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Galilee :: Galilee (n.) A porch or waiting room, usually at the west end of an abbey church, where the monks collected on returning from processions, where bodies were laid previous to interment, and where women were allowed to see the monks to whom they were related, or to hear divine service. Also, frequently applied to the porch of a church, as at Ely and Durham cathedrals..

Church :: Church (v. t.) To bless according to a prescribed form, or to unite with in publicly returning thanks in church, as after deliverance from the dangers of childbirth; as, the churching of women..

Taciturn :: Taciturn (a.) Habitually silent; not given to converse; not apt to talk or speak.

Recourse :: Recourse (n.) A coursing back, or coursing again, along the line of a previous coursing; renewed course; return; retreat; recurence..

Volubile :: Volubile (a.) Turning, or whirling; winding; twining; voluble..

Taciturnity :: Taciturnity (n.) Habilual silence, or reserve in speaking..

Highmen :: Highmen (n. pl.) Loaded dice so contrived as to turn up high numbers.

Circumgyrate :: Circumgyrate (v. t. & i.) To roll or turn round; to cause to perform a rotary or circular motion.

Subdiaconate :: Subderivative (n.) A word derived from a derivative, and not directly from the root; as, friendliness is a subderivative, being derived from friendly, which is in turn a derivative from friend..

Return :: Return (n.) The rendering back or delivery of writ, precept, or execution, to the proper officer or court..

Gorgonize :: Gorgonize (v. t.) To have the effect of a Gorgon upon; to turn into stone; to petrify.

Pintle :: Pintle (n.) A hook or pin on which a rudder hangs and turns.

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..

Tailpin :: Tailpin (n.) The center in the spindle of a turning lathe.

Scale :: Scale (n.) The dish of a balance; hence, the balance itself; an instrument or machine for weighing; as, to turn the scale; -- chiefly used in the plural when applied to the whole instrument or apparatus for weighing. Also used figuratively..

Divert :: Divert (v. i.) To turn aside; to digress.

Redound :: Redound (n.) The coming back, as of consequence or effect; result; return; requital..

Turnpiking :: Turnpiking (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Turnpik.

Roller :: Roller (n.) Any one of numerous species of Old World picarian birds of the family Coraciadae. The name alludes to their habit of suddenly turning over or tumbling in flight..

Lathe :: Lathe (n.) A machine for turning, that is, for shaping articles of wood, metal, or other material, by causing them to revolve while acted upon by a cutting tool..

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