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Fissirostral :: Fissirostral (a.) Having the bill cleft beyond the horny part, as in the case of swallows and goatsuckers..

Flatten :: Flatten (a.) To throw down; to bring to the ground; to prostrate; hence, to depress; to deject; to dispirit..

Flatness :: Flatness (n.) Want of vivacity or spirit; prostration; dejection; depression.

Kotow :: Kotow (n.) The prostration made by mandarins and others to their superiors, either as homage or worship, by knocking the forehead on the ground. There are degrees in the rite, the highest being expressed by three knockings..

Birostrate :: Birostrate (a.) Alt. of Birostrate.

Arthromere :: Arthromere (n.) One of the body segments of Arthropods. See Arthrostraca.

Fall :: Fall (v. t.) To cease to be erect; to take suddenly a recumbent posture; to become prostrate; to drop; as, a child totters and falls; a tree falls; a worshiper falls on his knees..

Sifter :: Sifter (n.) Any lamellirostral bird, as a duck or goose; -- so called because it sifts or strains its food from the water and mud by means of the lamell/ of the beak..

Dentiroster :: Dentiroster (n.) A dentirostral bird.

Brevirostrate :: Brevirostrate (a.) Short-billed; having a short beak.

Lamellirostral :: Lamellirostral (a.) Having a lamellate bill, as ducks and geese..

Hazel :: Hazel (n.) A shrub or small tree of the genus Corylus, as the C. avellana, bearing a nut containing a kernel of a mild, farinaceous taste; the filbert. The American species are C. Americana, which produces the common hazelnut, and C. rostrata. See Filbert..

Sarment :: Sarment (n.) A prostrate filiform stem or runner, as of the strawberry. See Runner..

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

Indicate :: Indicate (v. t.) To show or manifest by symptoms; to point to as the proper remedies; as, great prostration of strength indicates the use of stimulants..

Erostrate :: Erostrate (a.) Without a beak.

Rostral :: Rostral (a.) Of or pertaining to the beak or snout of an animal, or the beak of a ship; resembling a rostrum, esp., the rostra at Rome, or their decorations..

Rostra :: Rostra (n. pl.) See Rostrum, 2..

Rostra :: Rostra (pl. ) of Rostru.

Bow :: Bow (v. t.) To cause to bend down; to prostrate; to depress,;/ to crush; to subdue..

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