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Capitulum :: Capitulum (n.) A thick head of flowers on a very short axis, as a clover top, or a dandelion; a composite flower. A capitulum may be either globular or flat..

Undercoat :: Undercoat (n.) A growth of short hair or fur partially concealed by a longer growth; as, a dog's undercoat..

Muff :: Muff (n.) A short hollow cylinder surrounding an object, as a pipe..

Tachydidaxy :: Tachydidaxy (n.) A short or rapid method of instructing.

Brachypinacoid :: Brachypinacoid (n.) A plane of an orthorhombic crystal which is parallel both to the vertical axis and to the shorter lateral (brachydiagonal) axis.

Pouch :: Pouch (n.) A silicle, or short pod, as of the shepherd's purse..

Hare :: Hare (n.) A rodent of the genus Lepus, having long hind legs, a short tail, and a divided upper lip. It is a timid animal, moves swiftly by leaps, and is remarkable for its fecundity..

Puncheon :: Puncheon (n.) A short, upright piece of timber in framing; a short post; an intermediate stud..

Logographer :: Logographer (n.) A chronicler; one who writes history in a condensed manner with short simple sentences.

Bristle :: Bristle (n.) A short, stiff, coarse hair, as on the back of swine..

Skipper :: Skipper (n.) Any one of numerous species of small butterflies of the family Hesperiadae; -- so called from their peculiar short, jerking flight..

Logography :: Logography (n.) A mode of reporting speeches without using shorthand, -- a number of reporters, each in succession, taking down three or four words..

Dactyl :: Dactyl (n.) A poetical foot of three sylables (-- ~ ~), one long followed by two short, or one accented followed by two unaccented; as, L. tegm/n/, E. mer6ciful; -- so called from the similarity of its arrangement to that of the joints of a finger..

Snag :: Snag (n.) A stump or base of a branch that has been lopped off; a short branch, or a sharp or rough branch; a knot; a protuberance..

Pin :: Pin (n.) A short shaft, sometimes forming a bolt, a part of which serves as a journal..

Swift :: Swift (v. i.) Of short continuance; passing away quickly.

Toddle :: Toddle (v. i.) To walk with short, tottering steps, as a child..

Monkeytail :: Monkeytail (n.) A short, round iron bar or lever used in naval gunnery..

Axe :: Axe (n.) A tool or instrument of steel, or of iron with a steel edge or blade, for felling trees, chopping and splitting wood, hewing timber, etc. It is wielded by a wooden helve or handle, so fixed in a socket or eye as to be in the same plane with the blade. The broadax, or carpenter's ax, is an ax for hewing timber, made heavier than the chopping ax, and with a broader and thinner blade and a shorter handle..

Studded :: Stud (n.) An iron brace across the shorter diameter of the link of a chain cable.

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