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Tickle :: Tickle (v. t.) To touch lightly, so as to produce a peculiar thrilling sensation, which commonly causes laughter, and a kind of spasm which become dengerous if too long protracted..

Subapennine :: Subangular (a.) Slightly angular.

Corn :: Corn (v. t.) To preserve and season with salt in grains; to sprinkle with salt; to cure by salting; now, specifically, to salt slightly in brine or otherwise; as, to corn beef; to corn a tongue..

Ease :: Ease (n.) To release from pressure or restraint; to move gently; to lift slightly; to shift a little; as, to ease a bar or nut in machinery..

Prattle :: Prattle (v. i.) To talk much and idly; to prate; hence, to talk lightly and artlessly, like a child; to utter child's talk..

Lightly :: Lightly (adv.) Commonly; usually.

Light :: Light (adv.) Lightly; cheaply.

Miff :: Miff (v. t.) To offend slightly.

Tripping :: Tripping (a.) Quick; nimble; stepping lightly and quickly.

Wormwood :: Wormwood (n.) A composite plant (Artemisia Absinthium), having a bitter and slightly aromatic taste, formerly used as a tonic and a vermifuge, and to protect woolen garments from moths. It gives the peculiar flavor to the cordial called absinthe. The volatile oil is a narcotic poison. The term is often extended to other species of the same genus..

Creep :: Creep (v. t.) To slip, or to become slightly displaced; as, the collodion on a negative, or a coat of varnish, may creep in drying; the quicksilver on a mirror may creep..

Tabor :: Tabor (v. i.) To strike lightly and frequently.

Seersucker :: Seersucker (n.) A light fabric, originally made in the East Indies, of silk and linen, usually having alternating stripes, and a slightly craped or puckered surface; also, a cotton fabric of similar appearance..

Hut :: Hut (n.) A small house, hivel, or cabin; a mean lodge or dwelling; a slightly built or temporary structure..

Subterete :: Subtepid (a.) Slightly tepid.

Viridescent :: Viridescent (a.) Slightly green; greenish.

Dampen :: Dampen (v. t.) To make damp or moist; to make slightly wet.

Crystal :: Crystal (n.) The material of quartz, in crystallization transparent or nearly so, and either colorless or slightly tinged with gray, or the like; -- called also rock crystal. Ornamental vessels are made of it. Cf. Smoky quartz, Pebble; also Brazilian pebble, under Brazilian..

Indispose :: Indispose (v. t.) To disorder slightly as regards health; to make somewhat.

Lightly :: Lightly (adv.) With little weight; with little force; as, to tread lightly; to press lightly..

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