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Neat :: Neat (a.) Excellent in character, skill, or performance, etc.; nice; finished; adroit; as, a neat design; a neat thief..

Ashen :: Ashen (n.) obs. pl. for Ashes.

Chiltern Hundreds :: Chiltern Hundreds () A tract of crown land in Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire, England, to which is attached the nominal office of steward. As members of Parliament cannot resign, when they wish to go out they accept this stewardship, which legally vacates their seats..

Calycozoa :: Calycozoa (n. pl.) A group of acalephs of which Lucernaria is the type. The body is cup-shaped with eight marginal lobes bearing clavate tentacles. An aboral sucker serves for attachment. The interior is divided into four large compartments. See Lucernarida.

Store :: Store (v. t.) A place of deposit for goods, esp. for large quantities; a storehouse; a warehouse; a magazine..

Windlass :: Windlass (n.) A machine for raising weights, consisting of a horizontal cylinder or roller moving on its axis, and turned by a crank, lever, or similar means, so as to wind up a rope or chain attached to the weight. In vessels the windlass is often used instead of the capstan for raising the anchor. It is usually set upon the forecastle, and is worked by hand or steam..

Forecited :: Forecited (a.) Cited or quoted before or above.

Amain :: Amain (n.) With might; with full force; vigorously; violently; exceedingly.

Unite :: Unite (v. t.) To put together so as to make one; to join, as two or more constituents, to form a whole; to combine; to connect; to join; to cause to adhere; as, to unite bricks by mortar; to unite iron bars by welding; to unite two armies..

Portend :: Portend (v. t.) To stretch out before.

Shoot :: Shoot (v. i.) To let fly, or cause to be driven, with force, as an arrow or a bullet; -- followed by a word denoting the missile, as an object..

Cesser :: Cesser (v. i.) a neglect of a tenant to perform services, or make payment, for two years..

Forncast :: Forncast (p. p.) Predestined.

Plutonism :: Plutonism (n.) The theory, early advanced in geology, that the successive rocks of the earth's crust were formed by igneous fusion; -- opposed to the Neptunian theory..

Bumkin :: Bumkin (n.) A projecting beam or boom; as: (a) One projecting from each bow of a vessel, to haul the fore tack to, called a tack bumpkin. (b) One from each quarter, for the main-brace blocks, and called brace bumpkin. (c) A small outrigger over the stern of a boat, to extend the mizzen..

Gangrene :: Gangrene (n.) A term formerly restricted to mortification of the soft tissues which has not advanced so far as to produce complete loss of vitality; but now applied to mortification of the soft parts in any stage.

Sale :: Sale (v. t.) The act of selling; the transfer of property, or a contract to transfer the ownership of property, from one person to another for a valuable consideration, or for a price in money..

Lodgeable :: Lodgeable (a.) Capable of affording lodging; fit for lodging in.

Energize :: Energize (v. t.) To give strength or force to; to make active; to alacrify; as, to energize the will..

Tamp :: Tamp (v. t.) In blasting, to plug up with clay, earth, dry sand, sod, or other material, as a hole bored in a rock, in order to prevent the force of the explosion from being misdirected..

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