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Euphroe :: Euphroe (n.) A block or long slat of wood, perforated for the passage of the crowfoot, or cords by which an awning is held up..

Croesus :: Croesus (n.) A king of Lydia who flourished in the 6th century b. c., and was renowned for his vast wealth; hence, a common appellation for a very rich man; as, he is a veritable Croesus..

Bevy :: Bevy (n.) A flock of birds, especially quails or larks; also, a herd of roes..

Uroerythrin :: Uroerythrin (n.) A reddish urinary pigment, considered as the substance which gives to the urine of rheumatism its characteristic color. It also causes the red color often seen in deposits of urates..

Roedeer :: Roedeer (n.) The roebuck.

Colored :: Colored (a.) Of some other color than white; specifically applied to negroes or persons having negro blood; as, a colored man; the colored people..

Voodooism :: Voodooism (n.) A degraded form of superstition and sorcery, said to include human sacrifices and cannibalism in some of its rites. It is prevalent among the negroes of Hayti, and to some extent in the United States, and is regarded as a relic of African barbarism..

Rounceval :: Rounceval (a.) Large; strong; -- from the gigantic bones shown at Roncesvalles, and alleged to be those of old heroes..

Metemptosis :: Metemptosis (n.) The suppression of a day in the calendar to prevent the date of the new moon being set a day too late, or the suppression of the bissextile day once in 134 years. The opposite to this is the proemptosis, or the addition of a day every 330 years, and another every 2,400 years..

Oolite :: Oolite (n.) A variety of limestone, consisting of small round grains, resembling the roe of a fish. It sometimes constitutes extensive beds, as in the European Jurassic. See the Chart of Geology..

Pyroelectricity :: Pyroelectricity (n.) Electricity developed by means of heat; the science which treats of electricity thus developed.

Proembryo :: Proembryo (n.) The series of cells formed in the ovule of a flowering plant after fertilization, but before the formation of the embryo..

Matie :: Matie (n.) A fat herring with undeveloped roe.

Ammite :: Ammite (n.) Oolite or roestone; -- written also hammite.

Suspensoria :: Suspensor (n.) The cord which suspends the embryo; and which is attached to the radicle in the young state; the proembryo.

Milt :: Milt (v. t.) To impregnate (the roe of a fish) with milt.

Proembryo :: Proembryo (n.) The primary growth from the spore in certain cryptogamous plants; as, the proembryo, or protonema, of mosses..

Pyroelectric :: Pyroelectric (a.) Pertaining to, or dependent on, pyroelectricity; receiving electric polarity when heated..

Hemuse :: Hemuse (n.) The roebuck in its third year.

Roe :: Roe (n.) The ova or spawn of fishes and amphibians, especially when still inclosed in the ovarian membranes. Sometimes applied, loosely, to the sperm and the testes of the male..

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