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Embattlement :: Embattlement (n.) The fortifying of a building or a wall by means of battlements.

Thrust :: Thrust (n.) The force or pressure of one part of a construction against other parts; especially (Arch.), a horizontal or diagonal outward pressure, as of an arch against its abutments, or of rafters against the wall which support them..

Sea Swallow :: Sea swallow () The gannet.

Underpinning :: Underpinning (n.) That by which a building is underpinned; the material and construction used for support, introduced beneath a wall already constructed..

Gurge :: Gurge (v. t.) To swallow up.

Fives :: Fives (n. pl.) A kind of play with a ball against a wall, resembling tennis; -- so named because three fives, or fifteen, are counted to the game..

Laparotomy :: Laparotomy (n.) A cutting through the walls of the abdomen, as in the Caesarean section..

Mesorchium :: Mesorchium (n.) The fold of peritoneum which attaches the testis to the dorsal wall of the body cavity or scrotal sac.

Tooth :: Tooth (n.) One of the hard, bony appendages which are borne on the jaws, or on other bones in the walls of the mouth or pharynx of most vertebrates, and which usually aid in the prehension and mastication of food..

Plate :: Plate (n.) A horizontal timber laid upon a wall, or upon corbels projecting from a wall, and supporting the ends of other timbers; also used specifically of the roof plate which supports the ends of the roof trusses or, in simple work, the feet of the rafters..

Ingurgitate :: Ingurgitate (v. t.) To swallow up, as in a gulf..

Creeping :: Creeping (a.) Growing along, and clinging to, the ground, or to a wall, etc., by means of rootlets or tendrils..

Battening :: Battening (n.) Furring done with small pieces nailed directly upon the wall.

Wallaroo :: Wallaroo (n.) Any one of several species of kangaroos of the genus Macropus, especially M. robustus, sometimes called the great wallaroo..

Gymnocyte :: Gymnocyte (n.) A cytode without a proper cell wall, but with a nucleus..

Sidepiece :: Sidepiece (n.) The jamb, or cheek, of an opening in a wall, as of door or window..

Placard :: Placard (v. t.) To post placards upon or within; as, to placard a wall, to placard the city..

Ha-ha :: Ha-ha (n.) A sunk fence; a fence, wall, or ditch, not visible till one is close upon it..

Wallerian Degeneration :: Wallerian degeneration () A form of degeneration occurring in nerve fibers as a result of their division; -- so called from Dr. Waller, who published an account of it in 1850..

Stethoscope :: Stethometer (n.) An apparatus for measuring the external movements of a given point of the chest wall, during respiration; -- also called thoracometer..

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