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Recumbence :: Recumbence (n.) The act of leaning, resting, or reclining; the state of being recumbent..

Impresting :: Impresting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Impres.

Putlog :: Putlog (n.) One of the short pieces of timber on which the planks forming the floor of a scaffold are laid, -- one end resting on the ledger of the scaffold, and the other in a hole left in the wall temporarily for the purpose..

Custom :: Custom (n.) Long-established practice, considered as unwritten law, and resting for authority on long consent; usage. See Usage, and Prescription..

Rocking-stone :: Rocking-stone (n.) A stone, often of great size and weight, resting upon another stone, and so exactly poised that it can be rocked, or slightly moved, with but little force..

Insipid :: Insipid (a.) Wanting in spirit, life, or animation; uninteresting; weak; vapid; flat; dull; heavy; as, an insipid woman; an insipid composition..

Trust :: Trust (n.) Assured resting of the mind on the integrity, veracity, justice, friendship, or other sound principle, of another person; confidence; reliance; reliance..

Readable :: Readable (a.) Such as can be read; legible; fit or suitable to be read; worth reading; interesting.

Restinguish :: Restinguish (v. t.) To quench or extinguish.

Superinduced :: Superincumbent (a.) Lying or resting on something else.

Fid :: Fid (n.) A square bar of wood or iron, used to support the topmast, being passed through a hole or mortise at its heel, and resting on the trestle trees..

Dust :: Dust (n.) The earth, as the resting place of the dead..

Incumbent :: Incumbent (a.) Lying, resting, or imposed, as a duty or obligation; obligatory; always with on or upon..

Poke :: Poke (n.) A lazy person; a dawdler; also, a stupid or uninteresting person..

Cog :: Cog (n.) A kind of tenon on the end of a joist, received into a notch in a bearing timber, and resting flush with its upper surface..

Sclerotium :: Sclerotium (n.) The mature or resting stage of a plasmodium.

Acupressure :: Acupressure (n.) A mode of arresting hemorrhage resulting from wounds or surgical operations, by passing under the divided vessel a needle, the ends of which are left exposed externally on the cutaneous surface..

Wrest :: Wrest (n.) The act of wresting; a wrench; a violent twist; hence, distortion; perversion..

Supposititious :: Suppositional (a.) Resting on supposition; hypothetical; conjectural; supposed.

Statical :: Statical (a.) Resting; acting by mere weight without motion; as, statical pressure; static objects..

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