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Rope :: Rope (v. t.) To prevent from winning (as a horse), by pulling or curbing..

Death :: Death (v. i.) Personified: The destroyer of life, -- conventionally represented as a skeleton with a scythe..

Menstruum :: Menstruum (n.) Any substance which dissolves a solid body; a solvent.

Improbability :: Improbability (n.) The quality or state of being improbable; unlikelihood; also, that which is improbable; an improbable event or result..

Plimsoll''s Mark :: Plimsoll's mark () A mark conspicuously painted on the port side of all British sea-going merchant vessels, to indicate the limit of submergence allowed by law; -- so called from Samuel Plimsoll, by whose efforts the act of Parliament to prevent overloading was procured..

Dorsiventral :: Dorsiventral (a.) Having distinct upper and lower surfaces, as most common leaves. The leaves of the iris are not dorsiventral..

Pad :: Pad (n.) A stuffed guard or protection; esp., one worn on the legs of horses to prevent bruising..

Si :: Si () A syllable applied, in solmization, to the note B; more recently, to the seventh tone of any major diatonic scale. It was added to Guido's scale by Le Maire about the end of the 17th century..

Run :: Run (v. i.) To put at hazard; to venture; to risk.

Cycle :: Cycle (n.) An interval of time in which a certain succession of events or phenomena is completed, and then returns again and again, uniformly and continually in the same order; a periodical space of time marked by the recurrence of something peculiar; as, the cycle of the seasons, or of the year..

Luddite :: Luddite (n.) One of a number of riotous persons in England, who for six years (1811-17) tried to prevent the use of labor-saving machinery by breaking it, burning factories, etc.; -- so called from Ned Lud, a half-witted man who some years previously had broken stocking frames..

Start :: Start (v. t.) To bring onto being or into view; to originate; to invent.

Insolvent :: Insolvent (n.) One who is insolvent; as insolvent debtor; -- in England, before 1861, especially applied to persons not traders..

Levee :: Levee (n.) An embankment to prevent inundation; as, the levees along the Mississippi; sometimes, the steep bank of a river..

Intrigue :: Intrigue (v. i.) The plot or romance; a complicated scheme of designs, actions, and events..

Upcast :: Upcast (n.) The ventilating shaft of a mine out of which the air passes after having circulated through the mine; -- distinguished from the downcast. Called also upcast pit, and upcast shaft..

Ventage :: Ventage (n.) A small hole, as the stop in a flute; a vent..

Solvent :: Solvent (n.) That which resolves; as, a solvent of mystery..

Thalamus :: Thalamus (n.) A mass of nervous matter on either side of the third ventricle of the brain; -- called also optic thalamus.

Design :: Design (n.) The realization of an inventive or decorative plan; esp., a work of decorative art considered as a new creation; conception or plan shown in completed work; as, this carved panel is a fine design, or of a fine design..

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