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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..

Translatable :: Translatable (a.) Capable of being translated, or rendered into another language..

Grapholite :: Grapholite (n.) Any species of slate suitable to be written on.

Shiver-spar :: Shiver-spar (n.) A variety of calcite, so called from its slaty structure; -- called also slate spar..

Transdialect :: Transdialect (v. t.) To change or translate from one dialect into another.

Marbleize :: Marbleize (v. t.) To stain or grain in imitation of marble; to cover with a surface resembling marble; as, to marbleize slate, wood, or iron..

Pencil :: Pencil (n.) A slender cylinder or strip of black lead, colored chalk, slate etc., or such a cylinder or strip inserted in a small wooden rod intended to be pointed, or in a case, which forms a handle, -- used for drawing or writing. See Graphite..

Do :: Do (v. t. / auxiliary) To put or bring into a form, state, or condition, especially in the phrases, to do death, to put to death; to slay; to do away (often do away with), to put away; to remove; to do on, to put on; to don; to do off, to take off, as dress; to doff; to do into, to put into the form of; to translate or transform into, as a text..

Slate :: Slate (v. t.) A tablet for writing upon.

Metempsychose :: Metempsychose (v. t.) To translate or transfer, as the soul, from one body to another..

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

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

Original :: Original (a.) Not copied, imitated, or translated; new; fresh; genuine; as, an original thought; an original process; the original text of Scripture..

Convert :: Convert (v. t.) To turn into another language; to translate.

Slate-color :: Slate-color () A dark bluish gray color.

Argillite :: Argillite (n.) Argillaceous schist or slate; clay slate. Its colors is bluish or blackish gray, sometimes greenish gray, brownish red, etc..

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

Translate :: Translate (v. i.) To make a translation; to be engaged in translation.

Interpret :: Interpret (v. t.) To explain or tell the meaning of; to expound; to translate orally into intelligible or familiar language or terms; to decipher; to define; -- applied esp. to language, but also to dreams, signs, conduct, mysteries, etc.; as, to interpret the Hebrew language to an Englishman; to interpret an Indian speech..

Englishable :: Englishable (a.) Capable of being translated into, or expressed in, English..

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