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Oxhead :: Oxhead (n.) Literally, the head of an ox (emblem of cuckoldom); hence, a dolt; a blockhead..

Compassion :: Compassion (n.) Literally, suffering with another; a sensation of sorrow excited by the distress or misfortunes of another; pity; commiseration..

Figurative :: Figurative (a.) Used in a sense that is tropical, as a metaphor; not literal; -- applied to words and expressions..

Philosophy :: Philosophy (n.) Literally, the love of, including the search after, wisdom; in actual usage, the knowledge of phenomena as explained by, and resolved into, causes and reasons, powers and laws..

Turn :: Turn (n.) Form; cast; shape; manner; fashion; -- used in a literal or figurative sense; hence, form of expression; mode of signifying; as, the turn of thought; a man of a sprightly turn in conversation..

Hardness :: Hardness (n.) The quality or state of being hard, literally or figuratively..

Volapuk :: Volapuk (n.) Literally, world's speech; the name of an artificial language invented by Johan Martin Schleyer, of Constance, Switzerland, about 1879..

Paraphrastical :: Paraphrastical (a.) Paraphrasing; of the nature of paraphrase; explaining, or translating in words more clear and ample than those of the author; not literal; free..

Literal :: Literal (a.) Giving a strict or literal construction; unimaginative; matter-of fast; -- applied to persons.

Verbal :: Verbal (a.) Having word answering to word; word for word; literal; as, a verbal translation..

Figured :: Figured (a.) Not literal; figurative.

Down :: Down (adv.) In a low or the lowest position, literally or figuratively; at the bottom of a decent; below the horizon; of the ground; in a condition of humility, dejection, misery, and the like; in a state of quiet..

Join :: "Join (v. t.) To bring together, literally or figuratively; to place in contact; to connect; to couple; to unite; to combine; to associate; to add; to append..

Duoliteral :: Duoliteral (a.) Consisting of two letters only; biliteral.

Blend :: Blend (a.) To make blind, literally or figuratively; to dazzle; to deceive..

Deuteroscopy :: Deuteroscopy (n.) That which is seen at a second view; a meaning beyond the literal sense; the second intention; a hidden signification.

Biliteral :: Biliteral (n.) A word, syllable, or root, consisting of two letters..

Literalness :: Literalness (n.) The quality or state of being literal; literal import.

Sow :: Sow (v. i.) To scatter seed for growth and the production of a crop; -- literally or figuratively.

Tralatitious :: Tralatitious (a.) Metaphorical; figurative; not literal.

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