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Thrust :: Thrust (n.) The breaking down of the roof of a gallery under its superincumbent weight.

Fall :: Fall (v. t.) To fell; to cut down; as, to fall a tree..

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

Solemn :: Solemn (a.) Real; earnest; downright.

Logography :: Logography (n.) A mode of reporting speeches without using shorthand, -- a number of reporters, each in succession, taking down three or four words..

Prostrate :: Prostrate (v. t.) To lay fiat; to throw down; to level; to fell; as, to prostrate the body; to prostrate trees or plants..

Report :: Report (v. t.) To make minutes of, as a speech, or the doings of a public body; to write down from the lips of a speaker..

Mow :: Mow (v. t.) To cut down; to cause to fall in rows or masses, as in mowing grass; -- with down; as, a discharge of grapeshot mows down whole ranks of men..

Thesis :: Thesis (n.) The accented part of the measure, expressed by the downward beat; -- the opposite of arsis..

Quash :: Quash (v. t.) To beat down, or beat in pieces; to dash forcibly; to crush..

Gulch :: Gulch (v. t.) To swallow greedily; to gulp down.

Arrant :: Arrant (a.) Notoriously or preeminently bad; thorough or downright, in a bad sense; shameless; unmitigated; as, an arrant rogue or coward..

Spoked :: Spoke (n.) A contrivance for fastening the wheel of a vehicle, to prevent it from turning in going down a hill..

Stub :: Stub (n.) The stump of a tree; that part of a tree or plant which remains fixed in the earth when the stem is cut down; -- applied especially to the stump of a small tree, or shrub..

Outbrazen :: Outbrazen (v. t.) To bear down with a brazen face; to surpass in impudence.

Pappose :: Pappose (a.) Furnished with a pappus; downy.

Reason :: Reason (v. t.) To overcome or conquer by adducing reasons; -- with down; as, to reason down a passion..

Clay :: Clay (n.) A soft earth, which is plastic, or may be molded with the hands, consisting of hydrous silicate of aluminium. It is the result of the wearing down and decomposition, in part, of rocks containing aluminous minerals, as granite. Lime, magnesia, oxide of iron, and other ingredients, are often present as impurities..

Wattlebird :: Wattlebird (n.) Any one of several species of honey eaters belonging to Anthochaera and allied genera of the family Meliphagidae. These birds usually have a large and conspicuous wattle of naked skin hanging down below each ear. They are natives of Australia and adjacent islands.

Slat :: Slat (v. t.) To slap; to strike; to beat; to throw down violently.

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