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Swarm :: Swarm (v. i.) To climb a tree, pole, or the like, by embracing it with the arms and legs alternately. See Shin..

Pteridophyta :: Pteridophyta (n. pl.) A class of flowerless plants, embracing ferns, horsetails, club mosses, quillworts, and other like plants. See the Note under Cryptogamia..

Stemless :: Stem-clasping (a.) Embracing the stem with its base; amplexicaul; as a leaf or petiole.

Sixth :: Sixth (n.) The interval embracing six diatonic degrees of the scale.

Embracing :: Embracing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Embrac.

Arthropoda :: Arthropoda (n. pl.) A large division of Articulata, embracing all those that have jointed legs. It includes Insects, Arachnida, Pychnogonida, and Crustacea..

Grasp :: Grasp (v. t.) To seize and hold by clasping or embracing with the fingers or arms; to catch to take possession of.

Bracing :: Bracing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Brac.

Clip :: Clip (n.) An embracing strap for holding parts together; the iron strap, with loop, at the ends of a whiffletree..

Fifth :: Fifth (n.) The interval of three tones and a semitone, embracing five diatonic degrees of the scale; the dominant of any key..

Shin :: Shin (v. i.) To climb a mast, tree, rope, or the like, by embracing it alternately with the arms and legs, without help of steps, spurs, or the like; -- used with up; as, to shin up a mast..

Literature :: Literature (n.) The collective body of literary productions, embracing the entire results of knowledge and fancy preserved in writing; also, the whole body of literary productions or writings upon a given subject, or in reference to a particular science or branch of knowledge, or of a given country or period; as, the literature of Biblical criticism; the literature of chemistry..

Circumflex :: Circumflex (n.) A wave of the voice embracing both a rise and fall or a fall and a rise on the same a syllable.

Bracing :: Bracing (n.) The act of strengthening, supporting, or propping, with a brace or braces; the state of being braced..

Enaliosauria :: Enaliosauria (n. pl.) An extinct group of marine reptiles, embracing both the Ichthyosauria and the Plesiosauria, now regarded as distinct orders..

Shire :: Shire (n.) A division of a State, embracing several contiguous townships; a county..

Osculant :: Osculant (a.) Adhering closely; embracing; -- applied to certain creeping animals, as caterpillars..

Oxbow :: Oxbow (n.) A frame of wood, bent into the shape of the letter U, and embracing an ox's neck as a kind of collar, the upper ends passing through the bar of the yoke; also, anything so shaped, as a bend in a river..

Grasping :: Grasping (a.) Seizing; embracing; catching.

Encyclopedical :: Encyclopedical (a.) Pertaining to, or of the nature of, an encyclopedia; embracing a wide range of subjects..

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