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Ecliptic :: Ecliptic (a.) A great circle of the celestial sphere, making an angle with the equinoctial of about 23� 28'. It is the apparent path of the sun, or the real path of the earth as seen from the sun..

Taurus :: Taurus (n.) The Bull; the second in order of the twelve signs of the zodiac, which the sun enters about the 20th of April; -- marked thus [/] in almanacs..

Watch :: Watch (v. i.) A small timepiece, or chronometer, to be carried about the person, the machinery of which is moved by a spring..

Thereabouts :: Thereabouts (adv.) Near that number, degree, or quantity; nearly; as, ten men, or thereabouts..

Circumambage :: Circumambage (n.) A roundabout or indirect course; indirectness.

Amphitheatre :: Amphitheatre (n.) An oval or circular building with rising tiers of seats about an open space called the arena.

Batman :: Batman (n.) A weight used in the East, varying according to the locality; in Turkey, the greater batman is about 157 pounds, the lesser only a fourth of this; at Aleppo and Smyrna, the batman is 17 pounds..

Silicle :: Silicle (n.) A seed vessel resembling a silique, but about as broad as it is long. See Silique..

Apteryx :: Apteryx (n.) A genus of New Zealand birds about the size of a hen, with only short rudiments of wings, armed with a claw and without a tail; the kiwi. It is allied to the gigantic extinct moas of the same country. Five species are known..

Nucleus :: Nucleus (n.) A kernel; hence, a central mass or point about which matter is gathered, or to which accretion is made; the central or material portion; -- used both literally and figuratively..

Batz :: Batz (n.) A small copper coin, with a mixture of silver, formerly current in some parts of Germany and Switzerland. It was worth about four cents..

Quiddler :: Quiddler (n.) One who wastes his energy about trifles.

Twist :: Twist (v. t.) To distort, as a solid body, by turning one part relatively to another about an axis passing through both; to subject to torsion; as, to twist a shaft..

Twiner :: Twiner (n.) Any plant which twines about a support.

Moon :: Moon (v. i.) To act if moonstruck; to wander or gaze about in an abstracted manner.

Sychnocarpous :: Sycee (n.) Silver, pounded into ingots of the shape of a shoe, and used as currency. The most common weight is about one pound troy..

Scudo :: Scudo (n.) A gold coin of Rome, worth 64 shillings 11 pence sterling, or about $ 15.70..

Erration :: Erration (n.) A wandering; a roving about.

Vagabond :: Vagabond (a.) Floating about without any certain direction; driven to and fro.

Forebode :: Forebode (v. t.) To be prescient of (some ill or misfortune); to have an inward conviction of, as of a calamity which is about to happen; to augur despondingly..

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