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Sandalwood :: Sandalwood (n.) The red wood of a kind of buckthorn, used in Russia for dyeing leather (Rhamnus Dahuricus)..

Trussing :: Trussing (n.) The art of stiffening or bracing a set of timbers, or the like, by putting in struts, ties, etc., till it has something of the character of a truss..

Prussiate :: Prussiate (n.) A salt of prussic acid; a cyanide.

Russification :: Russification (n.) The act or process of Russifying, or the state of being Russified..

Truss :: Truss (n.) To bind or pack close; to make into a truss.

Strelitzia :: Strelitz (n. sing. & pl.) A soldier of the ancient Muscovite guard or Russian standing army; also, the guard itself..

Ban :: Ban (n.) A calling together of the king's (esp. the French king's) vassals for military service; also, the body of vassals thus assembled or summoned. In present usage, in France and Prussia, the most effective part of the population liable to military duty and not in the standing army..

Hip :: Hip (n.) In a bridge truss, the place where an inclined end post meets the top chord..

Truss :: Truss (n.) The rope or iron used to keep the center of a yard to the mast.

Carlock :: Carlock (n.) A sort of Russian isinglass, made from the air bladder of the sturgeon, and used in clarifying wine..

Kingtruss :: Kingtruss () A truss, framed with a king-post; -- used in roofs, bridges, etc..

Knout :: Knout (n.) A kind of whip for flogging criminals, formerly much used in Russia. The last is a tapering bundle of leather thongs twisted with wire and hardened, so that it mangles the flesh..

Kummel :: Kummel (n.) A Russian and German liqueur, consisting of a sweetened spirit flavored with caraway seeds..

Woad-waxen :: Woad-waxen (n.) A leguminous plant (Genista tinctoria) of Europe and Russian Asia, and adventitious in America; -- called also greenwood, greenweed, dyer's greenweed, and whin, wood-wash, wood-wax, and wood-waxen..

Permians :: Permians (n. pl.) A tribe belonging to the Finnic race, and inhabiting a portion of Russia..

King-post :: King-post (n.) A member of a common form of truss, as a roof truss. It is strictly a tie, intended to prevent the sagging of the tiebeam in the middle. If there are struts, supporting the main rafters, they often bear upon the foot of the king-post. Called also crown-post..

Imperial :: Imperial (n.) A gold coin of Russia worth ten rubles, or about eight dollars..

Russophile :: Russophile (n.) Alt. of Russophilis.

Desman :: Desman (n.) An amphibious, insectivorous mammal found in Russia (Myogale moschata). It is allied to the moles, but is called muskrat by some English writers..

Lapps :: Lapps (n. pl.) A branch of the Mongolian race, now living in the northern parts of Norway, Sweden, and the adjacent parts of Russia..

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