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Westward :: Westward (n.) The western region or countries; the west.

Sea Fan :: Sea fan () Any gorgonian which branches in a fanlike form, especially Gorgonia flabellum of Florida and the West Indies..

Abacus :: Abacus (n.) A calculating table or frame; an instrument for performing arithmetical calculations by balls sliding on wires, or counters in grooves, the lowest line representing units, the second line, tens, etc. It is still employed in China..

Undermost :: Undermost (a.) Lowest, as in place, rank, or condition..

Shallon :: Shallon (n.) An evergreen shrub (Gaultheria Shallon) of Northwest America; also, its fruit. See Salal-berry..

Limbat :: Limbat (n.) A cooling periodical wind in the Isle of Cyprus, blowing from the northwest from eight o'clock, A. M., to the middle of the day or later..

Eophyte :: Eophyte (n.) A fossil plant which is found in the lowest beds of the Silurian age.

Least :: Least (a.) Smallest, either in size or degree; shortest; lowest; most unimportant; as, the least insect; the least mercy; the least space..

Maroon :: Maroon (n.) In the West Indies and Guiana, a fugitive slave, or a free negro, living in the mountains..

Conch :: Conch (n.) A name applied to various marine univalve shells; esp. to those of the genus Strombus, which are of large size. S. gigas is the large pink West Indian conch. The large king, queen, and cameo conchs are of the genus Cassis. See Cameo..

Water Line :: Water line () Any one of several lines marked upon the outside of a vessel, corresponding with the surface of the water when she is afloat on an even keel. The lowest line indicates the vessel's proper submergence when not loaded, and is called the light water line; the highest, called the load water line, indicates her proper submergence when loaded..

Tag-rag :: Tag-rag (n. & a.) The lowest class of people; the rabble. Cf. Rag, tag, and bobtail, under Bobtail..

Down :: Down (adv.) In a low or the lowest position, literally or figuratively; at the bottom of a decent; below the horizon; of the ground; in a condition of humility, dejection, misery, and the like; in a state of quiet..

Poker :: Poker (n.) A game at cards derived from brag, and first played about 1835 in the Southwestern United States..

Acrania :: Acrania (n.) The lowest group of Vertebrata, including the amphioxus, in which no skull exists..

Plebe :: Plebe (n.) A member of the lowest class in the military academy at West Point.

Dakotas :: Dakotas (n. pl) An extensive race or stock of Indians, including many tribes, mostly dwelling west of the Mississippi River; -- also, in part, called Sioux..

Humpback :: Humpback (n.) A small salmon (Oncorhynchus gorbuscha), of the northwest coast of America..

Mestee :: Mestee (n.) The offspring of a white person and a quadroon; -- so called in the West Indies.

Hesperian :: Hesperian (n.) A native or an inhabitant of a western country.

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