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Illuminati :: Illuminati (v. t.) Persons in the early church who had received baptism; in which ceremony a lighted taper was given them, as a symbol of the spiritual illumination they has received by that sacrament..

Obelisk :: Obelisk (n.) An upright, four-sided pillar, gradually tapering as it rises, and terminating in a pyramid called pyramidion. It is ordinarily monolithic. Egyptian obelisks are commonly covered with hieroglyphic writing from top to bottom..

Vestlet :: Vestlet (n.) Any one of several species of actinians belonging to the genus Cerianthus. These animals have a long, smooth body tapering to the base, and two separate circles of tentacles around the mouth. They form a tough, flexible, feltlike tube with a smooth internal lining, in which they dwell, whence the name..

Acuminate :: Acuminate (a.) Tapering to a point; pointed; as, acuminate leaves, teeth, etc..

Pin-tailed :: Pin-tailed (a.) Having a tapered tail, with the middle feathers longest; -- said of birds..

Principal :: Principal (n.) One of turrets or pinnacles of waxwork and tapers with which the posts and center of a funeral hearse were formerly crowned.

Club :: Club (n.) A heavy staff of wood, usually tapering, and wielded the hand; a weapon; a cudgel..

Fid :: Fid (n.) A pin of hard wood, tapering to a point, used to open the strands of a rope in splicing..

Archaeopteryx :: Archaeopteryx (n.) A fossil bird, of the Jurassic period, remarkable for having a long tapering tail of many vertebrae with feathers along each side, and jaws armed with teeth, with other reptilian characteristics..

Conical :: Conical (a.) Having the form of, or resembling, a geometrical cone; round and tapering to a point, or gradually lessening in circumference; as, a conic or conical figure; a conical vessel..

Tapered :: Tapered (a.) Lighted with a taper or tapers; as, a tapered choir..

Wany :: Wany (a.) Waning or diminished in some parts; not of uniform size throughout; -- said especially of sawed boards or timber when tapering or uneven, from being cut too near the outside of the log..

Taperness :: Taperness (n.) The quality or state of being taper; tapering form; taper.

Acumination :: Acumination (n.) A sharpening; termination in a sharp point; a tapering point.

Spinet :: Spinescent (a.) Becoming hard and thorny; tapering gradually to a rigid, leafless point; armed with spines..

Pintail :: Pintail (n.) A northern duck (Dafila acuta), native of both continents. The adult male has a long, tapering tail. Called also gray duck, piketail, piket-tail, spike-tail, split-tail, springtail, sea pheasant, and gray widgeon..

Stal :: Staktometer (n.) A drop measurer; a glass tube tapering to a small orifice at the point, and having a bulb in the middle, used for finding the number of drops in equal quantities of different liquids. See Pipette..

Taper :: Taper (v. i.) To become gradually smaller toward one end; as, a sugar loaf tapers toward one end..

Rat-tailed :: Rat-tailed (a.) Having a long, tapering tail like that of a rat..

Yard :: Yard (v. i.) A long piece of timber, nearly cylindrical, tapering toward the ends, and designed to support and extend a square sail. A yard is usually hung by the center to the mast. See Illust. of Ship..

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