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Set :: Set (a.) Established; prescribed; as, set forms of prayer..

Ball :: Ball (n.) A flaming, roundish body shot into the air; a case filled with combustibles intended to burst and give light or set fire, or to produce smoke or stench; as, a fire ball; a stink ball..

Waterboard :: Waterboard (n.) A board set up to windward in a boat, to keep out water..

Amphicome :: Amphicome (n.) A kind of figured stone, rugged and beset with eminences, anciently used in divination..

Foots :: Foots (n. pl.) The settlings of oil, molasses, etc., at the bottom of a barrel or hogshead..

Turbot :: Turbot (n.) Any one of numerous species of flounders more or less related to the true turbots, as the American plaice, or summer flounder (see Flounder), the halibut, and the diamond flounder (Hypsopsetta guttulata) of California..

Beset :: Beset (imp. & p. p.) of Bese.

Dun :: Dun (v. t. & i.) To ask or beset, as a debtor, for payment; to urge importunately..

Closet :: Closet (n.) A small room or apartment for retirement; a room for privacy.

Sperm Whale :: Sperm whale () A very large toothed whale (Physeter macrocephalus), having a head of enormous size. The upper jaw is destitute of teeth. In the upper part of the head, above the skull, there is a large cavity, or case, filled with oil and spermaceti. This whale sometimes grows to the length of more than eighty feet. It is found in the warmer parts of all the oceans. Called also cachalot, and spermaceti whale..

Inconclusive :: Inconclusive (a.) Not conclusive; leading to no conclusion; not closing or settling a point in debate, or a doubtful question; as, evidence is inconclusive when it does not exhibit the truth of a disputed case in such a manner as to satisfy the mind, and put an end to debate or doubt..

Stripe :: Stripe (n.) A pattern produced by arranging the warp threads in sets of alternating colors, or in sets presenting some other contrast of appearance..

Corselet :: Corselet (n.) Armor for the body, as, the body breastplate and backpiece taken together; -- also, used for the entire suit of the day, including breastplate and backpiece, tasset and headpiece..

Combustible :: Combustible (n.) A substance that may be set on fire, or which is liable to take fire and burn..

Pitch :: Pitch (v. i.) To light; to settle; to come to rest from flight.

Construct :: Construct (v. t.) To devise; to invent; to set in order; to arrange; as, to construct a theory of ethics..

Chaetiferous :: Chaetiferous (a.) Bearing setae.

Supersede :: Supersede (v. t.) To make void, inefficacious, or useless, by superior power, or by coming in the place of; to set aside; to render unnecessary; to suspend; to stay..

Footfall :: Footfall (n.) A setting down of the foot; a footstep; the sound of a footstep.

Setback :: Setback (n.) A backset; a countercurrent; an eddy.

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