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Underhung :: Underhung (a.) Resting on a track at the bottom, instead of being suspended; -- said of a sliding door..

Behalf :: Behalf (n.) Advantage; favor; stead; benefit; interest; profit; support; defense; vindication.

Place :: Place (n.) Vacated or relinquished space; room; stead (the departure or removal of another being or thing being implied).

Directory :: Directory (n.) A collection or body of directions, rules, or ordinances; esp., a book of directions for the conduct of worship; as, the Directory used by the nonconformists instead of the Prayer Book..

Variable :: Variable (a.) Liable to vary; too susceptible of change; mutable; fickle; unsteady; inconstant; as, the affections of men are variable; passions are variable..

Shamble :: Shamble (v. i.) To walk awkwardly and unsteadily, as if the knees were weak; to shuffle along..

Distemper :: Distemper (v. t.) A preparation of opaque or body colors, in which the pigments are tempered or diluted with weak glue or size (cf. Tempera) instead of oil, usually for scene painting, or for walls and ceilings of rooms..

Tringle :: Tringle (n.) A curtain rod for a bedstead.

Giddy :: Giddy (v. t.) To make dizzy or unsteady.

To-name :: To-name (n.) A name added, for the sake of distinction, to one's surname, or used instead of it..

Sterquilinous :: Stern-wheeler (n.) A steamboat having a stern wheel instead of side wheels.

Cabinetmaker :: Cabinetmaker (n.) One whose occupation is to make cabinets or other choice articles of household furniture, as tables, bedsteads, bureaus, etc..

Borough-english :: Borough-English (n.) A custom, as in some ancient boroughs, by which lands and tenements descend to the youngest son, instead of the eldest; or, if the owner have no issue, to the youngest brother..

Homesteader :: Homesteader (n.) One who has entered upon a portion of the public land with the purpose of acquiring ownership of it under provisions of the homestead law, so called; one who has acquired a homestead in this manner..

Soil :: Soil (v. t.) To feed, as cattle or horses, in the barn or an inclosure, with fresh grass or green food cut for them, instead of sending them out to pasture; hence (such food having the effect of purging them), to purge by feeding on green food; as, to soil a horse..

Glimmer :: Glimmer (n.) A faint, unsteady light; feeble, scattered rays of light; also, a gleam..

Handfast :: Handfast (n.) Strong; steadfast.

Nerve :: Nerve (n.) Physical force or steadiness; muscular power and control; constitutional vigor.

Constancy :: Constancy (n.) Fixedness or firmness of mind; persevering resolution; especially, firmness of mind under sufferings, steadiness in attachments, or perseverance in enterprise; stability; fidelity..

Twibil :: Twibil (n.) A kind of mattock, or ax; esp., a tool like a pickax, but having, instead of the points, flat terminations, one of which is parallel to the handle, the other perpendicular to it..

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