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Lose :: Lose (v. t.) To be deprived of the view of; to cease to see or know the whereabouts of; as, he lost his companion in the crowd..

Bag :: Bag (n.) A sort of silken purse formerly tied about men's hair behind, by way of ornament..

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..

Suffrago :: Suffragist (n.) One who has certain opinions or desires about the political right of suffrage; as, a woman suffragist..

Pleura :: Pleura (n. fem.) The closed sac formed by the pleural membrane about each lung, or the fold of membrane connecting each lung with the body wall..

Conclude :: Conclude (v. t.) To bring about as a result; to effect; to make; as, to conclude a bargain..

Oak :: Oak (n.) Any tree or shrub of the genus Quercus. The oaks have alternate leaves, often variously lobed, and staminate flowers in catkins. The fruit is a smooth nut, called an acorn, which is more or less inclosed in a scaly involucre called the cup or cupule. There are now recognized about three hundred species, of which nearly fifty occur in the United States, the rest in Europe, Asia, and the other parts of North America, a very few barely reaching the northern parts of South America and Afric

Sagittarius :: Sagittarius (n.) The ninth of the twelve signs of the zodiac, which the sun enters about November 22, marked thus [/] in almanacs; the Archer..

Eccentric :: Eccentric (n.) In the Ptolemaic system, the supposed circular orbit of a planet about the earth, but with the earth not in its center..

Machine :: Machine (n.) In general, any combination of bodies so connected that their relative motions are constrained, and by means of which force and motion may be transmitted and modified, as a screw and its nut, or a lever arranged to turn about a fulcrum or a pulley about its pivot, etc.; especially, a construction, more or less complex, consisting of a combination of moving parts, or simple mechanical elements, as wheels, levers, cams, etc., with their supports and connecting framework, calculated to

Hogshead :: Hogshead (n.) An English measure of capacity, containing 63 wine gallons, or about 52/ imperial gallons; a half pipe..

Groschen :: Groschen (n.) A small silver coin and money of account of Germany, worth about two cents. It is not included in the new monetary system of the empire..

Revolution :: Revolution (n.) The motion of a point, line, or surface about a point or line as its center or axis, in such a manner that a moving point generates a curve, a moving line a surface (called a surface of revolution), and a moving surface a solid (called a solid of revolution); as, the revolution of a right-angled triangle about one of its sides generates a cone; the revolution of a semicircle about the diameter generates a sphere..

Scamble :: Scamble (v. i.) To move about pushing and jostling; to be rude and turbulent; to scramble.

Guilder :: Guilder (n.) A Dutch silver coin worth about forty cents; -- called also florin and gulden.

Chalkstone :: Chalkstone (n.) A chalklike concretion, consisting mainly of urate of sodium, found in and about the small joints, in the external ear, and in other situations, in those affected with gout; a tophus..

Dagges :: Dagges (n. pl.) An ornamental cutting of the edges of garments, introduced about a. d. 1346, according to the Chronicles of St Albans..

Splatter :: Splashy (a.) Full of dirty water; wet and muddy, so as be easily splashed about; slushy..

Kinkajou :: Kinkajou (n.) A nocturnal carnivorous mammal (Cercoleptes caudivolvulus) of South America, about as large as a full-grown cat. It has a prehensile tail and lives in trees. It is the only representative of a distinct family (Cercoleptidae) allied to the raccoons. Called also potto, and honey bear..

Facing :: Facing (n.) The movement of soldiers by turning on their heels to the right, left, or about; -- chiefly in the pl..

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