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Muskmelon :: Muskmelon (n.) The fruit of a cucubritaceous plant (Cicumis Melo), having a peculiar aromatic flavor, and cultivated in many varieties, the principal sorts being the cantaloupe, of oval form and yellowish flesh, and the smaller nutmeg melon with greenish flesh. See Illust. of Melon..

Conchoidal :: Conchoidal (a.) Having elevations or depressions in form like one half of a bivalve shell; -- applied principally to a surface produced by fracture.

Chief Justice :: Chief justice () The presiding justice, or principal judge, of a court..

Blade :: Blade (n.) The principal rafters of a roof.

Heroine :: Heroine (n.) The principal female person who figures in a remarkable action, or as the subject of a poem or story..

Fund :: Fund (v. t.) To provide and appropriate a fund or permanent revenue for the payment of the interest of; to make permanent provision of resources (as by a pledge of revenue from customs) for discharging the interest of or principal of; as, to fund government notes..

Preceptor :: Preceptor (n.) One who gives commands, or makes rules; specifically, the master or principal of a school; a teacher; an instructor..

Head :: Head (a.) Principal; chief; leading; first; as, the head master of a school; the head man of a tribe; a head chorister; a head cook..

Principal :: Principal (n.) A principal or essential point or rule; a principle.

Diversion :: Diversion (n.) The act of drawing the attention and force of an enemy from the point where the principal attack is to be made; the attack, alarm, or feint which diverts..

Business :: Business (n.) That which busies one, or that which engages the time, attention, or labor of any one, as his principal concern or interest, whether for a longer or shorter time; constant employment; regular occupation; as, the business of life; business before pleasure..

Beam :: Beam (n.) The principal stem or horn of a stag or other deer, which bears the antlers, or branches..

Great :: Great (superl.) Holding a chief position; elevated: lofty: eminent; distingushed; foremost; principal; as, great men; the great seal; the great marshal, etc..

Act :: Act (n.) A performance of part of a play; one of the principal divisions of a play or dramatic work in which a certain definite part of the action is completed.

Rhachis :: Rhachis (n.) The principal axis in a raceme, spike, panicle, or corymb..

Cyrenaic :: Cyrenaic (a.) Pertaining to Cyrenaica, an ancient country of northern Africa, and to Cyrene, its principal city; also, to a school of philosophy founded by Aristippus, a native of Cyrene..

Antares :: Antares (n.) The principal star in Scorpio: -- called also the Scorpion's Heart.

Anthozoa :: Anthozoa (n. pl.) The class of the Coelenterata which includes the corals and sea anemones. The three principal groups or orders are Acyonaria, Actinaria, and Madreporaria..

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..

Answerable :: Answerable (a.) Obliged to answer; liable to be called to account; liable to pay, indemnify, or make good; accountable; amenable; responsible; as, an agent is answerable to his principal; to be answerable for a debt, or for damages..

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