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Osteomanty :: Osteomanty (n.) Divination by means of bones.

Guest Rope :: Guest rope () The line by which a boat makes fast to the swinging boom.

Ask :: Ask (v. t.) To require, demand, claim, or expect, whether by way of remuneration or return, or as a matter of necessity; as, what price do you ask?.

Disjoint :: Disjoint (v. t.) To separate the joints of; to separate, as parts united by joints; to put out of joint; to force out of its socket; to dislocate; as, to disjoint limbs; to disjoint bones; to disjoint a fowl in carving..

Spore :: Spore (n.) A minute grain or germ; a small, round or ovoid body, formed in certain organisms, and by germination giving rise to a new organism; as, the reproductive spores of bacteria, etc..

Ekaboron :: Ekaboron (n.) The name given by Mendelejeff in accordance with the periodic law, and by prediction, to a hypothetical element then unknown, but since discovered and named scandium; -- so called because it was a missing analogue of the boron group. See Scandium..

Homage :: Homage (v. t.) To pay reverence to by external action.

H :: H () The seventh degree in the diatonic scale, being used by the Germans for B natural. See B..

Redisseizin :: Redisseizin (n.) A disseizin by one who once before was adjudged to have dassezed the same person of the same lands, etc.; also, a writ which lay in such a case..

Good :: Good (superl.) Serviceable; suited; adapted; suitable; of use; to be relied upon; -- followed especially by for.

Neocracy :: Neocracy (n.) Government by new or inexperienced hands; upstart rule; raw or untried officials.

Embank :: Embank (v. t.) To throw up a bank so as to confine or to defend; to protect by a bank of earth or stone.

Growl :: Growl (n.) The deep, threatening sound made by a surly dog; a grumbling sound..

About-sledge :: About-sledge (n.) The largest hammer used by smiths.

Praetexta :: Praetexta (n.) A white robe with a purple border, worn by a Roman boy before he was entitled to wear the toga virilis, or until about the completion of his fourteenth year, and by girls until their marriage. It was also worn by magistrates and priests..

Amphiaster :: Amphiaster (n.) The achromatic figure, formed in mitotic cell-division, consisting of two asters connected by a spindle-shaped bundle of rodlike fibers diverging from each aster, and called the spindle..

Privatively :: Privatively (adv.) In a privative manner; by the absence of something; negatively.

Preterit :: Preterit (a.) Belonging wholly to the past; passed by.

Visible :: Visible (a.) Perceivable by the eye; capable of being seen; perceptible; in view; as, a visible star; the least spot is visible on white paper..

Rounce :: Rounce (n.) The handle by which the bed of a hand press, holding the form of type, etc., is run in under the platen and out again; -- sometimes applied to the whole apparatus by which the form is moved under the platen..

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