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Rebuke :: Rebuke (v. t.) To check, silence, or put down, with reproof; to restrain by expression of disapprobation; to reprehend sharply and summarily; to chide; to reprove; to admonish..

Pitch :: Pitch (n.) A thick, black, lustrous, and sticky substance obtained by boiling down tar. It is used in calking the seams of ships; also in coating rope, canvas, wood, ironwork, etc., to preserve them..

Rule :: Rule (a.) That which is prescribed or laid down as a guide for conduct or action; a governing direction for a specific purpose; an authoritative enactment; a regulation; a prescription; a precept; as, the rules of various societies; the rules governing a school; a rule of etiquette or propriety; the rules of cricket..

Nappy :: Nappy (a.) Having a nap or pile; downy; shaggy.

Popple :: Popple (v. i.) To move quickly up and down; to bob up and down, as a cork on rough water; also, to bubble..

Dip :: Dip (v. i.) To incline downward from the plane of the horizon; as, strata of rock dip..

Jolt :: "Jolt (v. t.) To cause to shake with a sudden up and down motion, as in a carriage going over rough ground, or on a high-trotting horse; as, the horse jolts the rider; fast driving jolts the carriage and the passengers..

Dismount :: Dismount (v. t.) To take down, or apart, as a machine..

Upsidown :: Upsidown (adv.) See Upsodown.

Cottony :: Cottony (a.) Covered with hairs or pubescence, like cotton; downy; nappy; woolly..

Piliform :: Piliform (a.) Resembling hairs or down.

Catoptromancy :: Catoptromancy (n.) A species of divination, which was performed by letting down a mirror into water, for a sick person to look at his face in it. If his countenance appeared distorted and ghastly, it was an ill omen; if fresh and healthy, it was favorable..

Glissade :: Glissade (n.) A sliding, as down a snow slope in the Alps..

Decumbency :: Decumbency (n.) The act or posture of lying down.

Hobnail :: Hobnail (v. t.) To tread down roughly, as with hobnailed shoes..

Couching :: Couching (n.) The operation of putting down or displacing the opaque lens in cataract.

Stamp :: Stamp (v. t.) An instrument for cutting out, or shaping, materials, as paper, leather, etc., by a downward pressure..

Consomme :: Consomme (n.) A clear soup or bouillion boiled down so as to be very rich.

Flue :: Flue (n.) Light down, such as rises from cotton, fur, etc.; very fine lint or hair..

Milkweed :: Milkweed (n.) Any plant of the genera Asclepias and Acerates, abounding in a milky juice, and having its seed attached to a long silky down; silkweed. The name is also applied to several other plants with a milky juice, as to several kinds of spurge..

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