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Drapery :: Drapery (n.) The occupation of a draper; cloth-making, or dealing in cloth..

Slippery :: Slippery (a.) Not easily held; liable or apt to slip away.

Waterwort :: Waterwort (n.) Any plant of the natural order Elatineae, consisting of two genera (Elatine, and Bergia), mostly small annual herbs growing in the edges of ponds. Some have a peppery or acrid taste..

Lubricate :: Lubricate (v. t.) To make smooth or slippery; as, mucilaginous and saponaceous remedies lubricate the parts to which they are applied..

Ulva :: Ulva (n.) A genus of thin papery bright green seaweeds including the kinds called sea lettuce.

Piperidine :: Piperidine (n.) An oily liquid alkaloid, C5H11N, having a hot, peppery, ammoniacal odor. It is related to pyridine, and is obtained by the decomposition of piperine..

Butterfish :: Butterfish (n.) A name given to several different fishes, in allusion to their slippery coating of mucus, as the Stromateus triacanthus of the Atlantic coast, the Epinephelus punctatus of the southern coast, the rock eel, and the kelpfish of New Zealand..

Peppery :: Peppery (a.) Fig.: Hot-tempered; passionate; choleric.

Stereotypic :: Stereotypery (n.) A place where stereotype plates are made; a stereotype foundry.

Gliddery :: Gliddery (a.) Giving no sure footing; smooth; slippery.

Antipapal :: Antipapal (a.) Opposed to the pope or to popery.

Lubrical :: Lubrical (a.) Having a smooth surface; slippery.

Frippery :: Frippery (n.) Hence: Secondhand finery; cheap and tawdry decoration; affected elegance.

Dupery :: Dupery (n.) The act or practice of duping.

Slipper :: Slipper (a.) Slippery.

Papistical :: Papistical (a.) Of or pertaining to the Church of Rome and its doctrines and ceremonies; pertaining to popery; popish; -- used disparagingly.

Lapwing :: Lapwing (n.) A small European bird of the Plover family (Vanellus cristatus, or V. vanellus). It has long and broad wings, and is noted for its rapid, irregular fight, upwards, downwards, and in circles. Its back is coppery or greenish bronze. Its eggs are the plover's eggs of the London market, esteemed a delicacy. It is called also peewit, dastard plover, and wype. The gray lapwing is the Squatarola cinerea..

Slabbery :: Slabbery (a.) Like, or covered with, slabber or slab; slippery; sloppy..

Foppery :: Foppery (n.) Folly; foolery.

Cupreous :: Cupreous (a.) Consisting of copper or resembling copper; coppery.

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