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Gun :: Gun (v. i.) To practice fowling or hunting small game; -- chiefly in participial form; as, to go gunning..

Circumvolant :: Circumvolant (a.) Flying around.

Transform :: Transform (v. t.) To change the form of; to change in shape or appearance; to metamorphose; as, a caterpillar is ultimately transformed into a butterfly..

Hippobosca :: Hippobosca (n.) A genus of dipterous insects including the horsefly or horse tick.

Necked :: Necked (a.) Having (such) a neck; -- chiefly used in composition; as, stiff-necked..

Overperch :: Overperch (v. t.) To perch upon; to fly over.

Sable :: Sable (a.) Of the color of the sable's fur; dark; black; -- used chiefly in poetry.

Wing :: Wing (v. t.) To transport by flight; to cause to fly.

Y- :: Y- () A prefix of obscure meaning, originally used with verbs, adverbs, adjectives, nouns, and pronouns. In the Middle English period, it was little employed except with verbs, being chiefly used with past participles, though occasionally with the infinitive Ycleped, or yclept, is perhaps the only word not entirely obsolete which shows this use..

Nontronite :: Nontronite (n.) A greenish yellow or green mineral, consisting chiefly of the hydrous silicate of iron..

Phalanger :: Phalanger (n.) Any marsupial belonging to Phalangista, Cuscus, Petaurus, and other genera of the family Phalangistidae. They are arboreal, and the species of Petaurus are furnished with lateral parachutes. See Flying phalanger, under Flying..

Ornithosauria :: Ornithosauria (n. pl.) An order of extinct flying reptiles; -- called also Pterosauria.

Fly :: Fly (v. i.) To move suddenly, or with violence; to do an act suddenly or swiftly; -- usually with a qualifying word; as, a door flies open; a bomb flies apart..

Currant :: Currant (n.) A small kind of seedless raisin, imported from the Levant, chiefly from Zante and Cephalonia; -- used in cookery..

Horn :: Horn (n.) The tough, fibrous material of which true horns are composed, being, in the Ox family, chiefly albuminous, with some phosphate of lime; also, any similar substance, as that which forms the hoof crust of horses, sheep, and cattle; as, a spoon of horn..

Canker Fly :: Canker fly () A fly that preys on fruit.

Think :: Think (v. t.) To seem or appear; -- used chiefly in the expressions methinketh or methinks, and methought..

Snap :: Snap (v. t.) A thin, crisp cake, usually small, and flavored with ginger; -- used chiefly in the plural..

Swift :: Swift (n.) A reel, or turning instrument, for winding yarn, thread, etc.; -- used chiefly in the plural..

Cantharidin :: Cantharidin (n.) The active principle of the cantharis, or Spanish fly, a volatile, acrid, bitter solid, crystallizing in four-sided prisms..

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