward..

Whisket :: Whisket (n.) A small lathe for turning wooden pins.

Amphipoda :: Amphipoda (n. pl.) A numerous group of fourteen -- footed Crustacea, inhabiting both fresh and salt water. The body is usually compressed laterally, and the anterior pairs or legs are directed downward and forward, but the posterior legs are usually turned upward and backward. The beach flea is an example. See Tetradecapoda and Arthrostraca..

Serpentize :: Serpentize (v. i.) To turn or bend like a serpent, first in one direction and then in the opposite; to meander; to wind; to serpentine..

Spoked :: Spoke (n.) A contrivance for fastening the wheel of a vehicle, to prevent it from turning in going down a hill..

Deturn :: Deturn (v. t.) To turn away.

Concoction :: Concoction (n.) Abatement of a morbid process, as a fever and return to a normal condition..

Withernam :: Withernam (n.) A second or reciprocal distress of other goods in lieu of goods which were taken by a first distress and have been eloigned; a taking by way of reprisal; -- chiefly used in the expression capias in withernam, which is the name of a writ used in connection with the action of replevin (sometimes called a writ of reprisal), which issues to a defendant in replevin when he has obtained judgment for a return of the chattels replevied, and fails to obtain them on the writ of return..

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