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Myricin :: Myricin (n.) A silky, crystalline, waxy substance, forming the less soluble part of beeswax, and regarded as a palmitate of a higher alcohol of the paraffin series; -- called also myricyl alcohol..

Staple :: Staple (n.) A settled mart; an emporium; a city or town to which merchants brought commodities for sale or exportation in bulk; a place for wholesale traffic.

Raff :: Raff (n.) The sweepings of society; the rabble; the mob; -- chiefly used in the compound or duplicate, riffraff..

Petroline :: Petroline (n.) A paraffin obtained from petroleum from Rangoon in India, and practically identical with ordinary paraffin..

Neo- :: Neo- () A prefix meaning new, recent, late; and in chemistry designating specifically that variety of metameric hydrocarbons which, when the name was applied, had been recently classified, and in which at least one carbon atom in connected directly with four other carbon atoms; -- contrasted with normal and iso-; as, neopentane; the neoparaffins. Also used adjectively..

Raffle :: Raffle (v. t.) To dispose of by means of a raffle; -- often followed by off; as, to raffle off a horse..

Raffish :: Raffish (a.) Resembling, or having the character of, raff, or a raff; worthless; low..

Vaseline :: Vaseline (n.) A yellowish translucent substance, almost odorless and tasteless, obtained as a residue in the purification of crude petroleum, and consisting essentially of a mixture of several of the higher members of the paraffin series. It is used as an unguent, and for various purposes in the arts. See the Note under Petrolatum..

Camelopard :: Camelopard (n.) An African ruminant; the giraffe. See Giraffe.

Traffic :: Traffic (v.) Commodities of the market.

Rafflesia :: Rafflesia (n.) A genus of stemless, leafless plants, living parasitically upon the roots and stems of grapevines in Malaysia. The flowers have a carrionlike odor, and are very large, in one species (Rafflesia Arnoldi) having a diameter of two or three feet..

Scraffle :: Scraffle (v. i.) To scramble or struggle; to wrangle; also, to be industrious..

Draff :: Draff (n.) A narrow border left on a finished stone, worked differently from the rest of its face..

Occupy :: Occupy (v. i.) To follow business; to traffic.

Hendecane :: Hendecane (n.) A hydrocarbon, C11H24, of the paraffin series; -- so called because it has eleven atoms of carbon in each molecule. Called also endecane, undecane..

Overaffect :: Overaffect (v. t.) To affect or care for unduly.

Lignoceric :: Lignoceric (a.) Pertaining to, or designating, an acid of the formic acid series, found in the tar, wax, or paraffine obtained by distilling certain kinds of wood, as the beech..

Draff :: Draff (n.) The act of drawing; also, the thing drawn. Same as Draught..

Draff :: Draff (n.) A selecting or detaching of soldiers from an army, or from any part of it, or from a military post; also from any district, or any company or collection of persons, or from the people at large; also, the body of men thus drafted..

Raffaelesque :: Raffaelesque (a.) Raphaelesque.

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