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Unicostate :: Unicostate (a.) Having a single rib or strong nerve running upward from the base; -- said of a leaf.

Extemporize :: Extemporize (v. t.) To do, make, or utter extempore or off-hand; to prepare in great haste, under urgent necessity, or with scanty or unsuitable materials; as, to extemporize a dinner, a costume, etc..

Costate :: Costate (a.) Alt. of Costate.

Schizopoda :: Schizopoda (n. pl.) A division of shrimplike Thoracostraca in which each of the thoracic legs has a long fringed upper branch (exopodite) for swimming.

Overcostly :: Overcostly (a.) Too costly.

Costive :: Costive (a.) Dry and hard; impermeable; unyielding.

Cost :: Cost (n.) See Cottise.

Ciclatoun :: Ciclatoun (n.) A costly cloth, of uncertain material, used in the Middle Ages..

Costermonger :: Costermonger (n.) An apple seller; a hawker of, or dealer in, any kind of fruit or vegetables; a fruiterer..

Thoracostraca :: Thoracostraca (a.) An extensive division of Crustacea, having a dorsal shield or carapec/ //niting all, or nearly all, of the thoracic somites to the head. It includes the crabs, lobsters, shrimps, and similar species..

Pentecoster :: Pentecoster (n.) An officer in the Spartan army commanding fifty men.

Bellybound :: Bellybound (a.) Costive; constipated.

Vair :: Vair (n.) The skin of the squirrel, much used in the fourteenth century as fur for garments, and frequently mentioned by writers of that period in describing the costly dresses of kings, nobles, and prelates. It is represented in heraldry by a series of small shields placed close together, and alternately white and blue..

Costal-nerved :: Costal-nerved (a.) Having the nerves spring from the midrib.

Pentecost :: Pentecost (n.) A solemn festival of the Jews; -- so called because celebrated on the fiftieth day (seven weeks) after the second day of the Passover (which fell on the sixteenth of the Jewish month Nisan); -- hence called, also, the Feast of Weeks. At this festival an offering of the first fruits of the harvest was made. By the Jews it was generally regarded as commemorative of the gift of the law on the fiftieth day after the departure from Egypt..

Placodermi :: Placodermi (n. pl.) An extinct group of fishes, supposed to be ganoids. The body and head were covered with large bony plates. See Illust. under Pterichthys, and Coccosteus..

Costated :: Costated (a.) Having ribs, or the appearance of ribs; (Bot.) having one or more longitudinal ribs..

Precious :: Precious (a.) Of great price; costly; as, a precious stone..

Sacrifice :: Sacrifice (n.) To sell at a price less than the cost or the actual value.

Crebricostate :: Crebricostate (a.) Marked with closely set ribs or ridges.

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