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Patache :: Patache (n.) A tender to a fleet, formerly used for conveying men, orders, or treasure..

Courche :: Courche (n.) A square piece of linen used formerly by women instead of a cap; a kerchief.

Workmaster :: Workmaster (n.) The performer of any work; a master workman.

Locustic :: Locustic (a.) Pertaining to, or derived from, the locust; -- formerly used to designate a supposed acid..

Countermand :: Countermand (v. t.) To revoke (a former command); to cancel or rescind by giving an order contrary to one previously given; as, to countermand an order for goods..

Paramour :: Paramour (n.) A lover, of either sex; a wooer or a mistress (formerly in a good sense, now only in a bad one); one who takes the place, without possessing the rights, of a husband or wife; -- used of a man or a woman..

Gantlet :: Gantlet (n.) A military punishment formerly in use, wherein the offender was made to run between two files of men facing one another, who struck him as he passed..

Album Graecum :: Album Graecum () Dung of dogs or hyenas, which becomes white by exposure to air. It is used in dressing leather, and was formerly used in medicine..

Pains :: Pains (n.) Labor; toilsome effort; care or trouble taken; -- plural in form, but used with a singular or plural verb, commonly the former..

Serf :: Serf (v. t.) A servant or slave employed in husbandry, and in some countries attached to the soil and transferred with it, as formerly in Russia..

Admeasure :: Admeasure (v. t.) Formerly, the adjustment of proportion, or ascertainment of shares, as of dower or pasture held in common. This was by writ of admeasurement, directed to the sheriff..

Umquhile :: Umquhile (a.) Former.

Instrumentist :: Instrumentist (n.) A performer on a musical instrument; an instrumentalist.

Which :: Which (pron.) A relative pronoun, used esp. in referring to an antecedent noun or clause, but sometimes with reference to what is specified or implied in a sentence, or to a following noun or clause (generally involving a reference, however, to something which has preceded). It is used in all numbers and genders, and was formerly used of persons..

Remora :: Remora (n.) An instrument formerly in use, intended to retain parts in their places..

Sycophant :: Sycophant (n.) An informer; a talebearer.

Linen :: Linen (n.) Underclothing, esp. the shirt, as being, in former times, chiefly made of linen..

Cosmolabe :: Cosmolabe (n.) An instrument resembling the astrolabe, formerly used for measuring the angles between heavenly bodies; -- called also pantacosm..

Kindred :: Kindred (n.) Relatives by blood or marriage, more properly the former; relations; persons related to each other..

Restitute :: Restitute (v. t.) To restore to a former state.

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