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Sea Fowl :: Sea fowl () Any bird which habitually frequents the sea, as an auk, gannet, gull, tern, or petrel; also, all such birds, collectively..

Lettern :: Lettern (n.) See Lecturn.

Exoskeleton :: Exoskeleton (n.) The hardened parts of the external integument of an animal, including hair, feathers, nails, horns, scales, etc.,as well as the armor of armadillos and many reptiles, and the shells or hardened integument of numerous invertebrates; external skeleton; dermoskeleton..

Cittern :: Cittern (n.) An instrument shaped like a lute, but strung with wire and played with a quill or plectrum..

Spontaneity :: Spontaneity (n.) The quality or state of being spontaneous, or acting from native feeling, proneness, or temperament, without constraint or external force..

Matriarch :: Matriarch (n.) The mother and ruler of a family or of her descendants; a ruler by maternal right.

Abaft :: Abaft (prep.) Behind; toward the stern from; as, abaft the wheelhouse..

Sea-bar :: Sea-bar (n.) A tern.

Vary :: Vary (v. t.) To change to something else; to transmute; to exchange; to alternate.

Traipse :: Traipse (v. i.) To walk or run about in a slatternly, careless, or thoughtless manner..

Orography :: Orography (n.) That branch of science which treats of mountains and mountain systems; orology; as, the orography of Western Europe..

Sterner :: Sterned (a.) Having a stern of a particular shape; -- used in composition; as, square-sterned..

Loam :: Loam (n.) A mixture of sand, clay, and other materials, used in making molds for large castings, often without a pattern..

Sternutatory :: Sternutative (a.) Having the quality of provoking to sneeze.

Anthophore :: Anthophore (n.) The stipe when developed into an internode between calyx and corolla, as in the Pink family..

Pattern :: Pattern (n.) Anything cut or formed to serve as a guide to cutting or forming objects; as, a dressmaker's pattern..

Sternage :: Stern (a.) Being in the stern, or being astern; as, the stern davits..

Loof :: Loof (n.) The part of a ship's side where the planking begins to curve toward bow and stern.

Extroitive :: Extroitive (a.) Seeking or going out after external objects.

Cayugas :: Cayugas (n. pl.) A tribe of Indians formerly inhabiting western New-York, forming part of the confederacy called the Five Nations..

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