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Puteal :: Puteal (n.) An inclosure surrounding a well to prevent persons from falling into it; a well curb.

Partner :: Partner (n.) A framework of heavy timber surrounding an opening in a deck, to strengthen it for the support of a mast, pump, capstan, or the like..

Surround :: Surrounding (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Surroun.

Caravansary :: Caravansary (n.) A kind of inn, in the East, where caravans rest at night, being a large, rude, unfurnished building, surrounding a court..

Water Bath :: Water bath () A device for regulating the temperature of anything subjected to heat, by surrounding the vessel containing it with another vessel containing water which can be kept at a desired temperature; also, a vessel designed for this purpose..

Jacket :: "Jacket (n.) In ordnance, a strengthening band surrounding and reenforcing the tube in which the charge is fired..

Doorcase :: Doorcase (n.) The surrounding frame into which a door shuts.

Halo :: Halo (n.) A circle of light; especially, the bright ring represented in painting as surrounding the heads of saints and other holy persons; a glory; a nimbus..

Periodontal :: Periodontal (a.) Surrounding the teeth.

Outer :: Outer (n.) The part of a target which is beyond the circles surrounding the bull's-eye.

Perichaeth :: Perichaeth (n.) The leafy involucre surrounding the fruit stalk of mosses; perichaetium; perichete.

Aitchbone :: Aitchbone (n.) The bone of the rump; also, the cut of beef surrounding this bone..

Cementation :: Cementation (n.) A process which consists in surrounding a solid body with the powder of other substances, and heating the whole to a degree not sufficient to cause fusion, the physical properties of the body being changed by chemical combination with powder; thus iron becomes steel by cementation with charcoal, and green glass becomes porcelain by cementation with sand..

Diapedesis :: Diapedesis (n.) The passage of the corpuscular elements of the blood from the blood vessels into the surrounding tissues, without rupture of the walls of the blood vessels..

Halation :: Halation (n.) An appearance as of a halo of light, surrounding the edges of dark objects in a photographic picture..

Hexicology :: Hexicology (n.) The science which treats of the complex relations of living creatures to other organisms, and to their surrounding conditions generally..

Periotic :: Periotic (a.) Surrounding, or pertaining to the region surrounding, the internal ear; as, the periotic capsule..

Hill :: Hill (n.) A natural elevation of land, or a mass of earth rising above the common level of the surrounding land; an eminence less than a mountain..

Refrigeratory :: Refrigeratory (n.) In distillation, a vessel filled with cold water, surrounding the worm, the vapor in which is thereby condensed..

Nucleus :: Nucleus (n.) A body, usually spheroidal, in a cell or a protozoan, distinguished from the surrounding protoplasm by a difference in refrangibility and in behavior towards chemical reagents. It is more or less protoplasmic, and consists of a clear fluid (achromatin) through which extends a network of fibers (chromatin) in which may be suspended a second rounded body, the nucleolus (see Nucleoplasm). See Cell division, under Division..

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