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Unready :: Unready (a.) Not ready or prepared; not prompt; slow; awkward; clumsy.

Windy :: Windy (superl.) Next the wind; windward.

Anagram :: Anagram (n.) Literally, the letters of a word read backwards, but in its usual wider sense, the change or one word or phrase into another by the transposition of its letters. Thus Galenus becomes angelus; William Noy (attorney-general to Charles I., and a laborious man) may be turned into I moyl in law..

Straightforward :: Straightforward (a.) Proceeding in a straight course or manner; not deviating; honest; frank.

Come :: Come (n.) To complete a movement toward a place; to arrive.

Forthright :: Forthright (adv.) Straight forward; in a straight direction.

Hippe :: Hippe (n.) A genus of marine decapod crustaceans, which burrow rapidly in the sand by pushing themselves backward; -- called also bait bug. See Illust. under Anomura..

Poke :: Poke (n.) A contrivance to prevent an animal from leaping or breaking through fences. It consists of a yoke with a pole inserted, pointed forward..

Apodeme :: Apodeme (n.) One of the processes of the shell which project inwards and unite with one another, in the thorax of many Crustacea..

Castle-guard :: Castle-guard (n.) A tax or imposition an a dwelling within a certain distance of a castle, for the purpose of maintaining watch and ward in it; castle-ward..

Fluxion :: Fluxion (n.) An unnatural or excessive flow of blood or fluid toward any organ; a determination.

Drop :: Drop (n.) A door or platform opening downward; a trap door; that part of the gallows on which a culprit stands when he is to be hanged; hence, the gallows itself..

Compensation :: Compensation (n.) A recompense or reward for some loss or service.

Mercenary :: Mercenary (a.) Acting for reward; serving for pay; paid; hired; hireling; venal; as, mercenary soldiers..

Adducent :: Adducent (a.) Bringing together or towards a given point; -- a word applied to those muscles of the body which pull one part towards another. Opposed to abducent.

Oblanceolate :: Oblanceolate (a.) Lanceolate in the reversed order, that is, narrowing toward the point of attachment more than toward the apex..

Postic :: Postic (a.) Backward.

Gravitate :: Gravitate (v. i.) To obey the law of gravitation; to exert a force Or pressure, or tend to move, under the influence of gravitation; to tend in any direction or toward any object..

Proximad :: Proximad (adv.) Toward a proximal part; on the proximal side of; proximally.

Jaw :: "Jaw (n.) One of a pair of opposing parts which are movable towards or from each other, for grasping or crushing anything between them, as, the jaws of a vise, or the jaws of a stone-crushing machine..

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