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Snakestone :: Snakestone (n.) A kind of hone slate or whetstone obtained in Scotland.

Schistaceous :: Schistaceous (a.) Of a slate color.

Hellier :: Hellier (v. t.) One who heles or covers; hence, a tiler, slater, or thatcher..

Keramographic :: Keramographic (a.) Suitable to be written upon; capable of being written upon, as a slate; -- said especially of a certain kind of globe..

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

Paraphrase :: Paraphrase (v. t.) To express, interpret, or translate with latitude; to give the meaning of a passage in other language..

Slater :: Slater (n.) One who lays slates, or whose occupation is to slate buildings..

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

Slate :: Slate (v. t.) To cover with slate, or with a substance resembling slate; as, to slate a roof; to slate a globe..

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

Slate :: Slate (v. t.) To register (as on a slate and subject to revision), for an appointment..

Shiver :: Shiver (n.) A variety of blue slate.

Plumbaginous :: Plumbaginous (a.) Resembling plumbago; consisting of, or containing, plumbago; as, a plumbaginous slate..

Zax :: Zax (n.) A tool for trimming and puncturing roofing slates.

Slater :: Slater (n.) Any terrestrial isopod crustacean of the genus Porcellio and allied genera; a sow bug.

Slaty :: Slaty (a.) Resembling slate; having the nature, appearance, or properties, of slate; composed of thin parallel plates, capable of being separated by splitting; as, a slaty color or texture..

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..

Translate :: Translate (v. t.) To change into another form; to transform.

Travesty :: Travesty (v. t.) To translate, imitate, or represent, so as to render ridiculous or ludicrous..

Metaphrased :: Metaphrased (a.) Translated literally.

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