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Brake :: Brake (v. t.) An ancient engine of war analogous to the crossbow and ballista.

Anconeal :: Anconeal (a.) Of or pertaining to the ancon or elbow.

Bowery :: Bowery (a.) Shading, like a bower; full of bowers..

Boltsprit :: Boltsprit (n.) See Bowsprit.

Bower :: Bower (v. & n.) An anchor carried at the bow of a ship.

Inside :: Inside (n.) The inward parts; entrails; bowels; hence, that which is within; private thoughts and feelings..

Flux :: Flux (n.) A fluid discharge from the bowels or other part; especially, an excessive and morbid discharge; as, the bloody flux or dysentery. See Bloody flux..

Bowel :: Bowel (n.) One of the intestines of an animal; an entrail, especially of man; a gut; -- generally used in the plural..

Catapult :: Catapult (n.) An engine somewhat resembling a massive crossbow, used by the ancient Greeks and Romans for throwing stones, arrows, spears, etc..

Iridescence :: Iridescence (n.) Exhibition of colors like those of the rainbow; the quality or state of being iridescent; a prismatic play of color; as, the iridescence of mother-of-pearl..

Circumnutation :: Circumnutation (n.) The successive bowing or bending in different directions of the growing tip of the stems of many plants, especially seen in climbing plants..

Mistress :: Mistress (n.) The old name of the jack at bowls.

Salam :: Salam (n.) A salutation or compliment of ceremony in the east by word or act; an obeisance, performed by bowing very low and placing the right palm on the forehead..

Passage :: Passage (v. i.) A movement or an evacuation of the bowels.

Arblast :: Arblast (n.) A crossbow. See Arbalest.

Gammoning :: Gammoning (n.) The lashing or iron band by which the bowsprit of a vessel is secured to the stem to opposite the lifting action of the forestays.

Mazer :: Mazer (n.) A large drinking bowl; -- originally made of maple.

Springal :: Spring (v. i.) A line led from a vessel's quarter to her cable so that by tightening or slacking it she can be made to lie in any desired position; a line led diagonally from the bow or stern of a vessel to some point upon the wharf to which she is moored.

Vire :: Vire (n.) An arrow, having a rotary motion, formerly used with the crossbow. Cf. Vireton..

Arcubalist :: Arcubalist (n.) A crossbow.

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