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Hundredweight :: Hundredweight (n.) A denomination of weight, containing 100, 112, or 120 pounds avoirdupois, according to differing laws or customs. By the legal standard of England it is 112 pounds. In most of the United States, both in practice and by law, it is 100 pounds avoirdupois, the corresponding ton of 2,000 pounds, sometimes called the short ton, being the legal ton..

Ceremonious :: Ceremonious (a.) According to prescribed or customary rules and forms; devoted to forms and ceremonies; formally respectful; punctilious.

Soc :: Soc (n.) Liberty or privilege of tenants excused from customary burdens.

Chinook :: Chinook (n.) One of a tribe of North American Indians now living in the state of Washington, noted for the custom of flattening their skulls. Chinooks also called Flathead Indians..

Abrogate :: Abrogate (v. t.) To annul by an authoritative act; to abolish by the authority of the maker or his successor; to repeal; -- applied to the repeal of laws, decrees, ordinances, the abolition of customs, etc..

Harlotry :: Harlotry (n.) The trade or practice of prostitution; habitual or customary lewdness.

Endogamy :: Endogamy (n.) Marriage only within the tribe; a custom restricting a man in his choice of a wife to the tribe to which he belongs; -- opposed to exogamy.

Institution :: Institution (n.) Established order, method, or custom; enactment; ordinance; permanent form of law or polity..

Douane :: Douane (n.) A customhouse.

Inveteracy :: Inveteracy (n.) Firm establishment by long continuance; firmness or deep-rooted obstinacy of any quality or state acquired by time; as, the inveteracy of custom, habit, or disease; -- usually in a bad sense; as, the inveteracy of prejudice or of error..

Xenomania :: Xenomania (n.) A mania for, or an inordinate attachment to, foreign customs, institutions, manners, fashions, etc..

Galley :: Galley (n.) A light, open boat used on the Thames by customhouse officers, press gangs, and also for pleasure..

Customable :: Customable (a.) Subject to the payment of customs; dutiable.

Gossip :: Gossip (n.) A friend or comrade; a companion; a familiar and customary acquaintance.

Custom :: Custom (v. t.) To make familiar; to accustom.

Libertine :: Libertine (n.) One of a sect of Anabaptists, in the fifteenth and early part of the sixteenth century, who rejected many of the customs and decencies of life, and advocated a community of goods and of women..

Usant :: Usant (a.) Using; accustomed.

Naked :: Naked (a.) Without pubescence; as, a naked leaf or stem; bare, or not covered by the customary parts, as a flower without a perianth, a stem without leaves, seeds without a pericarp, buds without bud scales..

Mate :: Mate (n.) One who customarily associates with another; a companion; an associate; any object which is associated or combined with a similar object.

Eccentricity :: Eccentricity (n.) The state of being eccentric; deviation from the customary line of conduct; oddity.

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