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Astonishment :: Astonishment (n.) Dismay; consternation.

Abaft :: Abaft (adv.) Toward the stern; aft; as, to go abaft..

Ferula :: Ferula (n.) The imperial scepter in the Byzantine or Eastern Empire.

Ponent :: Ponent (a.) Western; occidental.

Levant :: Levant (n.) The countries washed by the eastern part of the Mediterranean and its contiguous waters.

Gallowglass :: Gallowglass (n.) A heavy-armed foot soldier from Ireland and the Western Isles in the time of Edward .

Escutcheon :: Escutcheon (n.) That part of a vessel's stern on which her name is written.

Presternum :: Presternum (n.) The anterior segment of the sternum; the manubrium.

Senecas :: Senecas (n. pl.) A tribe of Indians who formerly inhabited a part of Western New York. This tribe was the most numerous and most warlike of the Five Nations.

Metosteon :: Metosteon (n.) The postero-lateral ossification in the sternum of birds; also, the part resulting from such ossification..

Sternpost :: Sternothyroid (a.) Of or pertaining to the sternum and the thyroid cartilage.

Fat :: Fat (n.) A large tub, cistern, or vessel; a vat..

Middlings :: Middlings (n. pl.) In the southern and western parts of the United States, the portion of the hog between the ham and the shoulder; bacon; -- called also middles..

Savine :: Savine (n.) A coniferous shrub (Juniperus Sabina) of Western Asia, occasionally found also in the northern parts of the United States and in British America. It is a compact bush, with dark-colored foliage, and produces small berries having a glaucous bloom. Its bitter, acrid tops are sometimes used in medicine for gout, amenorrhoea, etc..

Johnson Grass :: "Johnson grass () A tall perennial grass (Sorghum Halepense), valuable in the Southern and Western States for pasture and hay. The rootstocks are large and juicy and are eagerly sought by swine. Called also Cuba grass, Means grass, Evergreen millet, and Arabian millet..

Rat-tail :: Rat-tail (n.) An excrescence growing from the pastern to the middle of the shank of a horse.

Mesosternal :: Mesosternal (a.) Of or pertaining to the mesosternum.

Sternutative :: Sternutation (n.) The act of sneezing.

Strake :: Strake (n.) One breadth of planks or plates forming a continuous range on the bottom or sides of a vessel, reaching from the stem to the stern; a streak..

Southeastern :: Southeastern (a.) Of or pertaining to the southeast; southeasterly.

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