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Severity :: Severity (n.) The quality or power of distressing or paining; extreme degree; extremity; intensity; inclemency; as, the severity of pain or anguish; the severity of cold or heat; the severity of the winter..

Cincture :: Cincture (n.) The fillet, listel, or band next to the apophyge at the extremity of the shaft of a column..

Sternsman :: Sternpost (n.) A straight piece of timber, or an iron bar or beam, erected on the extremity of the keel to support the rudder, and receive the ends of the planks or plates of the vessel..

Burr :: Burr (n.) A guttural pronounciation of the letter r, produced by trilling the extremity of the soft palate against the back part of the tongue; rotacism; -- often called the Newcastle, Northumberland, or Tweedside, burr..

Peak :: Peak (n.) The extremity of an anchor fluke; the bill.

Posterior :: Posterior (a.) At or toward the caudal extremity; caudal; -- in human anatomy often used for dorsal.

Uropygium :: Uropygium (n.) The prominence at the posterior extremity of a bird's body, which supports the feathers of the tail; the rump; -- sometimes called pope's nose..

Parch :: Parch (v. t.) To dry to extremity; to shrivel with heat; as, the mouth is parched from fever..

Probe-pointed :: Probe-pointed (a.) Having a blunt or button-shaped extremity; -- said of cutting instruments.

Corner :: Corner (n.) An edge or extremity; the part farthest from the center; hence, any quarter or part..

Extremity :: Extremity (n.) The extreme part; the utmost limit; the farthest or remotest point or part; as, the extremities of a country..

Sit :: Sit (v. t.) To rest upon the haunches, or the lower extremity of the trunk of the body; -- said of human beings, and sometimes of other animals; as, to sit on a sofa, on a chair, or on the ground..

Xiphisternum :: Xiphisternum (n.) The posterior segment, or extremity, of the sternum; -- sometimes called metasternum, ensiform cartilage, ensiform process, or xiphoid process..

Extremity :: Extremity (n.) The highest degree of inconvenience, pain, or suffering; greatest need or peril; extreme need; necessity..

Head :: Head (n.) The uppermost, foremost, or most important part of an inanimate object; such a part as may be considered to resemble the head of an animal; often, also, the larger, thicker, or heavier part or extremity, in distinction from the smaller or thinner part, or from the point or edge; as, the head of a cane, a nail, a spear, an ax, a mast, a sail, a ship; that which covers and closes the top or the end of a hollow vessel; as, the head of a cask or a steam boiler..

Sponged :: Sponge (n.) The extremity, or point, of a horseshoe, answering to the heel..

Kurilian :: Kurilian (a.) Of or pertaining to the Kurile Islands, a chain of islands in the Pacific ocean, extending from the southern extremity of Kamschatka to Yesso..

Cephalad :: Cephalad (adv.) Forwards; towards the head or anterior extremity of the body; opposed to caudad.

Mentomeckelian :: Mentomeckelian (n.) The bone or cartilage forming the anterior extremity of the lower jaw in some adult animals and the young of others.

List :: List (n.) A line inclosing or forming the extremity of a piece of ground, or field of combat; hence, in the plural (lists), the ground or field inclosed for a race or combat..

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