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Thimble :: Thimble (n.) A kind of cap or cover, or sometimes a broad ring, for the end of the finger, used in sewing to protect the finger when pushing the needle through the material. It is usually made of metal, and has upon the outer surface numerous small pits to catch the head of the needle..

Capital :: Capital (n.) Of or pertaining to the head.

Pitch :: Pitch (n.) The length, measured along the axis, of a complete turn of the thread of a screw, or of the helical lines of the blades of a screw propeller..

Flatten :: Flatten (v. i.) To become or grow flat, even, depressed dull, vapid, spiritless, or depressed below pitch..

Despitous :: Despitous (a.) Despiteous; very angry; cruel.

Epithet :: Epithet (n.) Term; expression; phrase.

Gorgerin :: Gorgerin (n.) In some columns, that part of the capital between the termination of the shaft and the annulet of the echinus, or the space between two neck moldings; -- called also neck of the capital, and hypotrachelium. See Illust. of Column..

Spitalhouse :: Spital (n.) A hospital.

Plunge :: Plunge (v. i.) To pitch or throw one's self headlong or violently forward, as a horse does..

Crampit :: Crampit (n.) See Crampet.

Amplification :: Amplification (n.) The enlarging of a simple statement by particularity of description, the use of epithets, etc., for rhetorical effect; diffuse narrative or description, or a dilating upon all the particulars of a subject..

Pit :: Pit (n.) See Pit of the stomach (below).

Pity :: Pity (v. t.) To move to pity; -- used impersonally.

Epitasis :: Epitasis (n.) The period of violence in a fever or disease; paroxysm.

Piteous :: Piteous (a.) Pious; devout.

Argive :: Argive (a.) Of or performance to Argos, the capital of Argolis in Greece..

Pithily :: Pithily (adv.) In a pithy manner.

Compendium :: Compendium (n.) A brief compilation or composition, containing the principal heads, or general principles, of a larger work or system; an abridgment; an epitome; a compend; a condensed summary..

Pleiades :: Pleiades (n. pl.) The seven daughters of Atlas and the nymph Pleione, fabled to have been made by Jupiter a constellation in the sky..

Ant-lion :: Ant-lion (n.) A neuropterous insect, the larva of which makes in the sand a pitfall to capture ants, etc. The common American species is Myrmeleon obsoletus, the European is M. formicarius..

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