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Ribbed :: Ribbed (a.) Intercalated with slate; -- said of a seam of coal.

Oilstone :: Oilstone (n.) A variety of hone slate, or whetstone, used for whetting tools when lubricated with oil..

Slate :: Slate (v. t.) A prepared piece of such stone.

Sea Wood Louse :: Sea wood louse () A sea slater.

Interpreter :: Interpreter (n.) One who or that which interprets, explains, or expounds; a translator; especially, a person who translates orally between two parties..

Translate :: Translate (v. t.) To cause to remove from one part of the body to another; as, to translate a disease..

Translate :: Translate (v. t.) To bear, carry, or remove, from one place to another; to transfer; as, to translate a tree..

Decipher :: Decipher (v. t.) To translate from secret characters or ciphers into intelligible terms; as, to decipher a letter written in secret characters..

Basilica :: Basilica (n.) A digest of the laws of Justinian, translated from the original Latin into Greek, by order of Basil I., in the ninth century..

Alum Shale :: Alum shale () A variety of shale or clay slate, containing iron pyrites, the decomposition of which leads to the formation of alum, which often effloresces on the rock..

Flashing :: Flashing (n.) Pieces of metal, built into the joints of a wall, so as to lap over the edge of the gutters or to cover the edge of the roofing; also, similar pieces used to cover the valleys of roofs of slate, shingles, or the like. By extension, the metal covering of ridges and hips of roofs; also, in the United States, the protecting of angles and breaks in walls of frame houses with waterproof material, tarred paper, or the like. Cf. Filleting..

Heal :: Heal (v. t.) To cover, as a roof, with tiles, slate, lead, or the like..

Translation :: Translation (n.) The act of translating, removing, or transferring; removal; also, the state of being translated or removed; as, the translation of Enoch; the translation of a bishop..

Legislated :: Legislated (imp. & p. p.) of Legislat.

Fault :: Fault (n.) In coal seams, coal rendered worthless by impurities in the seam; as, slate fault, dirt fault, etc..

Turn :: Turn (v. t.) To translate; to construe; as, to turn the Iliad..

Log :: Log (n.) Hence: The record of the rate of ship's speed or of her daily progress; also, the full nautical record of a ship's cruise or voyage; a log slate; a log book..

Misrender :: Misrender (v. t.) To render wrongly; to translate or recite wrongly.

Overlap :: Overlap (n.) The lapping of one thing over another; as, an overlap of six inches; an overlap of a slate on a roof..

Gauge :: Gauge (n.) That part of a shingle, slate, or tile, which is exposed to the weather, when laid; also, one course of such shingles, slates, or tiles..

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