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Offset :: Offset (v. t.) To set off; to place over against; to balance; as, to offset one account or charge against another..

Conundrum :: Conundrum (n.) A kind of riddle based upon some fanciful or fantastic resemblance between things quite unlike; a puzzling question, of which the answer is or involves a pun..

Chess :: Chess (n.) A species of brome grass (Bromus secalinus) which is a troublesome weed in wheat fields, and is often erroneously regarded as degenerate or changed wheat; it bears a very slight resemblance to oats, and if reaped and ground up with wheat, so as to be used for food, is said to produce narcotic effects; -- called also cheat and Willard's bromus..

Overglance :: Overglance (v. t.) To glance over.

Blink :: Blink (v. i.) A glimpse or glance.

Pineapple :: Pineapple (n.) A tropical plant (Ananassa sativa); also, its fruit; -- so called from the resemblance of the latter, in shape and external appearance, to the cone of the pine tree. Its origin is unknown, though conjectured to be American..

Ovate-lanceolate :: Ovate-lanceolate (a.) Having a form intermediate between ovate and lanceolate.

Verge :: Verge (n.) The spindle of a watch balance, especially one with pallets, as in the old vertical escapement. See under Escapement..

Poiser :: Poiser (n.) The balancer of dipterous insects.

Balance :: Balance (n.) A balance wheel, as of a watch, or clock. See Balance wheel (in the Vocabulary)..

Close :: Close (v. t.) Nearly equal; almost evenly balanced; as, a close vote..

Elance :: Elance (v. t.) To throw as a lance; to hurl; to dart.

Alarm :: Alarm (v. t.) To call to arms for defense; to give notice to (any one) of approaching danger; to rouse to vigilance and action; to put on the alert.

Hippocampus :: Hippocampus (n.) A genus of lophobranch fishes of several species in which the head and neck have some resemblance to those of a horse; -- called also sea horse.

Snail :: Snail (n.) Any gastropod having a general resemblance to the true snails, including fresh-water and marine species. See Pond snail, under Pond, and Sea snail..

Burr :: Burr (n.) A ring of iron on a lance or spear. See Burr, n., 4..

Balance :: Balance (n.) To settle and adjust, as an account; to make two accounts equal by paying the difference between them..

Compensate :: Compensate (v. t.) To be equivalent in value or effect to; to counterbalance; to make up for; to make amends for.

Signature :: Signature (v. t.) A resemblance between the external characters of a disease and those of some physical agent, for instance, that existing between the red skin of scarlet fever and a red cloth; -- supposed to indicate this agent in the treatment of the disease..

Piraya :: Piraya (n.) A large voracious fresh-water fish (Serrasalmo piraya) of South America, having lancet-shaped teeth..

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