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Reclinate :: Reclinate (a.) Reclined, as a leaf; bent downward, so that the point, as of a stem or leaf, is lower than the base..

Inward :: Inward (a.) Seated in the mind, heart, spirit, or soul..

Pusillanimous :: Pusillanimous (a.) Destitute of a manly or courageous strength and firmness of mind; of weak spirit; mean-spirited; spiritless; cowardly; -- said of persons, as, a pussillanimous prince..

Parry :: Parry (n.) A warding off of a thrust or blow, as in sword and bayonet exercises or in boxing; hence, figuratively, a defensive movement in debate or other intellectual encounter..

Tend :: Tend (a.) To move in a certain direction; -- usually with to or towards.

Bearward :: Bearward (n.) A keeper of bears. See Bearherd.

Progressive :: Progressive (a.) Moving forward; proceeding onward; advancing; evincing progress; increasing; as, progressive motion or course; -- opposed to retrograde..

Crotchet :: Crotchet (n.) The arrangement of a body of troops, either forward or rearward, so as to form a line nearly perpendicular to the general line of battle..

Curstness :: Curstness (n.) Peevishness; malignity; frowardness; crabbedness; surliness.

Prize :: Prize (n.) An honor or reward striven for in a competitive contest; anything offered to be competed for, or as an inducement to, or reward of, effort..

Exterior :: Exterior (n.) Outward or external deportment, form, or ceremony; visible act; as, the exteriors of religion..

Cantle :: Cantle (n.) The upwardly projecting rear part of saddle, opposite to the pommel..

Synclinal :: Synclastic (a.) Curved toward the same side in all directions; -- said of surfaces which in all directions around any point bend away from a tangent plane toward the same side, as the surface of a sphere; -- opposed to anticlastic..

Ascent :: Ascent () The act of rising; motion upward; rise; a mounting upward; as, he made a tedious ascent; the ascent of vapors from the earth..

Spurry :: Spur-royal (n.) A gold coin, first made in the reign of Edward IV., having a star on the reverse resembling the rowel of a spur. In the reigns of Elizabeth and of James I., its value was fifteen shillings..

Procacity :: Procacity (n.) Forwardness; pertness; petulance.

Exosmose :: Exosmose (n.) The passage of gases, vapors, or liquids thought membranes or porous media from within outward, in the phenomena of osmose; -- opposed to endosmose. See Osmose..

Inwardness :: Inwardness (n.) Internal or true state; essential nature; as, the inwardness of conduct..

Gild :: Gild (v. t.) To give a fair but deceptive outward appearance to; to embellish; as, to gild a lie..

Foreright :: Foreright (adv.) Right forward; onward.

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