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Trunk :: Trunk (n.) A flume or sluice in which ores are separated from the slimes in which they are contained.

Bust :: Bust (n.) The portion of the human figure included between the head and waist, whether in statuary or in the person; the chest or thorax; the upper part of the trunk of the body..

But :: But (v. t.) The thickest and stoutest part of tanned oxhides, used for soles of boots, harness, trunks..

Hornbug :: Hornbug (n.) A large nocturnal beetle of the genus Lucanus (as L. capreolus, and L. dama), having long, curved upper jaws, resembling a sickle. The grubs are found in the trunks of old trees..

Valance :: Valance (n.) The drooping edging of the lid of a trunk. which covers the joint when the lid is closed.

Tray :: Tray (n.) A shallow box, generally without a top, often used within a chest, trunk, box, etc., as a removable receptacle for small or light articles..

Trunk :: Trunk (n.) That part of a pilaster which is between the base and the capital, corresponding to the shaft of a column..

Trunk :: Trunk (n.) A box or chest usually covered with leather, metal, or cloth, or sometimes made of leather, hide, or metal, for containing clothes or other goods; especially, one used to convey the effects of a traveler..

Body :: Body (n.) The trunk, or main part, of a person or animal, as distinguished from the limbs and head; the main, central, or principal part, as of a tree, army, country, etc..

Canoe :: Canoe (n.) A boat used by rude nations, formed of trunk of a tree, excavated, by cutting of burning, into a suitable shape. It is propelled by a paddle or paddles, or sometimes by sail, and has no rudder..

Spica :: Spica (n.) A kind of bandage passing, by successive turns and crosses, from an extremity to the trunk; -- so called from its resemblance to a spike of a barley..

Myotome :: Myotome (n.) A muscular segment; one of the zones into which the muscles of the trunk, especially in fishes, are divided; a myocomma..

Thorax :: Thorax (n.) The part of the trunk between the neck and the abdomen, containing that part of the body cavity the walls of which are supported by the dorsal vertebrae, the ribs, and the sternum, and which the heart and lungs are situated; the chest..

Truncus :: Truncus (n.) The thorax of an insect. See Trunk, n., 5..

Trunk :: Trunk (n.) The proboscis of an elephant.

Bard :: Bard (n.) The exterior covering of the trunk and branches of a tree; the rind.

Grass Tree :: Grass tree () An Australian plant of the genus Xanthorrhoea, having a thick trunk crowned with a dense tuft of pendulous, grasslike leaves, from the center of which arises a long stem, bearing at its summit a dense flower spike looking somewhat like a large cat-tail. These plants are often called blackboys from the large trunks denuded and blackened by fire. They yield two kinds of fragrant resin, called Botany-bay gum, and Gum Acaroides..

Trunk :: Trunk (v. t.) To extract (ores) from the slimes in which they are contained, by means of a trunk. See Trunk, n., 9..

Induviate :: Induviate (a.) Covered with induviae, as the upper part of the trunk of a palm tree..

Cocoa Palm :: Cocoa palm () A palm tree producing the cocoanut (Cocos nucifera). It grows in nearly all tropical countries, attaining a height of sixty or eighty feet. The trunk is without branches, and has a tuft of leaves at the top, each being fifteen or twenty feet in length, and at the base of these the nuts hang in clusters; the cocoanut tree..

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