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Short :: Short (superl.) Insufficiently provided; inadequately supplied; scantily furnished; lacking; not coming up to a resonable, or the ordinary, standard; -- usually with of; as, to be short of money..

Starboard :: Starboard (v. t.) That side of a vessel which is on the right hand of a person who stands on board facing the bow; -- opposed to larboard, or port..

Apprehend :: Apprehend (v. i.) To think, believe, or be of opinion; to understand; to suppose..

Lopper :: Lopper (v. i.) To turn sour and coagulate from too long standing, as milk..

Blockhead :: Blockhead (n.) A stupid fellow; a dolt; a person deficient in understanding.

Straggling :: Straggler (n.) Something that stands alone or by itself.

Stand :: Stand (n.) To be supported on the feet, in an erect or nearly erect position; -- opposed to lie, sit, kneel, etc..

Indefinitude :: Indefinitude (n.) Indefiniteness; vagueness; also, number or quantity not limited by our understanding, though yet finite..

Flank :: Flank (v. t.) To stand at the flank or side of; to border upon.

Soc :: Soc (n.) An exclusive privilege formerly claimed by millers of grinding all the corn used within the manor or township which the mill stands.

Backare :: Backare (interj.) Stand back! give place! -- a cant word of the Elizabethan writers, probably in ridicule of some person who pretended to a knowledge of Latin which he did not possess..

Sigla :: Sigla (n. pl.) The signs, abbreviations, letters, or characters standing for words, shorthand, etc., in ancient manuscripts, or on coins, medals, etc..

Head :: Head (n.) The seat of the intellect; the brain; the understanding; the mental faculties; as, a good head, that is, a good mind; it never entered his head, it did not occur to him; of his own head, of his own thought or will..

Misunderstander :: Misunderstander (n.) One who misunderstands.

Apiary :: Apiary (n.) A place where bees are kept; a stand or shed for bees; a beehouse.

Withal :: Withal (prep.) With; -- put after its object, at the end of sentence or clause in which it stands..

Epipedometry :: Epipedometry (n.) The mensuration of figures standing on the same base.

Private :: Private (a.) Not publicly known; not open; secret; as, a private negotiation; a private understanding..

Penetrate :: Penetrate (v. t.) To pierce into by the mind; to arrive at the inner contents or meaning of, as of a mysterious or difficult subject; to comprehend; to understand..

Point :: Point (n.) A standard unit of measure for the size of type bodies, being one twelfth of the thickness of pica type. See Point system of type, under Type..

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