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Handicap :: Handicap (n.) A race, for horses or men, or any contest of agility, strength, or skill, in which there is an allowance of time, distance, weight, or other advantage, to equalize the chances of the competitors..

Dehors :: Dehors (n.) All sorts of outworks in general, at a distance from the main works; any advanced works for protection or cover..

Booming :: Booming (a.) Advancing or increasing amid noisy excitement; as, booming prices; booming popularity..

Paravant :: Paravant (adv.) In front; publicly.

Jereed :: "Jereed (n.) A blunt javelin used by the people of the Levant, especially in mock fights..

Bargain :: Bargain (n.) A purchase; also ( when not qualified), a gainful transaction; an advantageous purchase; as, to buy a thing at a bargain..

Havana :: Havana (n.) An Havana cigar.

Vainglory :: Vainglory (n.) Excessive vanity excited by one's own performances; empty pride; undue elation of mind; vain show; boastfulness.

Attendant :: Attendant (n.) One who attends or accompanies in any character whatever, as a friend, companion, servant, agent, or suitor..

Better :: Better (a.) To give advantage to; to support; to advance the interest of.

Cyclostyle :: Cyclostyle (n.) A contrivance for producing manifold copies of writing or drawing. The writing or drawing is done with a style carrying a small wheel at the end which makes minute punctures in the paper, thus converting it into a stencil. Copies are transferred with an inked roller..

Dragoman :: Dragoman (n.) An interpreter; -- so called in the Levant and other parts of the East.

Family :: Family (v. t.) The collective body of persons who live in one house, and under one head or manager; a household, including parents, children, and servants, and, as the case may be, lodgers or boarders..

Mindful :: Mindful (a.) Bearing in mind; regardful; attentive; heedful; observant.

Advancing :: Advancing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Advanc.

Develop :: Develop (v. t.) To advance; to further; to prefect; to make to increase; to promote the growth of.

Speculate :: Speculate (v. i.) To purchase with the expectation of a contingent advance in value, and a consequent sale at a profit; -- often, in a somewhat depreciative sense, of unsound or hazardous transactions; as, to speculate in coffee, in sugar, or in bank stock..

Advance :: Advance (v. t.) To raise to a higher rank; to promote.

Slavocracy :: Slavocracy (n.) The persons or interest formerly representing slavery politically, or wielding political power for the preservation or advancement of slavery..

Gimbals :: Gimbals (n.) A contrivance for permitting a body to incline freely in all directions, or for suspending anything, as a barometer, ship's compass, chronometer, etc., so that it will remain plumb, or level, when its support is tipped, as by the rolling of a ship. It consists of a ring in which the body can turn on an axis through a diameter of the ring, while the ring itself is so pivoted to its support that it can turn about a diameter at right angles to the first..

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