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Advisable :: Advisable (a.) Ready to receive advice.

Receiver :: Receiver (n.) A capacious vessel for receiving steam from a distant boiler, and supplying it dry to an engine..

Borrow :: Borrow (v. t.) To receive from another as a loan, with the implied or expressed intention of returning the identical article or its equivalent in kind; -- the opposite of lend..

Receiver :: Receiver (n.) A vessel connected with an alembic, a retort, or the like, for receiving and condensing the product of distillation..

Shrive :: Shrive (v. t.) To confess, and receive absolution; -- used reflexively..

Abutment :: Abutment (n.) The solid part of a pier or wall, etc., which receives the thrust or lateral pressure of an arch, vault, or strut..

Chamberlain :: Chamberlain (n.) A treasurer or receiver of public money; as, the chamberlain of London, of North Wales, etc..

Pass :: Pass (v. i.) To advance through all the steps or stages necessary to validity or effectiveness; to be carried through a body that has power to sanction or reject; to receive legislative sanction; to be enacted; as, the resolution passed; the bill passed both houses of Congress..

Advance :: Advance (a.) Before in place, or beforehand in time; -- used for advanced; as, an advance guard, or that before the main guard or body of an army; advance payment, or that made before it is due; advance proofs, advance sheets, pages of a forthcoming volume, received in advance of the time of publication..

Cotyloid :: Cotyloid (a.) Shaped like a cup; as, the cotyloid cavity, which receives the head of the thigh bone..

Ventricle :: Ventricle (n.) A cavity, or one of the cavities, of an organ, as of the larynx or the brain; specifically, the posterior chamber, or one of the two posterior chambers, of the heart, which receives the blood from the auricle and forces it out from the heart. See Heart..

Inadmissible :: Inadmissible (a.) Not admissible; not proper to be admitted, allowed, or received; as, inadmissible testimony; an inadmissible proposition, or explanation..

Draw :: Draw (v. t.) To take from a box or wheel, as a lottery ticket; to receive from a lottery by the drawing out of the numbers for prizes or blanks; hence, to obtain by good fortune; to win; to gain; as, he drew a prize..

Guest :: Guest (n.) A visitor; a person received and entertained in one's house or at one's table; a visitor entertained without pay.

Profit :: Profit (n.) Acquisition beyond expenditure; excess of value received for producing, keeping, or selling, over cost; hence, pecuniary gain in any transaction or occupation; emolument; as, a profit on the sale of goods..

Magnetic :: Magnetic (n.) Any metal, as iron, nickel, cobalt, etc., which may receive, by any means, the properties of the loadstone, and which then, when suspended, fixes itself in the direction of a magnetic meridian..

Draw :: Draw (v. t.) To take or procure from a place of deposit; to call for and receive from a fund, or the like; as, to draw money from a bank..

Resent :: Resent (v. t.) In a good sense, to take well; to receive with satisfaction..

Licentiate :: Licentiate (n.) A friar authorized to receive confessions and grant absolution in all places, independently of the local clergy..

Owe :: Owe (v.) Hence: To have or be under an obigation to restore, pay, or render (something) in return or compensation for something received; to be indebted in the sum of; as, the subject owes allegiance; the fortunate owe assistance to the unfortunate..

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