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Scutate :: Scutate (a.) Buckler-shaped; round or nearly round.

Burn :: Burn (v. i.) In certain games, to approach near to a concealed object which is sought..

Forward :: Forward (a.) Near, or at the fore part; in advance of something else; as, the forward gun in a ship, or the forward ship in a fleet..

Down :: Down (prep.) A tract of poor, sandy, undulating or hilly land near the sea, covered with fine turf which serves chiefly for the grazing of sheep; -- usually in the plural..

League :: League (n.) A stone erected near a public road to mark the distance of a league.

Anthracite :: Anthracite (n.) A hard, compact variety of mineral coal, of high luster, differing from bituminous coal in containing little or no bitumen, in consequence of which it burns with a nearly non luminous flame. The purer specimens consist almost wholly of carbon. Also called glance coal and blind coal..

Pultaceous :: Pultaceous (a.) Macerated; softened; nearly fluid.

Skipjack :: Skipjack (n.) A shallow sailboat with a rectilinear or V-shaped cross section.

Trump :: Trump (n.) An old game with cards, nearly the same as whist; -- called also ruff..

Nigh :: Nigh (v. t. & i.) To draw nigh (to); to approach; to come near.

Hurlbone :: Hurlbone (n.) A bone near the middle of the buttock of a horse.

Leek :: Leek (n.) A plant of the genus Allium (A. Porrum), having broadly linear succulent leaves rising from a loose oblong cylindrical bulb. The flavor is stronger than that of the common onion..

Neighbor :: Neighbor (n.) One who is near in sympathy or confidence.

Winnebagoes :: Winnebagoes (n.) A tribe of North American Indians who originally occupied the region about Green Bay, Lake Michigan, but were driven back from the lake and nearly exterminated in 1640 by the IIlinnois..

Linearensate :: Linearensate (a.) Having the form of a sword, but very long and narrow..

Salvo :: Salvo (n.) A salute paid by a simultaneous, or nearly simultaneous, firing of a number of cannon..

Vingt Et Un :: Vingt et un () A game at cards, played by two or more persons. The fortune of each player depends upon obtaining from the dealer such cards that the sum of their pips, or spots, is twenty-one, or a number near to it..

Paramastoid :: Paramastoid (a.) Situated beside, or near, the mastoid portion of the temporal bone; paroccipital; -- applied especially to a process of the skull in some animals..

Moravian :: Moravian (n.) One of a religious sect called the United Brethren (an offshoot of the Hussites in Bohemia), which formed a separate church of Moravia, a northern district of Austria, about the middle of the 15th century. After being nearly extirpated by persecution, the society, under the name of The Renewed Church of the United Brethren, was reestablished in 1722-35 on the estates of Count Zinzendorf in Saxony. Called also Herrnhuter..

Allhallowtide :: Allhallowtide (n.) The time at or near All Saints, or November 1st..

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