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Pyrrhic :: Pyrrhic (n.) A foot consisting of two short syllables.

Sclerenchyma :: Sclerenchyma (n.) Vegetable tissue composed of short cells with thickened or hardened walls, as in nutshells and the gritty parts of a pear. See Sclerotic..

Balloon :: Balloon (n.) A round vessel, usually with a short neck, to hold or receive whatever is distilled; a glass vessel of a spherical form..

Puffin :: Puffin (n.) An arctic sea bird Fratercula arctica) allied to the auks, and having a short, thick, swollen beak, whence the name; -- called also bottle nose, cockandy, coulterneb, marrot, mormon, pope, and sea parrot..

Skean :: Skean (n.) A knife or short dagger, esp. that in use among the Highlanders of Scotland. [Variously spelt.].

Thumb :: Thumb (n.) The short, thick first digit of the human hand, differing from the other fingers in having but two phalanges; the pollex. See Pollex..

Operetta :: Operetta (n.) A short, light, musical drama..

Sculler :: Sculler (n.) A boat rowed by one man with two sculls, or short oars..

Abbreviator :: Abbreviator (n.) One of a college of seventy-two officers of the papal court whose duty is to make a short minute of a decision on a petition, or reply of the pope to a letter, and afterwards expand the minute into official form..

Zamouse :: Zamouse (n.) A West African buffalo (Bubalus brachyceros) having short horns depressed at the base, and large ears fringed internally with three rows of long hairs. It is destitute of a dewlap. Called also short-horned buffalo, and bush cow..

Wedge-tailed :: Wedge-tailed (a.) Having a tail which has the middle pair of feathers longest, the rest successively and decidedly shorter, and all more or less attenuate; -- said of certain birds. See Illust. of Wood hoopoe, under Wood..

Illness :: Illness (n.) Disease; indisposition; malady; disorder of health; sickness; as, a short or a severe illness..

L :: L (n.) A short right-angled pipe fitting, used in connecting two pipes at right angles..

Ritornello :: Ritornello (n.) A short intermediate symphony, or instrumental passage, in the course of a vocal piece; an interlude..

Show :: Show (n.) A discharge, from the vagina, of mucus streaked with blood, occuring a short time before labor..

Hoary :: Hoary (a.) Covered with short, dense, grayish white hairs; canescent..

Pygmy :: Pygmy (n.) Hence, a short, insignificant person; a dwarf..

Amphimacer :: Amphimacer (n.) A foot of three syllables, the middle one short and the others long, as in cast/tas..

Bob :: Bob (n.) To cut short; as, to bob the hair, or a horse's tail..

Tub :: Tub (n.) An open wooden vessel formed with staves, bottom, and hoops; a kind of short cask, half barrel, or firkin, usually with but one head, -- used for various purposes..

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