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Halloween :: Halloween (n.) The evening preceding Allhallows or All Saints' Day.

Quadragesima :: Quadragesima (n.) The forty days of fast preceding Easter; Lent.

Proxime :: Proxime (a.) Next; immediately preceding or following.

Recapitulation :: Recapitulation (n.) The act of recapitulating; a summary, or concise statement or enumeration, of the principal points, facts, or statements, in a preceding discourse, argument, or essay..

Kilting :: Kilting (n.) A perpendicular arrangement of flat, single plaits, each plait being folded so as to cover half the breadth of the preceding one..

Preceding :: Preceding (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Preced.

Uredo :: Uredo (n.) One of the stages in the life history of certain rusts (Uredinales), regarded at one time as a distinct genus. It is a summer stage preceding the teleutospore, or winter stage. See Uredinales, in the Supplement..

Proximate :: Proximate (a.) Nearest; next immediately preceding or following.

Predecessive :: Predecessive (a.) Going before; preceding.

Hereinbefore :: Hereinbefore (adv.) In the preceding part of this (writing, document, book, etc.)..

Following :: Following (a.) (In the field of a telescope) In the direction from which stars are apparently moving (in consequence of the earth's rotation); as, a small star, north following or south following. In the direction toward which stars appear to move is called preceding..

After-note :: After-note (n.) One of the small notes occur on the unaccented parts of the measure, taking their time from the preceding note..

Cheliform :: Cheliform (a.) Having a movable joint or finger closing against a preceding joint or a projecting part of it, so that the whole may be used for grasping, as the claw of a crab; pincherlike..

Precedent :: Precedent (n.) A preceding circumstance or condition; an antecedent; hence, a prognostic; a token; a sign..

Penult :: Penult (n.) The last syllable but one of a word; the syllable preceding the final one.

Shrovetide :: Shrovetide (n.) The days immediately preceding Ash Widnesday, especially the period between the evening before Quinguagesima Sunday and the morning of Ash Wednesday..

Reduplication :: Reduplication (n.) A figure in which the first word of a verse is the same as the last word of the preceding verse.

Rigor :: Rigor (n.) A sense of chilliness, with contraction of the skin; a convulsive shuddering or tremor, as in the chill preceding a fever..

Afar :: Afar (adv.) At, to, or from a great distance; far away; -- often used with from preceding, or off following; as, he was seen from afar; I saw him afar off..

Enclitical :: Enclitical (v. i.) Affixed; subjoined; -- said of a word or particle which leans back upon the preceding word so as to become a part of it, and to lose its own independent accent, generally varying also the accent of the preceding word..

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