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Circumvolution :: Circumvolution (n.) A roundabout procedure; a circumlocution.

Windlass :: Windlass (v. i.) To take a roundabout course; to work warily or by indirect means.

Pelican :: Pelican (n.) Any large webfooted bird of the genus Pelecanus, of which about a dozen species are known. They have an enormous bill, to the lower edge of which is attached a pouch in which captured fishes are temporarily stored..

Sol :: Sol (n.) A silver and gold coin of Peru. The silver sol is the unit of value, and is worth about 68 cents..

Strany :: Strangury (n.) A swelling or other disease in a plant, occasioned by a ligature fastened tightly about it..

Jiggle :: Jiggle (v. i.) To wriggle or frisk about; to move awkwardly; to shake up and down.

Segregate :: Segregate (v. i.) To separate from a mass, and collect together about centers or along lines of fracture, as in the process of crystallization or solidification..

Foy :: Foy (n.) A feast given by one about to leave a place.

Gadding :: Gadding (a. & n.) Going about much, needlessly or without purpose..

Turban :: Turban (n.) A headdress worn by men in the Levant and by most Mohammedans of the male sex, consisting of a cap, and a sash, scarf, or shawl, usually of cotton or linen, wound about the cap, and sometimes hanging down the neck..

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

Strophulus :: Strophiole (n.) A crestlike excrescence about the hilum of certain seeds; a caruncle.

Shaftment :: Shaftment (n.) A measure of about six inches.

Italic :: Italic (a.) Applied especially to a kind of type in which the letters do not stand upright, but slope toward the right; -- so called because dedicated to the States of Italy by the inventor, Aldus Manutius, about the year 1500..

Vampire :: Vampire (n.) A blood-sucking ghost; a soul of a dead person superstitiously believed to come from the grave and wander about by night sucking the blood of persons asleep, thus causing their death. This superstition is now prevalent in parts of Eastern Europe, and was especially current in Hungary about the year 1730..

Talent :: Talent (v. t.) Among the Hebrews, a weight and denomination of money. For silver it was equivalent to 3,000 shekels, and in weight was equal to about 93/ lbs. avoirdupois; as a denomination of silver, it has been variously estimated at from ?340 to ?396 sterling, or about $1,645 to $1,916. For gold it was equal to 10,000 gold shekels..

Kenning :: Kenning (v. t.) The limit of vision at sea, being a distance of about twenty miles..

Minim :: Minim (n.) The smallest liquid measure, equal to about one drop; the sixtieth part of a fluid drachm..

Evagation :: Evagation (n.) A wandering about; excursion; a roving.

Drachma :: Drachma (n.) Among the ancient Greeks, a weight of about 66.5 grains; among the modern Greeks, a weight equal to a gram..

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