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Pendent :: Pendent (a.) Supported from above; suspended; depending; pendulous; hanging; as, a pendent leaf..

Epichordal :: Epichordal (a.) Upon or above the notochord; -- applied esp. to a vertebral column which develops upon the dorsal side of the notochord, as distinguished from a perichordal column, which develops around it..

Inestimably :: Inestimably (adv.) In a manner, or to a degree, above estimation; as, things inestimably excellent..

Uprise :: Uprise (n.) The act of rising; appearance above the horizon; rising.

Force Pump :: Force pump () A pump adapted for delivering water at a considerable height above the pump, or under a considerable pressure; in distinction from one which lifts the water only to the top of the pump or delivers it through a spout. See Illust. of Plunger pump, under Plunger..

Hummock :: Hummock (n.) A rounded knoll or hillock; a rise of ground of no great extent, above a level surface..

Superposable :: Superponderate (v. t.) To wiegh over and above.

Suprastapedial :: Supraspinous (a.) Situated above a spine or spines; especially, situated above, or on the dorsal side of, the neural spines of the vertebral column, or above, or in front of, the spine of the scapula..

Epipterygoid :: Epipterygoid (a.) Situated upon or above the pterygoid bone.

Rise :: Rise (n.) Appearance above the horizon; as, the rise of the sun or of a planet..

Grandfather :: Grandfather (n.) A father's or mother's father; an ancestor in the next degree above the father or mother in lineal ascent.

Measles :: Measles (n.) A contagious febrile disorder commencing with catarrhal symptoms, and marked by the appearance on the third day of an eruption of distinct red circular spots, which coalesce in a crescentic form, are slightly raised above the surface, and after the fourth day of the eruption gradually decline; rubeola..

Bank :: Bank (n.) A deposit of ore or coal, worked by excavations above water level..

Pinocle :: Pinocle (n.) A game at cards, played with forty-eight cards, being all the cards above the eight spots in two packs..

Gentleman :: Gentleman (n.) A man well born; one of good family; one above the condition of a yeoman.

Sharp :: Sharp (v. i.) To sing above the proper pitch.

Progne :: Progne (n.) An American butterfly (Polygonia, / Vanessa, Progne). It is orange and black above, grayish beneath, with an L-shaped silver mark on the hind wings. Called also gray comma..

Mortar :: Mortar (n.) A short piece of ordnance, used for throwing bombs, carcasses, shells, etc., at high angles of elevation, as 45¡, and even higher; -- so named from its resemblance in shape to the utensil above described..

Idem :: Idem (pron. / adj.) The same; the same as above; -- often abbreviated id.

Supersphenoidal :: Supersolar (a.) Above the sun.

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