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

Quaver :: Quaver (n.) An eighth note. See Eighth.

Equipondious :: Equipondious (a.) Of equal weight on both sides; balanced.

Depot :: Depot (n.) A railway station; a building for the accommodation and protection of railway passengers or freight.

Freight :: Freight (n.) Freight transportation, or freight line..

Durion :: Durion (n.) The fruit of the durio. It is oval or globular, and eight or ten inches long. It has a hard prickly rind, containing a soft, cream-colored pulp, of a most delicious flavor and a very offensive odor. The seeds are roasted and eaten like chestnuts..

Octave :: Octave (n.) The eighth day after a church festival, the festival day being included; also, the week following a church festival..

Freight :: Freight (n.) The price paid a common carrier for the carriage of goods.

Weightily :: Weightily (adv.) In a weighty manner.

Iridium :: Iridium (n.) A rare metallic element, of the same group as platinum, which it much resembles, being silver-white, but harder, and brittle, and indifferent to most corrosive agents. With the exception of osmium, it is the heaviest substance known, its specific gravity being 22.4. Symbol Ir. Atomic weight 192.5..

Cabling :: Cabling (n.) The decoration of a fluted shaft of a column or of a pilaster with reeds, or rounded moldings, which seem to be laid in the hollows of the fluting. These are limited in length to about one third of the height of the shaft..

Oppress :: Oppress (v. t.) To produce a sensation of weight in (some part of the body); as, my lungs are oppressed by the damp air; excess of food oppresses the stomach..

Ton :: Ton (n.) A measure of weight or quantity.

Freight :: Freight (a.) Employed in the transportation of freight; having to do with freight; as, a freight car..

Force :: Force (v. i.) To be of force, importance, or weight; to matter..

Blacksnake :: Blacksnake (n.) A snake of a black color, of which two species are common in the United States, the Bascanium constrictor, or racer, sometimes six feet long, and the Scotophis Alleghaniensis, seven or eight feet long..

Baroscope :: Baroscope (n.) Any instrument showing the changes in the weight of the atmosphere; also, less appropriately, any instrument that indicates -or foreshadows changes of the weather, as a deep vial of liquid holding in suspension some substance which rises and falls with atmospheric changes..

Isocephalism :: Isocephalism (n.) A peculiarity in the design of bas-relief by which the heads of human figures are kept at the same height from the ground, whether the personages are seated, standing, or mounted on horseback; -- called also isokephaleia..

Dram :: Dram (n.) A weight; in Apothecaries' weight, one eighth part of an ounce, or sixty grains; in Avoirdupois weight, one sixteenth part of an ounce, or 27.34375 grains..

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

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