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Nemesis :: Nemesis (n.) The goddess of retribution or vengeance; hence, retributive justice personified; divine vengeance..

Dribble :: Dribble (v. t.) To let fall in drops.

Crib-biter :: Crib-biter (n.) A horse that has the habit of cribbing.

Thoracoplasty :: Thoracoplasty (n.) A remodeling or reshaping of the thorax; especially, the operation of removing the ribs, so as to obliterate the pleural cavity in cases of empyema..

Areopagus :: Areopagus (n.) The highest judicial court at Athens. Its sessions were held on Mars' Hill. Hence, any high court or tribunal.

Narrow :: Narrow (superl.) Of little extent; very limited; circumscribed.

Ogive :: Ogive (n.) The arch or rib which crosses a Gothic vault diagonally.

Epithet :: Epithet (n.) An adjective expressing some quality, attribute, or relation, that is properly or specially appropriate to a person or thing; as, a just man; a verdant lawn..

Exterminate :: Exterminate (v. t.) To destroy utterly; to cut off; to extirpate; to annihilate; to root out; as, to exterminate a colony, a tribe, or a nation; to exterminate error or vice..

Dragon :: Dragon (n.) A small arboreal lizard of the genus Draco, of several species, found in the East Indies and Southern Asia. Five or six of the hind ribs, on each side, are prolonged and covered with weblike skin, forming a sort of wing. These prolongations aid them in making long leaps from tree to tree. Called also flying lizard..

Conium :: Conium (n.) A genus of biennial, poisonous, white-flowered, umbelliferous plants, bearing ribbed fruit (seeds) and decompound leaves..

Coenesthesis :: Coenesthesis (n.) Common sensation or general sensibility, as distinguished from the special sensations which are located in, or ascribed to, separate organs, as the eye and ear. It is supposed to depend on the ganglionic system..

Brownian :: Brownian (a.) Pertaining to Dr. Robert Brown, who first demonstrated (about 1827) the commonness of the motion described below..

Testify :: Testify (v. i.) To make a solemn declaration under oath or affirmation, for the purpose of establishing, or making proof of, some fact to a court; to give testimony in a cause depending before a tribunal..

Imply :: Imply (v. t.) To refer, ascribe, or attribute..

Phytogeography :: Phytogeography (n.) The geographical distribution of plants.

Tributing :: Tributing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Tribut.

Direful :: Direful (a.) Dire; dreadful; terrible; calamitous; woeful; as, a direful fiend; a direful day..

Caribbean :: Caribbean (a.) Alt. of Caribbe.

Pleuralgia :: Pleuralgia (n.) Pain in the side or region of the ribs.

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