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Contractor :: Contractor (n.) One who contracts; one of the parties to a bargain; one who covenants to do anything for another; specifically, one who contracts to perform work on a rather large scale, at a certain price or rate, as in building houses or making a railroad..

Connection :: Connection (n.) A relation; esp. a person connected with another by marriage rather than by blood; -- used in a loose and indefinite, and sometimes a comprehensive, sense..

Than :: Than (conj.) A particle expressing comparison, used after certain adjectives and adverbs which express comparison or diversity, as more, better, other, otherwise, and the like. It is usually followed by the object compared in the nominative case. Sometimes, however, the object compared is placed in the objective case, and than is then considered by some grammarians as a preposition. Sometimes the object is expressed in a sentence, usually introduced by that; as, I would rather suffer than that y

Trap :: Trap (n.) An old term rather loosely used to designate various dark-colored, heavy igneous rocks, including especially the feldspathic-augitic rocks, basalt, dolerite, amygdaloid, etc., but including also some kinds of diorite. Called also trap rock..

Cake :: Cake (n.) A mass of matter concreted, congealed, or molded into a solid mass of any form, esp. into a form rather flat than high; as, a cake of soap; an ague cake..

Pyin :: Pyin (n.) An albuminoid constituent of pus, related to mucin, possibly a mixture of substances rather than a single body..

Rather :: Rather (a.) Earlier; sooner; before.

Anyone :: Anyone (n.) One taken at random rather than by selection; anybody. [Commonly written as two words..

Maroon :: Maroon (n.) A brownish or dull red of any description, esp. of a scarlet cast rather than approaching crimson or purple..

Melop/ia :: Melop/ia (n.) The art of forming melody; melody; -- now often used for a melodic passage, rather than a complete melody..

Wildish :: Wildish (a.) Somewhat wild; rather wild.

Sloop :: Sloop (n.) A vessel having one mast and fore-and-aft rig, consisting of a boom-and-gaff mainsail, jibs, staysail, and gaff topsail. The typical sloop has a fixed bowsprit, topmast, and standing rigging, while those of a cutter are capable of being readily shifted. The sloop usually carries a centerboard, and depends for stability upon breadth of beam rather than depth of keel. The two types have rapidly approximated since 1880. One radical distinction is that a slop may carry a centerboard. See

Pomegranate :: Pomegranate (n.) The fruit of the tree Punica Granatum; also, the tree itself (see Balaustine), which is native in the Orient, but is successfully cultivated in many warm countries, and as a house plant in colder climates. The fruit is as large as an orange, and has a hard rind containing many rather large seeds, each one separately covered with crimson, acid pulp..

Piecework :: Piecework (n.) Work done by the piece or job; work paid for at a rate based on the amount of work done, rather than on the time employed..

Ideo-motor :: Ideo-motor (a.) Applied to those actions, or muscular movements, which are automatic expressions of dominant ideas, rather than the result of distinct volitional efforts, as the act of expressing the thoughts in speech, or in writing, while the mind is occupied in the composition of the sentence..

Rather :: Rather (a.) In some degree; somewhat; as, the day is rather warm; the house is rather damp..

Siciliano :: Siciliano (n.) A Sicilian dance, resembling the pastorale, set to a rather slow and graceful melody in 12-8 or 6-8 measure; also, the music to the dance..

Verbal :: Verbal (a.) Consisting in, or having to do with, words only; dealing with words rather than with the ideas intended to be conveyed; as, a verbal critic; a verbal change..

Square :: Square (a.) Having a shape broad for the height, with rectilineal and angular rather than curving outlines; as, a man of a square frame..

Realistic :: Realistic (a.) Of or pertaining to the realists; in the manner of the realists; characterized by realism rather than by imagination.

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