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Whist :: Whist (n.) A certain game at cards; -- so called because it requires silence and close attention. It is played by four persons (those who sit opposite each other being partners) with a complete pack of fifty-two cards. Each player has thirteen cards, and when these are played out, he hand is finished, and the cards are again shuffled and distributed..

Wellhole :: Wellhole (n.) A cavity which receives a counterbalancing weight in certain mechanical contrivances, and is adapted also for other purposes..

Depardieux :: Depardieux (interj.) In God's name; certainly.

Level :: Level (n.) Hence, figuratively, a certain position, rank, standard, degree, quality, character, etc., conceived of as in one of several planes of different elevation..

Tubulidentate :: Tubulidentate (a.) Having teeth traversed by canals; -- said of certain edentates.

Corroborate :: Corroborate (v. t.) To make more certain; to confirm; to establish.

Truncated :: Truncated (a.) Lacking the apex; -- said of certain spiral shells in which the apex naturally drops off.

Group :: Group (n.) A variously limited assemblage of animals or plants, having some resemblance, or common characteristics in form or structure. The term has different uses, and may be made to include certain species of a genus, or a whole genus, or certain genera, or even several orders..

Cucullated :: Cucullated (a.) Having a hoodlike crest on the head, as certain birds, mammals, and reptiles..

Cognate :: Cognate (n.) One of a number of things allied in origin or nature; as, certain letters are cognates..

Abreast :: Abreast (adv.) Up to a certain level or line; equally advanced; as, to keep abreast of [or with] the present state of science..

Columella :: Columella (n.) The central pillar or axis of the calicles of certain corals.

Porism :: Porism (n.) A proposition affirming the possibility of finding such conditions as will render a certain determinate problem indeterminate or capable of innumerable solutions.

Tentaculocyst :: Tentaculocyst (n.) One of the auditory organs of certain medusae; -- called also auditory tentacle.

Paragnathus :: Paragnathus (n.) One of the small, horny, toothlike jaws of certain annelids..

Gum Ammoniac :: Gum ammoniac (n.) The concrete juice (gum resin) of an umbelliferous plant, the Dorema ammoniacum. It is brought chiefly from Persia in the form of yellowish tears, which occur singly, or are aggregated into masses. It has a peculiar smell, and a nauseous, sweet taste, followed by a bitter one. It is inflammable, partially soluble in water and in spirit of wine, and is used in medicine as an expectorant and resolvent, and for the formation of certain plasters..

Dipropargyl :: Dipropargyl (n.) A pungent, mobile, volatile liquid, C6H6, produced artificially from certain allyl derivatives. Though isomeric with benzine, it is very different in its chemical relations. Called also dipropinyl..

Dolabriform :: Dolabriform (a.) Shaped like the head of an ax or hatchet, as some leaves, and also certain organs of some shellfish..

Mid :: Mid (superl.) Made with a somewhat elevated position of some certain part of the tongue, in relation to the palate; midway between the high and the low; -- said of certain vowel sounds; as, a (ale), / (/ll), / (/ld). See Guide to Pronunciation, // 10, 11..

Woundwort :: Woundwort (n.) Any one of certain plants whose soft, downy leaves have been used for dressing wounds, as the kidney vetch, and several species of the labiate genus Stachys..

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