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Sad :: Sad (supperl.) Dull; grave; dark; somber; -- said of colors.

Vamp :: Vamp (v. t.) To provide, as a shoe, with new upper leather; hence, to piece, as any old thing, with a new part; to repair; to patch; -- often followed by up..

Hood :: Hood (n.) The hood-shaped upper petal of some flowers, as of monkshood; -- called also helmet..

Kissingcrust :: Kissingcrust (n.) The portion of the upper crust of a loaf which has touched another loaf in baking.

Aquarian :: Aquarian (n.) One of a sect of Christian in the primitive church who used water instead of wine in the Lord's Supper.

Wenlock Group :: Wenlock group () The middle subdivision of the Upper Silurian in Great Britain; -- so named from the typical locality in Shropshire.

Krait :: Krait (n.) A very venomous snake of India (Bungarus coeruleus), allied to the cobra. Its upper parts are bluish or brownish black, often with narrow white streaks; the belly is whitish..

Royal :: Royal (n.) One of the upper or distal branches of an antler, as the third and fourth tynes of the antlers of a stag..

Hyostylic :: Hyostylic (a.) Having the mandible suspended by the hyomandibular, or upper part of the hyoid arch, as in fishes, instead of directly articulated with the skull as in mammals; -- said of the skull..

Cledge :: Cledge (n.) The upper stratum of fuller's earth.

Capping Plane :: Capping plane () A plane used for working the upper surface of staircase rails.

Rudderhead :: Rudderhead (n.) The upper end of the rudderpost, to which the tiller is attached..

Cockloft :: Cockloft (n.) An upper loft; a garret; the highest room in a building.

Tegmentum :: Tegmentum (n.) A covering; -- applied especially to the bundles of longitudinal fibers in the upper part of the crura of the cerebrum.

First :: First (n.) The upper part of a duet, trio, etc., either vocal or instrumental; -- so called because it generally expresses the air, and has a preeminence in the combined effect..

Breastsummer :: Breastsummer (n.) A summer or girder extending across a building flush with, and supporting, the upper part of a front or external wall; a long lintel; a girder; -- used principally above shop windows..

Artotyrite :: Artotyrite (n.) One of a sect in the primitive church, who celebrated the Lord's Supper with bread and cheese, alleging that the first oblations of men not only of the fruit of the earth, but of their flocks. [Gen. iv. 3, 4.].

Sacrament :: Sacrament (n.) One of the solemn religious ordinances enjoined by Christ, the head of the Christian church, to be observed by his followers; hence, specifically, the eucharist; the Lord's Supper..

Waterway :: Waterway (n.) Heavy plank or timber extending fore and aft the whole length of a vessel's deck at the line of junction with the sides, forming a channel to the scuppers, which are cut through it. In iron vessels the waterway is variously constructed..

Upward :: Upward (n.) The upper part; the top.

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