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Gallop :: Gallop (v. i.) A mode of running by a quadruped, particularly by a horse, by lifting alternately the fore feet and the hind feet, in successive leaps or bounds..

Heterogamy :: Heterogamy (n.) That form of alternate generation in which two kinds of sexual generation, or a sexual and a parthenogenetic generation, alternate; -- in distinction from metagenesis, where sexual and asexual generations alternate..

Spanner :: Spanner (n.) A contrivance in some of the ealier steam engines for moving the valves for the alternate admission and shutting off of the steam.

Vary :: Vary (v. t.) To change to something else; to transmute; to exchange; to alternate.

Subalternate :: Subalternate (a.) Subordinate; subaltern; inferior.

Interchangeable :: Interchangeable (a.) Following each other in alternate succession; as, the four interchangeable seasons..

Alternate :: Alternate (a.) Distributed, as leaves, singly at different heights of the stem, and at equal intervals as respects angular divergence..

Recourseful :: Recourseful (a.) Having recurring flow and ebb; moving alternately.

Sandwich :: Sandwich (v. t.) To make into a sandwich; also, figuratively, to insert between portions of something dissimilar; to form of alternate parts or things, or alternating layers of a different nature; to interlard..

Roseola :: Roseola (n.) A rose-colored efflorescence upon the skin, occurring in circumscribed patches of little or no elevation and often alternately fading and reviving; also, an acute specific disease which is characterized by an eruption of this character; -- called also rose rash..

Reciprocation :: Reciprocation (n.) Alternate recurrence or action; as, the reciprocation of the sea in the flow and ebb of tides..

Alternacy :: Alternacy (n.) Alternateness; alternation.

Responsory :: Responsory (n.) The answer of the people to the priest in alternate speaking, in church service..

Flexuous :: Flexuous (a.) Having alternate curvatures in opposite directions; bent in a zigzag manner.

Anthemwise :: Anthemwise (adv.) Alternately.

Altern :: Altern (a.) Acting by turns; alternate.

Alternate :: Alternate (n.) A proportion derived from another proportion by interchanging the means.

Reciprocate :: Reciprocate (v. t.) To give and return mutually; to make return for; to give in return; to interchange; to alternate; as, to reciprocate favors..

Play :: Play (n.) To move in any manner; especially, to move regularly with alternate or reciprocating motion; to operate; to act; as, the fountain plays..

Second :: Second (a.) To follow in the next place; to succeed; to alternate.

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