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Prospective :: Prospective (n.) The scene before or around, in time or in space; view; prospect..

Fast :: Fast (n.) That which fastens or holds; especially, (Naut.) a mooring rope, hawser, or chain; -- called, according to its position, a bow, head, quarter, breast, or stern fast; also, a post on a pier around which hawsers are passed in mooring..

Axis :: Axis (n.) A straight line, real or imaginary, passing through a body, on which it revolves, or may be supposed to revolve; a line passing through a body or system around which the parts are symmetrically arranged..

Profile :: Profile (n.) To shape the outline of an object by passing a cutter around it.

Vorticella :: Vorticella (n.) Any one of numerous species of ciliated Infusoria belonging to Vorticella and many other genera of the family Vorticellidae. They have a more or less bell-shaped body with a circle of vibrating cilia around the oral disk. Most of the species have slender, contractile stems, either simple or branched..

Auricula :: Auricula (n.) One of the five arched processes of the shell around the jaws of a sea urchin.

Circle :: Circle (n.) To move around; to revolve around.

Torquate :: Torquate (a.) Collared; having a torques, or distinct colored ring around the neck..

Peristrephic :: Peristrephic (a.) Turning around; rotatory; revolving; as, a peristrephic painting (of a panorama)..

Vortex :: Vortex (n.) A supposed collection of particles of very subtile matter, endowed with a rapid rotary motion around an axis which was also the axis of a sun or a planet. Descartes attempted to account for the formation of the universe, and the movements of the bodies composing it, by a theory of vortices..

Circler :: Circler (n.) A mean or inferior poet, perhaps from his habit of wandering around as a stroller; an itinerant poet. Also, a name given to the cyclic poets. See under Cyclic, a..

Perichondrial :: Perichondrial (a.) Of or pertaining to the perichondrium; situated around cartilage.

Collar :: Collar (n.) A ring or round flange upon, surrounding, or against an object, and used for restraining motion within given limits, or for holding something to its place, or for hiding an opening around an object; as, a collar on a shaft, used to prevent endwise motion of the shaft; a collar surrounding a stovepipe at the place where it enters a wall. The flanges of a piston and the gland of a stuffing box are sometimes called collars..

Be- :: Be- () To make the action of a verb particular or definite; as, beget (to get as offspring); beset (to set around)..

Kernel :: Kernel (n.) A small mass around which other matter is concreted; a nucleus; a concretion or hard lump in the flesh.

Zone :: Zone (n.) A band or stripe extending around a body.

Perichordal :: Perichordal (a.) Around the notochord; as, a perichordal column. See Epichordal..

Shroud :: Shroud (n.) A set of ropes serving as stays to support the masts. The lower shrouds are secured to the sides of vessels by heavy iron bolts and are passed around the head of the lower masts.

Bright :: Bright (a.) Sparkling with wit; lively; vivacious; shedding cheerfulness and joy around; cheerful; cheery.

Ambi- :: Ambi- () A prefix meaning about, around; -- used in words derived from the Latin..

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