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Nub :: Nub (v. t.) To push; to nudge; also, to beckon..

Becket :: Becket (n.) A spade for digging turf.

Skilling :: Skilling (n.) A money od account in Sweden, Norwey, Denmark, and North Germany, and also a coin. It had various values, from three fourths of a cent in Norway to more than two cents in Lubeck..

Purbeck Stone :: Purbeck stone () A limestone from the Isle of Purbeck in England.

Canonize :: Canonize (v. t.) To declare (a deceased person) a saint; to put in the catalogue of saints; as, Thomas a Becket was canonized..

Purbeck Beds :: Purbeck beds () The strata of the Purbeck stone, or Purbeck limestone, belonging to the Oolitic group. See the Chart of Geology..

Supinity :: Supine (n.) A verbal noun; or (according to C.F.Becker), a case of the infinitive mood ending in -um and -u, that in -um being sometimes called the former supine, and that in -u the latter supine..

Beck :: Beck (n.) A significant nod, or motion of the head or hand, esp. as a call or command..

Beck :: Beck (v. t.) To notify or call by a nod, or a motion of the head or hand; to intimate a command to..

Beckon :: Beckon (n.) A sign made without words; a beck.

Beckon :: Beckon (v. t.) To make a significant sign to; hence, to summon, as by a motion of the hand..

Beck :: Beck (v. i.) To nod, or make a sign with the head or hand..

Braize :: Braize (n.) A European marine fish (Pagrus vulgaris) allied to the American scup; the becker. The name is sometimes applied to the related species.

Canterbury :: Canterbury (n.) A city in England, giving its name various articles. It is the seat of the Archbishop of Canterbury (primate of all England), and contains the shrine of Thomas a Becket, to which pilgrimages were formerly made..

Waft :: Waft (v. t.) To give notice to by waving something; to wave the hand to; to beckon.

Becker :: Becker (n.) A European fish (Pagellus centrodontus); the sea bream or braise.

Beck :: Beck (n.) A small brook.

Tulipomania :: Tulipomania (n.) A violent passion for the acquisition or cultivation of tulips; -- a word said by Beckman to have been coined by Menage.

Beckoned :: Beckoned (imp. & p. p.) of Becko.

Wave :: Wave (v. t.) To call attention to, or give a direction or command to, by a waving motion, as of the hand; to signify by waving; to beckon; to signal; to indicate..

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