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Redfin :: Redfin (n.) A small North American dace (Minnilus cornutus, or Notropis megalops). The male, in the breeding season, has bright red fins. Called also red dace, and shiner. Applied also to Notropis ardens, of the Mississippi valley..

Bank :: Bank (n.) A bench, as for rowers in a galley; also, a tier of oars..

Dell :: Dell (n.) A small, retired valley; a ravine..

Goggle-eye :: Goggle-eye (n.) One of two or more species of American fresh-water fishes of the family Centrarchidae, esp. Chaenobryttus antistius, of Lake Michigan and adjacent waters, and Ambloplites rupestris, of the Great Lakes and Mississippi Valley; -- so called from their prominent eyes..

Galleys :: Galleys (pl. ) of Galle.

Waldenses :: Waldenses (n. pl.) A sect of dissenters from the ecclesiastical system of the Roman Catholic Church, who in the 13th century were driven by persecution to the valleys of Piedmont, where the sect survives. They profess substantially Protestant principles..

Galley-bird :: Galley-bird (n.) The European green woodpecker; also, the spotted woodpecker..

Ramberge :: Ramberge (n.) Formerly, a kind of large war galley..

Station :: Station (n.) An enlargement in a shaft or galley, used as a landing, or passing place, or for the accomodation of a pump, tank, etc..

Galiot :: Galiot (n.) A small galley, formerly used in the Mediterranean, built mainly for speed. It was moved both by sails and oars, having one mast, and sixteen or twenty seats for rowers..

Close :: Close (v. t.) Narrow; confined; as, a close alley; close quarters..

Lane :: Lane (n.) A passageway between fences or hedges which is not traveled as a highroad; an alley between buildings; a narrow way among trees, rocks, and other natural obstructions; hence, in a general sense, a narrow passageway; as, a lane between lines of men, or through a field of ice..

Subject :: Subjacent (a.) Being in a lower situation, though not directly beneath; as, hills and subjacent valleys..

Quadrireme :: Quadrireme (n.) A galley with four banks of oars or rowers.

Yoncopin :: Yoncopin (n.) A local name in parts of the Mississippi Valley for the American lotus (Nelumbo lutea).

Tophet :: Tophet (n.) A place lying east or southeast of Jerusalem, in the valley of Hinnom..

Till :: Till (n.) A deposit of clay, sand, and gravel, without lamination, formed in a glacier valley by means of the waters derived from the melting glaciers; -- sometimes applied to alluvium of an upper river terrace, when not laminated, and appearing as if formed in the same manner..

Galley :: Galley (n.) One of the small boats carried by a man-of-war.

Aisle :: Aisle (n.) Also (perhaps from confusion with alley), a passage into which the pews of a church open..

Copts :: Copts (n. pl.) The principal sect of Christians in Egypt and the valley of the Nile.

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