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Pompholyx :: Pompholyx (n.) Impure zinc oxide.

Whalebone :: Whalebone (n.) A firm, elastic substance resembling horn, taken from the upper jaw of the right whale; baleen. It is used as a stiffening in stays, fans, screens, and for various other purposes. See Baleen..

Purveyor :: Purveyor (n.) An officer who formerly provided, or exacted provision, for the king's household..

Avocation :: Avocation (n.) Pursuits; duties; affairs which occupy one's time; usual employment; vocation.

Appurtenant :: Appurtenant (a.) Annexed or pertaining to some more important thing; accessory; incident; as, a right of way appurtenant to land or buildings..

Catch :: Catch (v. t.) To seize after pursuing; to arrest; as, to catch a thief..

Anthracite :: Anthracite (n.) A hard, compact variety of mineral coal, of high luster, differing from bituminous coal in containing little or no bitumen, in consequence of which it burns with a nearly non luminous flame. The purer specimens consist almost wholly of carbon. Also called glance coal and blind coal..

Latinity :: Latinity (n.) The Latin tongue, style, or idiom, or the use thereof; specifically, purity of Latin style or idiom..

Nectary :: Nectary (n.) That part of a blossom which secretes nectar, usually the base of the corolla or petals; also, the spur of such flowers as the larkspur and columbine, whether nectariferous or not. See the Illustration of Nasturtium..

Purveyance :: Purveyance (n.) The act or process of providing or procuring; providence; foresight; preparation; management.

Guipure :: Guipure (n.) A term used for lace of different kinds; most properly for a lace of large pattern and heavy material which has no ground or mesh, but has the pattern held together by connecting threads called bars or brides..

Plot :: Plot (n.) Any scheme, stratagem, secret design, or plan, of a complicated nature, adapted to the accomplishment of some purpose, usually a treacherous and mischievous one; a conspiracy; an intrigue; as, the Rye-house Plot..

Collin :: Collin (n.) A very pure form of gelatin.

Work :: Work (n.) To exert one's self for a purpose; to put forth effort for the attainment of an object; to labor; to be engaged in the performance of a task, a duty, or the like..

Lenitive :: Lenitive (n.) A mild purgative; a laxative.

Burke :: Burke (v. t.) To murder by suffocation, or so as to produce few marks of violence, for the purpose of obtaining a body to be sold for dissection..

Purport :: Purport (n.) Design or tendency; meaning; import; tenor.

Purvey :: Purvey (v. t.) To procure; to get.

Vestal :: Vestal (a.) Of or pertaining to Vesta, the virgin goddess of the hearth; hence, pure; chaste..

Heeler :: Heeler (n.) A cock that strikes well with his heels or spurs.

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