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Skim :: Skim (v. i.) To hasten along with superficial attention.

Glide :: Glide (v. i.) To move gently and smoothly; to pass along without noise, violence, or apparent effort; to pass rapidly and easily, or with a smooth, silent motion, as a river in its channel, a bird in the air, a skater over ice..

Dorsibranchiate :: Dorsibranchiate (a.) Having branchiae along the back; belonging to the Dorsibranchiata.

Bowl :: Bowl (v. i.) To move rapidly, smoothly, and like a ball; as, the carriage bowled along..

Patrol :: Patrol (v. i.) To go the rounds along a chain of sentinels; to traverse a police district or beat.

Wing :: Wing (n.) Any membranaceous expansion, as that along the sides of certain stems, or of a fruit of the kind called samara..

Fault :: Fault (v. t.) To interrupt the continuity of (rock strata) by displacement along a plane of fracture; -- chiefly used in the p. p.; as, the coal beds are badly faulted..

Prime :: Prime (v. i.) To work so that foaming occurs from too violent ebullition, which causes water to become mixed with, and be carried along with, the steam that is formed; -- said of a steam boiler..

Lirella :: Lirella (n.) A linear apothecium furrowed along the middle; the fruit of certain lichens.

Drag :: Drag (v. i.) To be drawn along, as a rope or dress, on the ground; to trail; to be moved onward along the ground, or along the bottom of the sea, as an anchor that does not hold..

Lugworm :: Lugworm (n.) A large marine annelid (Arenicola marina) having a row of tufted gills along each side of the back. It is found burrowing in sandy beaches, both in America and Europe, and is used for bait by European fishermen. Called also lobworm, and baitworm..

Diluvial :: Diluvial (a.) Effected or produced by a flood or deluge of water; -- said of coarse and imperfectly stratified deposits along ancient or existing water courses. Similar unstratified deposits were formed by the agency of ice. The time of deposition has been called the Diluvian epoch.

Leopard :: Leopard (n.) A large, savage, carnivorous mammal (Felis leopardus). It is of a yellow or fawn color, with rings or roselike clusters of black spots along the back and sides. It is found in Southern Asia and Africa. By some the panther (Felis pardus) is regarded as a variety of leopard..

Train :: Train (v.) That which draws along; especially, persuasion, artifice, or enticement; allurement..

Draff :: Draff (n.) A narrow border worked to a plane surface along the edge of a stone, or across its face, as a guide to the stone-cutter..

Drakestone :: Drakestone (n.) A flat stone so thrown along the surface of water as to skip from point to point before it sinks; also, the sport of so throwing stones; -- sometimes called ducks and drakes..

Along :: Along (prep.) By the length of, as distinguished from across..

By :: By (pref.) In the neighborhood of; near or next to; not far from; close to; along with; as, come and sit by me..

Brob :: Brob (n.) A peculiar brad-shaped spike, to be driven alongside the end of an abutting timber to prevent its slipping..

Impracticable :: Impracticable (a.) Not to be overcome, presuaded, or controlled by any reasonable method; unmanageable; intractable; not capable of being easily dealt with; -- used in a general sense, as applied to a person or thing that is difficult to control or get along with..

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