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Sketch :: Sketch (n.) To plan or describe by giving the principal points or ideas of.

Quarter :: Quarter (n.) The encampment on one of the principal passages round a place besieged, to prevent relief and intercept convoys..

Semiparabola :: Semiparabola (n.) One branch of a parabola, being terminated at the principal vertex of the curve..

Occupation :: Occupation (n.) That which occupies or engages the time and attention; the principal business of one's life; vocation; employment; calling; trade.

Ischium :: Ischium (n.) The ventral and posterior of the three principal bones composing either half of the pelvis; seat bone; the huckle bone.

Bay :: Bay (n.) A principal compartment of the walls, roof, or other part of a building, or of the whole building, as marked off by the buttresses, vaulting, mullions of a window, etc.; one of the main divisions of any structure, as the part of a bridge between two piers..

Bicostate :: Bicostate (a.) Having two principal ribs running longitudinally, as a leaf..

Expectation :: Expectation (n.) The leaving of the disease principally to the efforts of nature to effect a cure.

Concertante :: Concertante (n.) A concert for two or more principal instruments, with orchestral accompaniment. Also adjectively; as, concertante parts..

Commodore :: Commodore (n.) A familiar for the flagship, or for the principal vessel of a squadron or fleet..

Up-line :: Up-line (n.) A line or track leading from the provinces toward the metropolis or a principal terminus; the track upon which up-trains run. See Up-train.

Staple :: Staple (n.) A shaft, smaller and shorter than the principal one, joining different levels..

Prolusion :: Prolusion (n.) A trial before the principal performance; a prelude; hence, an introductory essay or exercise..

Collateral :: Collateral (a.) Related to, but not strictly a part of, the main thing or matter under consideration; hence, subordinate; not chief or principal; as, collateral interest; collateral issues..

Purana :: Purana (n.) One of a class of sacred Hindoo poetical works in the Sanskrit language which treat of the creation, destruction, and renovation of worlds, the genealogy and achievements of gods and heroes, the reigns of the Manus, and the transactions of their descendants. The principal Puranas are eighteen in number, and there are the same number of supplementary books called Upa Puranas..

Nimbus :: Nimbus (n.) A rain cloud; one of the four principal varieties of clouds. See Cloud.

Staminal :: Stamina (n. pl.) Whatever constitutes the principal strength or support of anything; power of endurance; backbone; vigor; as, the stamina of a constitution or of life; the stamina of a State..

Troubadour :: Troubadour (n.) One of a school of poets who flourished from the eleventh to the thirteenth century, principally in Provence, in the south of France, and also in the north of Italy. They invented, and especially cultivated, a kind of lyrical poetry characterized by intricacy of meter and rhyme, and usually of a romantic, amatory strain..

Discuss :: Discuss (v. t.) To examine or search thoroughly; to exhaust a remedy against, as against a principal debtor before proceeding against the surety..

Principate :: Principate (n.) Principality; supreme rule.

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