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Nutation :: Nutation (n.) A very small libratory motion of the earth's axis, by which its inclination to the plane of the ecliptic is constantly varying by a small amount..

Upsoar :: Upsoar (v. i.) To soar or mount up.

Snuff :: Snuff (n.) Pulverized tobacco, etc., prepared to be taken into the nose; also, the amount taken at once..

Tax :: Tax (n.) To assess, fix, or determine judicially, the amount of; as, to tax the cost of an action in court..

Sheeling :: Sheeling (n.) A hut or small cottage in an expessed or a retired place (as on a mountain or at the seaside) such as is used by shepherds, fishermen, sportsmen, etc.; a summer cottage; also, a shed..

Ozonoscopic :: Ozonoscopic (a.) Serving to indicate the presence or the amount of ozone.

Rocking-chair :: Rocking-chair (n.) A chair mounted on rockers, in which one may rock..

Work :: Work (n.) The causing of motion against a resisting force. The amount of work is proportioned to, and is measured by, the product of the force into the amount of motion along the direction of the force. See Conservation of energy, under Conservation, Unit of work, under Unit, also Foot pound, Horse power, Poundal, and Erg..

Tender :: Tender (n.) An offer, either of money to pay a debt, or of service to be performed, in order to save a penalty or forfeiture, which would be incurred by nonpayment or nonperformance; as, the tender of rent due, or of the amount of a note, with interest..

Mountain :: Mountain (n.) A mountainlike mass; something of great bulk.

Ravine :: Ravine (n.) A deep and narrow hollow, usually worn by a stream or torrent of water; a gorge; a mountain cleft..

Coehorn :: Coehorn (n.) A small bronze mortar mounted on a wooden block with handles, and light enough to be carried short distances by two men..

Rainfall :: Rainfall (n.) A fall or descent of rain; the water, or amount of water, that falls in rain; as, the average annual rainfall of a region..

Escalade :: Escalade (v. t.) A furious attack made by troops on a fortified place, in which ladders are used to pass a ditch or mount a rampart..

Drawback :: Drawback (n.) Money paid back or remitted; especially, a certain amount of duties or customs, sometimes the whole, and sometimes only a part, remitted or paid back by the government, on the exportation of the commodities on which they were levied..

Thyrsus :: Thyrsus (n.) A staff entwined with ivy, and surmounted by a pine cone, or by a bunch of vine or ivy leaves with grapes or berries. It is an attribute of Bacchus, and of the satyrs and others engaging in Bacchic rites..

Quacksalver :: Quacksalver (n.) One who boasts of his skill in medicines and salves, or of the efficacy of his prescriptions; a charlatan; a quack; a mountebank..

Mounty :: Mounty (v.) The rise of a hawk after prey.

Geosynclinal :: Geosynclinal (n.) the downward bend or subsidence of the earth's crust, which allows of the gradual accumulation of sediment, and hence forms the first step in the making of a mountain range; -- opposed to geanticlinal..

Hotchpotch :: Hotchpotch (n.) A blending of property for equality of division, as when lands given in frank-marriage to one daughter were, after the death of the ancestor, blended with the lands descending to her and to her sisters from the same ancestor, and then divided in equal portions among all the daughters. In modern usage, a mixing together, or throwing into a common mass or stock, of the estate left by a person deceased and the amounts advanced to any particular child or children, for the purpose of

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