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Enter :: Enter (v. t.) To cause to go (into), or to be received (into); to put in; to insert; to cause to be admitted; as, to enter a knife into a piece of wood, a wedge into a log; to enter a boy at college, a horse for a race, etc..

Sphene :: Sphene (n.) A mineral found usually in thin, wedge-shaped crystals of a yellow or green to black color. It is a silicate of titanium and calcium; titanite..

Wedge-tailed :: Wedge-tailed (a.) Having a tail which has the middle pair of feathers longest, the rest successively and decidedly shorter, and all more or less attenuate; -- said of certain birds. See Illust. of Wood hoopoe, under Wood..

Coin :: Coin (n.) A quoin; a corner or external angle; a wedge. See Coigne, and Quoin..

Water Lettuce :: Water lettuce () A plant (Pistia stratiotes) which floats on tropical waters, and forms a rosette of spongy, wedge-shaped leaves..

Spall :: Spall (v. i.) To give off spalls, or wedge-shaped chips; -- said of stone, as when badly set, with the weight thrown too much on the outer surface..

Cow :: Cow (n.) A wedge, or brake, to check the motion of a machine or car; a chock..

Wedge-formed :: Wedge-formed (a.) Having the form of a wedge; cuneiform.

Cuniform :: Cuniform (a.) Wedge-shaped; as, a cuneiform bone; -- especially applied to the wedge-shaped or arrowheaded characters of ancient Persian and Assyrian inscriptions. See Arrowheaded..

Embolus :: Embolus (n.) Something inserted, as a wedge; the piston or sucker of a pump or syringe..

Quoin :: Quoin (n.) To wedge or lock up a form within a chase.

Wedge :: Wedge (v. t.) To cut, as clay, into wedgelike masses, and work by dashing together, in order to expel air bubbles, etc..

Lug :: Lug (n.) A projecting piece to which anything, as a rod, is attached, or against which anything, as a wedge or key, bears, or through which a bolt passes, etc..

Echelon :: Echelon (n.) An arrangement of a fleet in a wedge or V formation.

Key :: Key (v. t.) To fasten or secure firmly; to fasten or tighten with keys or wedges.

Wedge :: Wedge (n.) A mass of metal, especially when of a wedgelike form..

Cuniform :: Cuniform (n.) The wedge-shaped characters used in ancient Persian and Assyrian inscriptions.

Wedged :: Wedged (imp. & p. p.) of Wedg.

Jam :: Jam (v. t.) To press into a close or tight position; to crowd; to squeeze; to wedge in.

Wedge :: Wedge (n.) The person whose name stands lowest on the list of the classical tripos; -- so called after a person (Wedgewood) who occupied this position on the first list of 1828.

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