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Ovation :: Ovation (n.) Hence: An expression of popular homage; the tribute of the multitude to a public favorite.

Levy :: Levy (n.) That which is levied, as an army, force, tribute, etc..

Anthrax :: Anthrax (n.) An infectious disease of cattle and sheep. It is ascribed to the presence of a rod-shaped bacterium (Bacillus anthracis), the spores of which constitute the contagious matter. It may be transmitted to man by inoculation. The spleen becomes greatly enlarged and filled with bacteria. Called also splenic fever..

Help :: Help (v. i.) To lend aid or assistance; to contribute strength or means; to avail or be of use; to assist.

Ribwort :: Ribwort (n.) A species of plantain (Plantago lanceolata) with long, narrow, ribbed leaves; -- called also rib grass, ripple grass, ribwort plantain..

Euphemism :: Euphemism (n.) A figure in which a harts or indelicate word or expression is softened; a way of describing an offensive thing by an inoffensive expression; a mild name for something disagreeable.

Fortune :: Fortune (n.) The arrival of something in a sudden or unexpected manner; chance; accident; luck; hap; also, the personified or deified power regarded as determining human success, apportioning happiness and unhappiness, and distributing arbitrarily or fortuitously the lots of life..

Armure :: Armure (n.) A variety of twilled fabric ribbed on the surface.

Quince :: Quince (n.) The fruit of a shrub (Cydonia vulgaris) belonging to the same tribe as the apple. It somewhat resembles an apple, but differs in having many seeds in each carpel. It has hard flesh of high flavor, but very acid, and is largely used for marmalade, jelly, and preserves..

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..

Misdeal :: Misdeal (v. t. & i.) To deal or distribute wrongly, as cards; to make a wrong distribution..

Ascriptitious :: Ascriptitious (a.) Ascribed.

Myrmidon :: Myrmidon (n.) One of a fierce tribe or troop who accompained Achilles, their king, to the Trojan war..

Hypoxanthin :: Hypoxanthin (n.) A crystalline, nitrogenous substance, closely related to xanthin and uric acid, widely distributed through the animal body, but especially in muscle tissue; -- called also sarcin, sarkin..

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

Rescribe :: Rescribe (v. t.) To write back; to write in reply.

Caloric :: Caloric (n.) The principle of heat, or the agent to which the phenomena of heat and combustion were formerly ascribed; -- not now used in scientific nomenclature, but sometimes used as a general term for heat..

Ritual :: Ritual (n.) A prescribed form of performing divine service in a particular church or communion; as, the Jewish ritual..

Talisman :: Talisman (n.) A magical figure cut or engraved under certain superstitious observances of the configuration of the heavens, to which wonderful effects are ascribed; the seal, figure, character, or image, of a heavenly sign, constellation, or planet, engraved on a sympathetic stone, or on a metal corresponding to the star, in order to receive its influence..

Graduate :: Graduate (n.) One who has received an academical or professional degree; one who has completed the prescribed course of study in any school or institution of learning.

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