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Column :: Column (n.) Anything resembling, in form or position, a column in architecture; an upright body or mass; a shaft or obelisk; as, a column of air, of water, of mercury, etc.; the Column Vendome; the spinal column..

Volumist :: Volumist (n.) One who writes a volume; an author.

Shadowy :: Shadowy (a.) Not brightly luminous; faintly light.

Orphanage :: Orphanage (n.) An institution or asylum for the care of orphans.

Plumber Block :: Plumber block () A pillow block.

Lumbriciform :: Lumbriciform (a.) Resembling an earthworm; vermiform.

Goshawk :: Goshawk (n.) Any large hawk of the genus Astur, of which many species and varieties are known. The European (Astur palumbarius) and the American (A. atricapillus) are the best known species. They are noted for their powerful flight, activity, and courage. The Australian goshawk (A. Novae-Hollandiae) is pure white..

Flabellum :: Flabellum (n.) A fan; especially, the fan carried before the pope on state occasions, made in ostrich and peacock feathers..

Frumenty :: Frumenty (n.) Food made of hulled wheat boiled in milk, with sugar, plums, etc..

Patchwork :: Patchwork (n.) Work composed of pieces sewed together, esp. pieces of various colors and figures; hence, anything put together of incongruous or ill-adapted parts; something irregularly clumsily composed; a thing putched up..

Module :: Module (n.) The size of some one part, as the diameter of semi-diameter of the base of a shaft, taken as a unit of measure by which the proportions of the other parts of the composition are regulated. Generally, for columns, the semi-diameter is taken, and divided into a certain number of parts, called minutes (see Minute), though often the diameter is taken, and any dimension is said to be so many modules and minutes in height, breadth, or projection..

Spit :: Spissitude (n.) The quality or state of being spissated; as, the spissitude of coagulated blood, or of any coagulum..

Geissler Tube :: Geissler tube () A glass tube provided with platinum electrodes, and containing some gas under very low tension, which becomes luminous when an electrical discharge is passed through it; -- so called from the name of a noted maker in germany. It is called also Plucker tube, from the German physicist who devised it..

Chrysoberyl :: Chrysoberyl (n.) A mineral, found in crystals, of a yellow to green or brown color, and consisting of aluminia and glucina. It is very hard, and is often used as a gem..

Clumsily :: Clumsily (adv.) In a clumsy manner; awkwardly; as, to walk clumsily..

Compressed :: Compressed (a.) Pressed together; compacted; reduced in volume by pressure.

Santalaceous :: Santalaceous (a.) Of or pertaining to a natural order of plants (Santalaceae), of which the genus Santalum is the type, and which includes the buffalo nut and a few other North American plants, and many peculiar plants of the southern hemisphere..

Supernal :: Supernaculum (adv. & n.) Good liquor, of which not enough is left to wet one's nail..

Plump :: Plump (a.) To drop or fall suddenly or heavily, all at once..

Lazuli :: Lazuli (n.) A mineral of a fine azure-blue color, usually in small rounded masses. It is essentially a silicate of alumina, lime, and soda, with some sodium sulphide, is often marked by yellow spots or veins of sulphide of iron, and is much valued for ornamental work. Called also lapis lazuli, and Armenian stone..

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