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Pinchbeck :: Pinchbeck (a.) Made of pinchbeck; sham; cheap; spurious; unreal.

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

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..

Becking :: Becking (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Bec.

Beck :: Beck (n.) A vat. See Back.

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

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

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

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

Becket :: Becket (n.) A small grommet, or a ring or loop of rope / metal for holding things in position, as spars, ropes, etc.; also a bracket, a pocket, or a handle made of rope..

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 small brook.

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.

Thimbleweed :: Thimbleweed (n.) Any plant of the composite genus Rudbeckia, coarse herbs somewhat resembling the sunflower; -- so called from their conical receptacles..

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

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

Beckoning :: Beckoning (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Becko.

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..

Pinchbeck :: Pinchbeck (n.) An alloy of copper and zinc, resembling gold; a yellow metal, composed of about three ounces of zinc to a pound of copper. It is much used as an imitation of gold in the manufacture of cheap jewelry..

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

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