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Lactose :: Lactose (n.) Sugar of milk or milk sugar; a crystalline sugar present in milk, and separable from the whey by evaporation and crystallization. It has a slightly sweet taste, is dextrorotary, and is much less soluble in water than either cane sugar or glucose. Formerly called lactin..

Slub :: Slub (n.) A roll of wool slightly twisted; a rove; -- called also slubbing.

Little :: Little (adv.) In a small quantity or degree; not much; slightly; somewhat; -- often with a preceding it.

Diapnoic :: Diapnoic (a.) Slightly increasing an insensible perspiration; mildly diaphoretic.

Tabernacle :: Tabernacle (n.) A slightly built or temporary habitation; especially, a tent..

Pace :: Pace (n.) A broad step or platform; any part of a floor slightly raised above the rest, as around an altar, or at the upper end of a hall..

Dais :: Dais (n.) A platform slightly raised above the floor of a hall or large room, giving distinction to the table and seats placed upon it for the chief guests..

Rocking-stone :: Rocking-stone (n.) A stone, often of great size and weight, resting upon another stone, and so exactly poised that it can be rocked, or slightly moved, with but little force..

Drift :: Drift (n.) A slightly tapered tool of steel for enlarging or shaping a hole in metal, by being forced or driven into or through it; a broach..

Crystal :: Crystal (n.) The material of quartz, in crystallization transparent or nearly so, and either colorless or slightly tinged with gray, or the like; -- called also rock crystal. Ornamental vessels are made of it. Cf. Smoky quartz, Pebble; also Brazilian pebble, under Brazilian..

Trifid :: Trifid (a.) Cleft to the middle, or slightly beyond the middle, into three parts; three-cleft..

Limbous :: Limbous (a.) With slightly overlapping borders; -- said of a suture.

Pulp :: Pulp (n.) A moist, slightly cohering mass, consisting of soft, undissolved animal or vegetable matter..

Slub :: Slub (v. t.) To draw out and twist slightly; -- said of slivers of wool.

Hashish :: Hashish (n.) A slightly acrid gum resin produced by the common hemp (Cannabis saltiva), of the variety Indica, when cultivated in a warm climate; also, the tops of the plant, from which the resinous product is obtained. It is narcotic, and has long been used in the East for its intoxicating effect. See Bhang, and Ganja..

Drizzle :: Drizzle (v. i.) To rain slightly in very small drops; to fall, as water from the clouds, slowly and in fine particles; as, it drizzles; drizzling drops or rain..

Slight :: Slight (adv.) Slightly.

Brown :: Brown (v. t.) To make brown by scorching slightly; as, to brown meat or flour..

Mellow :: Mellow (superl.) Warmed by liquor; slightly intoxicated.

Seersucker :: Seersucker (n.) A light fabric, originally made in the East Indies, of silk and linen, usually having alternating stripes, and a slightly craped or puckered surface; also, a cotton fabric of similar appearance..

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