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Balaam :: Balaam (n.) A paragraph describing something wonderful, used to fill out a newspaper column; -- an allusion to the miracle of Balaam's ass speaking..

Speculum :: Speculum (n.) A bright and lustrous patch of color found on the wings of ducks and some other birds. It is usually situated on the distal portions of the secondary quills, and is much more brilliant in the adult male than in the female..

Taxidermist :: Taxidermist (n.) A person skilled in taxidermy.

Papilla :: Papilla (n.) Any minute nipplelike projection; as, the papillae of the tongue..

Ship :: Ship (v. t.) To put in its place; as, to ship the tiller or rudder..

Spadeful :: Spadeful (n.) As much as a spade will hold or lift.

Manslaughter :: Manslaughter (n.) The unlawful killing of a man, either in negligenc/ or incidentally to the commission of some unlawful act, but without specific malice, or upon a sudden excitement of anger..

Starve :: Starve (v. t.) To kill with hunger; as, maliciously to starve a man is, in law, murder..

Theosophy :: Theosophy (n.) Any system of philosophy or mysticism which proposes to attain intercourse with God and superior spirits, and consequent superhuman knowledge, by physical processes, as by the theurgic operations of some ancient Platonists, or by the chemical processes of the German fire philosophers; also, a direct, as distinguished from a revealed, knowledge of God, supposed to be attained by extraordinary illumination; especially, a direct insight into the processes of the divine mind, and the

Cutting :: Cutting (a.) Chilling; penetrating; sharp; as, a cutting wind..

Stock :: Stock (n.) The beater of a fulling mill.

Focillation :: Focillation (n.) Comfort; support.

Murre :: Murre (n.) Any one of several species of sea birds of the genus Uria, or Catarractes; a guillemot..

Molendinarious :: Molendinarious (a.) Resembling the sails of a windmill.

Line :: Line (n.) The regular infantry of an army, as distinguished from militia, guards, volunteer corps, cavalry, artillery, etc..

Solstice :: Solstice (v. i.) The point in the ecliptic at which the sun is farthest from the equator, north or south, namely, the first point of the sign Cancer and the first point of the sign Capricorn, the former being the summer solstice, latter the winter solstice, in northern latitudes; -- so called because the sun then apparently stands still in its northward or southward motion..

Pupillometer :: Pupillometer (n.) An instrument for measuring the size of the pupil of the pupil of the eye.

Miliaria :: Miliaria (n.) A fever accompanied by an eruption of small, isolated, red pimples, resembling a millet seed in form or size; miliary fever..

Art :: Art (n.) Skillful plan; device.

Lepidosiren :: Lepidosiren (n.) An eel-shaped ganoid fish of the order Dipnoi, having both gills and lungs. It inhabits the rivers of South America. The name is also applied to a related African species (Protopterus annectens). The lepidosirens grow to a length of from four to six feet. Called also doko..

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