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Camel :: Camel (n.) A water-tight structure (as a large box or boxes) used to assist a vessel in passing over a shoal or bar or in navigating shallow water. By admitting water, the camel or camels may be sunk and attached beneath or at the sides of a vessel, and when the water is pumped out the vessel is lifted..

Scatter-brain :: Scatter-brain (n.) A giddy or thoughtless person; one incapable of concentration or attention.

Counter-compony :: Counter-compony (a.) See Compony.

Aquarius :: Aquarius (n.) The Water-bearer; the eleventh sign in the zodiac, which the sun enters about the 20th of January; -- so called from the rains which prevail at that season in Italy and the East..

Start :: Start (v. i.) The curved or inclined front and bottom of a water-wheel bucket.

Breastrail :: Breastrail (n.) The upper rail of any parapet of ordinary height, as of a balcony; the railing of a quarter-deck, etc..

Countre- :: Countre- () Same as prefix Counter-.

Logged :: Logged (a.) Made slow and heavy in movement; water-logged.

Winter-rig :: Winter-rig (v. t.) To fallow or till in winter.

Water-bearer :: Water-bearer (n.) The constellation Aquarius.

Enter- :: Enter- () A prefix signifying between, among, part..

Daughters-in-law :: Daughters-in-law (pl. ) of Daughter-in-la.

Scatter-brained :: Scatter-brained (a.) Giddy; thoughtless.

Water-soak :: Water-soak (v. t.) To soak water; to fill the interstices of with water.

Centreboard :: Centreboard (n.) A movable or sliding keel formed of a broad board or slab of wood or metal which may be raised into a water-tight case amidships, when in shallow water, or may be lowered to increase the area of lateral resistance and prevent leeway when the vessel is beating to windward. It is used in vessels of all sizes along the coast of the United States.

Water-ret :: Water-ret (v. t.) To ret, or rot, in water, as flax; to water-rot..

Water-retted :: Water-retted (imp. & p. p.) of Water-re.

Midshipman :: Midshipman (n.) Formerly, a kind of naval cadet, in a ship of war, whose business was to carry orders, messages, reports, etc., between the officers of the quarter-deck and those of the forecastle, and render other services as required..

Preter- :: Preter- () A prefix signifying past, by, beyond, more than; as, preter- mission, a permitting to go by; preternatural, beyond or more than is natural..

Alto :: Alto (n.) Formerly the part sung by the highest male, or counter-tenor, voices; now the part sung by the lowest female, or contralto, voices, between in tenor and soprano. In instrumental music it now signifies the tenor..

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