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Powder :: Powder (v. t.) To reduce to fine particles; to pound, grind, or rub into a powder; to comminute; to pulverize; to triturate..

Forsythia :: Forsythia (a.) A shrub of the Olive family, with yellow blossoms..

Tip :: Tip (n.) Rubbish thrown from a quarry.

Gall :: Gall (n.) A wound in the skin made by rubbing.

Grub :: Grub (v. i.) To drudge; to do menial work.

Rase :: Rase (v. t.) To rub or scratch out; to erase.

Marrubium :: Marrubium (n.) A genus of bitter aromatic plants, sometimes used in medicine; hoarhound..

Chalk :: Chalk (v. t.) To rub or mark with chalk.

Urubu :: Urubu (n.) The black vulture (Catharista atrata). It ranges from the Southern United States to South America. See Vulture.

Guttiferous :: Guttiferous (a.) Pertaining to a natural order of trees and shrubs (Guttiferae) noted for their abounding in a resinous sap.

Touchstone :: Touchstone (n.) Lydian stone; basanite; -- so called because used to test the purity of gold and silver by the streak which is left upon the stone when it is rubbed by the metal. See Basanite.

Cherub :: Cherub (n.) A symbolical winged figure of unknown form used in connection with the mercy seat of the Jewish Ark and Temple.

Scrub :: Scrub (v. t.) To rub hard; to wash with rubbing; usually, to rub with a wet brush, or with something coarse or rough, for the purpose of cleaning or brightening; as, to scrub a floor, a doorplate..

Staving :: Stavewood (n.) A tall tree (Simaruba amara) growing in tropical America. It is one of the trees which yields quassia.

Oak :: Oak (n.) Any tree or shrub of the genus Quercus. The oaks have alternate leaves, often variously lobed, and staminate flowers in catkins. The fruit is a smooth nut, called an acorn, which is more or less inclosed in a scaly involucre called the cup or cupule. There are now recognized about three hundred species, of which nearly fifty occur in the United States, the rest in Europe, Asia, and the other parts of North America, a very few barely reaching the northern parts of South America and Afric

Stonebird :: Stone (n.) To rub, scour, or sharpen with a stone..

Strop :: Strop (v. t.) To draw over, or rub upon, a strop with a view to sharpen; as, to strop a razor..

Ordinal :: Ordinal (n.) A book containing the rubrics of the Mass.

Patas :: Patas (n.) A West African long-tailed monkey (Cercopithecus ruber); the red monkey.

Assart :: Assart (v. t.) To grub up, as trees; to commit an assart upon; as, to assart land or trees..

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