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Negative :: Negative (n.) A picture upon glass or other material, in which the light portions of the original are represented in some opaque material (usually reduced silver), and the dark portions by the uncovered and transparent or semitransparent ground of the picture..

Promise :: Promise (v. i.) To afford hopes or expectation; to give ground to expect good; rarely, to give reason to expect evil..

Countermine :: Countermine (n.) An underground gallery excavated to intercept and destroy the mining of an enemy.

Optography :: Optography (n.) The production of an optogram on the retina by the photochemical action of light on the visual purple; the fixation of an image in the eye. The object so photographed shows white on a purple or red background. See Visual purple, under Visual..

Watertath :: Watertath (n.) A kind of coarse grass growing in wet grounds, and supposed to be injurious to sheep..

Fruit :: Fruit (v. t.) The pulpy, edible seed vessels of certain plants, especially those grown on branches above ground, as apples, oranges, grapes, melons, berries, etc. See 3..

Punt :: Punt (v. t.) To kick (the ball) before it touches the ground, when let fall from the hands..

Ambrotype :: Ambrotype (n.) A picture taken on a plate of prepared glass, in which the lights are represented in silver, and the shades are produced by a dark background visible through the unsilvered portions of the glass..

Prepare :: Prepare (v. t.) To fit, adapt, or qualify for a particular purpose or condition; to make ready; to put into a state for use or application; as, to prepare ground for seed; to prepare a lesson..

Plat :: Plat (n.) A small piece or plot of ground laid out with some design, or for a special use; usually, a portion of flat, even ground..

Groundsill :: Groundsill (n.) See Ground plate (a), under Ground.

Lawn :: Lawn (n.) Ground (generally in front of or around a house) covered with grass kept closely mown.

Issuable :: Issuable (a.) Lawful or suitable to be issued; as, a writ issuable on these grounds..

Fluke :: Fluke (n.) The part of an anchor which fastens in the ground; a flook. See Anchor.

Horse-chestnut :: Horse-chestnut (n.) The large nutlike seed of a species of Aesculus (Ae. Hippocastanum), formerly ground, and fed to horses, whence the name..

Bergmeal :: Bergmeal (n.) An earthy substance, resembling fine flour. It is composed of the shells of infusoria, and in Lapland and Sweden is sometimes eaten, mixed with flour or ground birch bark, in times of scarcity. This name is also given to a white powdery variety of calcite..

Morris :: Morris (n.) An old game played with counters, or men, which are placed angles of a figure drawn on a board or on the ground; also, the board or ground on which the game is played..

Rootstock :: Rootstock (n.) A perennial underground stem, producing leafly s/ems or flower stems from year to year; a rhizome..

Sneak :: Sneak (n.) A ball bowled so as to roll along the ground; -- called also grub.

Level :: Level (a.) Even; flat; having no part higher than another; having, or conforming to, the curvature which belongs to the undisturbed liquid parts of the earth's surface; as, a level field; level ground; the level surface of a pond or lake..

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