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Stub :: Stub (n.) The short blunt part of anything after larger part has been broken off or used up; hence, anything short and thick; as, the stub of a pencil, candle, or cigar..

Tag :: Tag (v.) A child's play in which one runs after and touches another, and then runs away to avoid being touched..

Escuage :: Escuage (n.) Service of the shield, a species of knight service by which a tenant was bound to follow his lord to war, at his own charge. It was afterward exchanged for a pecuniary satisfaction. Called also scutage..

Apostate :: Apostate (n.) One who, after having received sacred orders, renounces his clerical profession..

Lanugo :: Lanugo (n.) The soft woolly hair which covers most parts of the mammal fetus, and in man is shed before or soon after birth..

Blanch :: Blanch (a.) To whiten, as the surface of meat, by plunging into boiling water and afterwards into cold, so as to harden the surface and retain the juices..

Then :: Then (adv.) Soon afterward, or immediately; next; afterward..

Hockday :: Hockday (n.) A holiday commemorating the expulsion of the Danes, formerly observed on the second Tuesday after Easter; -- called also hocktide..

Testament :: Testament (n.) A solemn, authentic instrument in writing, by which a person declares his will as to disposal of his estate and effects after his death..

Enumerate :: Enumerate (v. t.) To count; to tell by numbers; to count over, or tell off one after another; to number; to reckon up; to mention one by one; to name over; to make a special and separate account of; to recount; as, to enumerate the stars in a constellation..

Clough :: Clough (n.) A sluice used in returning water to a channel after depositing its sediment on the flooded land.

Elbow :: Elbow (v. i.) To jut into an angle; to project or to bend after the manner of an elbow.

Second :: Second (n.) One who, or that which, follows, or comes after; one next and inferior in place, time, rank, importance, excellence, or power..

Reassert :: Reassert (v. t.) To assert again or anew; to maintain after an omission to do so.

Purline :: Purline (n.) In root construction, a horizontal member supported on the principals and supporting the common rafters..

Postdate :: Postdate (v. t.) To date after the real time; as, to postdate a contract, that is, to date it later than the time when it was in fact made..

Reaction :: Reaction (n.) Backward tendency or movement after revolution, reform, or great progress in any direction..

Chouan :: Chouan (n.) One of the royalist insurgents in western France (Brittany, etc.), during and after the French revolution..

After :: After (prep.) Behind in place; as, men in line one after another..

Dowager :: Dowager (n.) A widow endowed, or having a jointure; a widow who either enjoys a dower from her deceased husband, or has property of her own brought by her to her husband on marriage, and settled on her after his decease..

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