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Auger :: Auger (n.) A carpenter's tool for boring holes larger than those bored by a gimlet. It has a handle placed crosswise by which it is turned with both hands. A pod auger is one with a straight channel or groove, like the half of a bean pod. A screw auger has a twisted blade, by the spiral groove of which the chips are discharge..

Creese :: Creese (n.) A dagger or short sword used by the Malays, commonly having a serpentine blade..

Penta- :: Penta- () A combining form denoting five; as, pentacapsular; pentagon..

Otaheite Apple :: Otaheite apple () The fruit of a Polynesian anacardiaceous tree (Spondias dulcis), also called vi-apple. It is rather larger than an apple, and the rind has a flavor of turpentine, but the flesh is said to taste like pineapples..

Bom :: Bom (n.) A large American serpent, so called from the sound it makes..

Pentameter :: Pentameter (a.) Having five metrical feet.

Cockatrice :: Cockatrice (n.) A fabulous serpent whose breath and look were said to be fatal. See Basilisk.

Pentahedral :: Pentahedral (a.) Having five sides; as, a pentahedral figure..

Pentachloride :: Pentachloride (n.) A chloride having five atoms of chlorine in each molecule.

Sea Cucumber :: Sea cucumber () Any large holothurian, especially one of those belonging to the genus Pentacta, or Cucumaria, as the common American and European species. (P. frondosa)..

Run :: Run (a.) To creep, as serpents..

Syriac :: Syriac (a.) Of or pertaining to Syria, or its language; as, the Syriac version of the Pentateuch..

Laocoon :: Laocoon (n.) A marble group in the Vatican at Rome, representing the priest Laocoon, with his sons, infolded in the coils of two serpents, as described by Virgil..

Torpent :: Torpent (a.) Having no motion or activity; incapable of motion; benumbed; torpid.

Pentagynia :: Pentagynia (n. pl.) A Linnaean order of plants, having five styles or pistils..

Spend :: Spend (v. t.) To exhaust of force or strength; to waste; to wear away; as, the violence of the waves was spent..

Carpentry :: Carpentry (n.) The art of cutting, framing, and joining timber, as in the construction of buildings..

Nepenthes :: Nepenthes (n.) A genus of climbing plants found in India, Malaya, etc., which have the leaves prolonged into a kind of stout tendril terminating in a pitcherlike appendage, whence the plants are often called pitcher plants and monkey-cups. There are about thirty species, of which the best known is Nepenthes distillatoria. See Pitcher plant..

Pentaptote :: Pentaptote (n.) A noun having five cases.

Monkey-cup :: Monkey-cup (n.) See Nepenthes.

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