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Socket :: Socket (n.) An opening into which anything is fitted; any hollow thing or place which receives and holds something else; as, the sockets of the teeth..

Sock :: Sock (n.) A knit or woven covering for the foot and lower leg; a stocking with a short leg.

Extract :: Extract (v. t.) To draw out or forth; to pull out; to remove forcibly from a fixed position, as by traction or suction, etc.; as, to extract a tooth from its socket, a stump from the earth, a splinter from the finger..

Axe :: Axe (n.) A tool or instrument of steel, or of iron with a steel edge or blade, for felling trees, chopping and splitting wood, hewing timber, etc. It is wielded by a wooden helve or handle, so fixed in a socket or eye as to be in the same plane with the blade. The broadax, or carpenter's ax, is an ax for hewing timber, made heavier than the chopping ax, and with a broader and thinner blade and a shorter handle..

Sockless :: Sockless (a.) Destitute of socks or shoes.

Glenoid :: Glenoid (a.) Having the form of a smooth and shallow depression; socketlike; -- applied to several articular surfaces of bone; as, the glenoid cavity, or fossa, of the scapula, in which the head of the humerus articulates..

Tussac Grass :: Tussac grass () Tussock grass.

Drumhead :: Drumhead (n.) The top of a capstan which is pierced with sockets for levers used in turning it. See Illust. of Capstan.

Tussuck :: Tussuck (n.) See Tussock.

Tussock :: Tussock (n.) A caterpillar of any one of numerous species of bombycid moths. The body of these caterpillars is covered with hairs which form long tufts or brushes. Some species are very injurious to shade and fruit trees. Called also tussock caterpillar. See Orgyia.

Ink :: Ink (n.) The step, or socket, in which the lower end of a millstone spindle runs..

Dislocate :: Dislocate (v. t.) To displace; to put out of its proper place. Especially, of a bone: To remove from its normal connections with a neighboring bone; to put out of joint; to move from its socket; to disjoint; as, to dislocate your bones..

Bast :: Bast (n.) A thick mat or hassock. See 2d Bass, 2..

Cassock :: Cassock (n.) A garment resembling a long frock coat worn by the clergy of certain churches when officiating, and by others as the usually outer garment..

Ginglymodi :: Ginglymodi (n.) An order of ganoid fishes, including the modern gar pikes and many allied fossil forms. They have rhombic, ganoid scales, a heterocercal tail, paired fins without an axis, fulcra on the fins, and a bony skeleton, with the vertebrae convex in front and concave behind, forming a ball and socket joint. See Ganoidel..

Bridgetree :: Bridgetree (n.) The beam which supports the spindle socket of the runner in a grinding mill.

Saucer :: Saucer (n.) A shallow socket for the pivot of a capstan.

Sphere :: Sphere (n.) An orbit, as of a star; a socket..

Alveolar :: Alveolar (a.) Of, pertaining to, or resembling, alveoli or little cells, sacs, or sockets..

Collet :: Collet (n.) A small metal ring; a small collar fastened on an arbor; as, the collet on the balance arbor of a watch; a small socket on a stem, for holding a drill..

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