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Water Bug :: Water bug () Any one of numerous species of large, rapacious, aquatic, hemipterous insects belonging to Belostoma, Benacus, Zaitha, and other genera of the family Belostomatidae. Their hind legs are long and fringed, and act like oars. Some of these insects are of great size, being among the largest existing Hemiptera. Many of them come out of the water and fly about at night..

Longways :: Longways (adv.) Lengthwise.

Cuculoid :: Cuculoid (a.) Like or belonging to the cuckoos (Cuculidae).

Tenth :: Tenth (n.) A temporary aid issuing out of personal property, and granted to the king by Parliament; formerly, the real tenth part of all the movables belonging to the subject..

Principal :: Principal (n.) In English organs the chief open metallic stop, an octave above the open diapason. On the manual it is four feet long, on the pedal eight feet. In Germany this term corresponds to the English open diapason..

Suspire :: Suspire (v. i.) To fetch a long, deep breath; to sigh; to breathe..

Measure :: Measure (a.) The manner of ordering and combining the quantities, or long and short syllables; meter; rhythm; hence, a foot; as, a poem in iambic measure..

Belgravian :: Belgravian (a.) Belonging to Belgravia (a fashionable quarter of London, around Pimlico), or to fashionable life; aristocratic..

Xiphius :: Xiphius (n.) A genus of cetaceans having a long, pointed, bony beak, usually two tusklike teeth in the lower jaw, but no teeth in the upper jaw..

Longiloquence :: Longiloquence (n.) Long-windedness.

Overmast :: Overmast (v. t.) To furnish (a vessel) with too long or too heavy a mast or masts.

Viticulose :: Viticulose (a.) Having long and slender trailing stems.

Churchwarden :: Churchwarden (n.) A clay tobacco pipe, with a long tube..

Macrobiotic :: Macrobiotic (a.) Long-lived.

Determination :: Determination (n.) The act of determining the relations of an object, as regards genus and species; the referring of minerals, plants, or animals, to the species to which they belong; classification; as, I am indebted to a friend for the determination of most of these shells..

Race :: Race (n.) The descendants of a common ancestor; a family, tribe, people, or nation, believed or presumed to belong to the same stock; a lineage; a breed..

Old :: Old (superl.) Long practiced; hence, skilled; experienced; cunning; as, an old offender; old in vice..

Paw :: Paw (v. i.) To draw the forefoot along the ground; to beat or scrape with the forefoot.

Sicklebill :: Sicklebill (n.) Any one of three species of humming birds of the genus Eutoxeres, native of Central and South America. They have a long and strongly curved bill. Called also the sickle-billed hummer..

Sweep :: Sweep (v. i.) To carry with a long, swinging, or dragging motion; hence, to carry in a stately or proud fashion..

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