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Repent :: Repent (a.) Prostrate and rooting; -- said of stems.

Frostfish :: Frostfish (n.) The tomcod; -- so called because it is abundant on the New England coast in autumn at about the commencement of frost. See Tomcod.

Rostrum :: Rostrum (n.) Hence, a stage for public speaking; the pulpit or platform occupied by an orator or public speaker..

Sea Elephant :: Sea elephant () A very large seal (Macrorhinus proboscideus) of the Antarctic seas, much hunted for its oil. It sometimes attains a length of thirty feet, and is remarkable for the prolongation of the nose of the adult male into an erectile elastic proboscis, about a foot in length. Another species of smaller size (M. angustirostris) occurs on the coast of Lower California, but is now nearly extinct..

Baggage :: Baggage (n.) A woman of loose morals; a prostitute.

Quail :: Quail (n.) A prostitute; -- so called because the quail was thought to be a very amorous bird.

Common :: Common (v.) Given to habits of lewdness; prostitute.

Frostted :: Frostted (imp. & p. p.) of Fros.

Frost-blite :: Frost-blite (n.) The lamb's-quarters (Chenopodium album).

Rostriform :: Rostriform (a.) Having the form of a beak.

Offset :: Offset (n.) A short prostrate shoot, which takes root and produces a tuft of leaves, etc. See Illust. of Houseleek..

Siderostat :: Siderostat (n.) An apparatus consisting essentially of a mirror moved by clockwork so as to throw the rays of the sun or a star in a fixed direction; -- a more general term for heliostat.

Chuck-will''s-widow :: Chuck-Will's-widow (n.) A species of goatsucker (Antrostomus Carolinensis), of the southern United States; -- so called from its note..

Harlot :: Harlot (n.) A woman who prostitutes her body for hire; a prostitute; a common woman; a strumpet.

Rostrum :: Rostrum (n.) Same as Rostellum.

Gyrostatics :: Gyrostatics (n.) The doctrine or theory of the gyrostat, or of the phenomena of rotating bodies..

Devilfish :: Devilfish (n.) A huge ray (Manta birostris / Cephaloptera vampyrus) of the Gulf of Mexico and Southern Atlantic coasts. Several other related species take the same name. See Cephaloptera.

Agrostologic :: Agrostologic (a.) Alt. of Agrostologica.

Nipping :: Nipping (a.) Biting; pinching; painful; destructive; as, a nipping frost; a nipping wind..

Fall :: Fall (v. t.) To become prostrate and dead; to die; especially, to die by violence, as in battle..

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