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Restitution :: Restitution (v.) That which is offered or given in return for what has been lost, injured, or destroved; compensation..

Overturn :: Overturn (v. t.) To overpower; to conquer.

Cleat :: Cleat (n.) A device made of wood or metal, having two arms, around which turns may be taken with a line or rope so as to hold securely and yet be readily released. It is bolted by the middle to a deck or mast, etc., or it may be lashed to a rope..

Indent :: Indent (v. i.) To crook or turn; to wind in and out; to zigzag.

Flexure :: Flexure (n.) A turn; a bend; a fold; a curve.

Quintan :: Quintan (n.) An intermittent fever which returns every fifth day, reckoning inclusively, or in which the intermission lasts three days..

Rebate :: Rebate (v. t.) To beat to obtuseness; to deprive of keenness; to blunt; to turn back the point of, as a lance used for exercise..

Barwood :: Barwood (n.) A red wood of a leguminous tree (Baphia nitida), from Angola and the Gaboon in Africa. It is used as a dyewood, and also for ramrods, violin bows and turner's work..

Ptarmigan :: Ptarmigan (n.) Any grouse of the genus Lagopus, of which numerous species are known. The feet are completely feathered. Most of the species are brown in summer, but turn white, or nearly white, in winter..

Nocturnal :: Nocturnal (n.) An instrument formerly used for taking the altitude of the stars, etc., at sea..

Tiller :: Tiller (n.) A lever of wood or metal fitted to the rudder head and used for turning side to side in steering. In small boats hand power is used; in large vessels, the tiller is moved by means of mechanical appliances. See Illust. of Rudder. Cf. 2d Helm, 1..

Vein :: Vein (n.) Peculiar temper or temperament; tendency or turn of mind; a particular disposition or cast of genius; humor; strain; quality; also, manner of speech or action; as, a rich vein of humor; a satirical vein..

Anfractuosity :: Anfractuosity (n.) A state of being anfractuous, or full of windings and turnings; sinuosity..

Quartan :: Quartan (n.) An intermittent fever which returns every fourth day, reckoning inclusively, that is, one in which the interval between paroxysms is two days..

Turn-out :: Turn-out (n.) A short side track on a railroad, which may be occupied by one train while another is passing on a main track; a shunt; a siding; a switch..

Anisodactylous :: Anisodactylous (a.) Characterized by unequal toes, three turned forward and one backward, as in most passerine birds..

Chapel :: Chapel (v. t.) To cause (a ship taken aback in a light breeze) so to turn or make a circuit as to recover, without bracing the yards, the same tack on which she had been sailing..

Snub-nosed :: Snub-nosed (a.) Having a short, flat nose, slightly turned up; as, the snub-nosed eel..

Over :: Over (adv.) In a manner to bring the under side to or towards the top; as, to turn (one's self) over; to roll a stone over; to turn over the leaves; to tip over a cart..

Retroflexed :: Retroflexed (a.) Reflexed; bent or turned abruptly backward.

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