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Obvoluted :: Obvoluted (a.) Overlapping; contorted; convolute; -- applied primarily, in botany, to two opposite leaves, each of which has one edge overlapping the nearest edge of the other, and secondarily to a circle of several leaves or petals which thus overlap..

Subpyriform :: Subpurchaser (n.) A purchaser who buys from a purchaser; one who buys at second hand.

Seconder :: Seconder (n.) One who seconds or supports what another attempts, affirms, moves, or proposes; as, the seconder of an enterprise or of a motion..

Hockday :: Hockday (n.) A holiday commemorating the expulsion of the Danes, formerly observed on the second Tuesday after Easter; -- called also hocktide..

Crescent :: Crescent (n.) Any one of three orders of knighthood; the first instituted by Charles I., king of Naples and Sicily, in 1268; the second by Rene of Anjou, in 1448; and the third by the Sultan Selim III., in 1801, to be conferred upon foreigners to whom Turkey might be indebted for valuable services..

Decrement :: Decrement (n.) A name given by Hauy to the successive diminution of the layers of molecules, applied to the faces of the primitive form, by which he supposed the secondary forms to be produced..

Pinus :: Pinus (n.) A large genus of evergreen coniferous trees, mostly found in the northern hemisphere. The genus formerly included the firs, spruces, larches, and hemlocks, but is now limited to those trees which have the primary leaves of the branchlets reduced to mere scales, and the secondary ones (pine needles) acicular, and usually in fascicles of two to seven. See Pine..

Moon :: Moon (n.) A secondary planet, or satellite, revolving about any member of the solar system; as, the moons of Jupiter or Saturn..

Reaccess :: Reaccess (n.) A second access or approach; a return.

Recoction :: Recoction (n.) A second coction or preparation; a vamping up.

Nazarene :: Nazarene (n.) One of a sect of Judaizing Christians in the first and second centuries, who observed the laws of Moses, and held to certain heresies..

Recombination :: Recombination (n.) Combination a second or additional time.

Yourself :: Yourself (pron.) An emphasized or reflexive form of the pronoun of the second person; -- used as a subject commonly with you; as, you yourself shall see it; also, alone in the predicate, either in the nominative or objective case; as, you have injured yourself..

Indent :: Indent (v. t.) To begin (a line or lines) at a greater or less distance from the margin; as, to indent the first line of a paragraph one em; to indent the second paragraph two ems more than the first. See Indentation, and Indention..

Paracorolla :: Paracorolla (n.) A secondary or inner corolla; a corona, as of the Narcissus..

Minute :: Minute (n.) The sixtieth part of a degree; sixty seconds (Marked thus ('); as, 10¡ 20')..

Trochoid :: Trochoid (n.) The curve described by any point in a wheel rolling on a line; a cycloid; a roulette; in general, the curve described by any point fixedly connected with a moving curve while the moving curve rolls without slipping on a second fixed curve, the curves all being in one plane. Cycloids, epicycloids, hypocycloids, cardioids, etc., are all trochoids..

Rider :: Rider (n.) The second tier of casks in a vessel's hold.

Finos :: Finos (n. pl.) Second best wool from Merino sheep.

Convert :: Convert (v. t.) To change (one proposition) into another, so that what was the subject of the first becomes the predicate of the second..

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