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Wicket :: Wicket (n.) A small framework at which the ball is bowled. It consists of three rods, or stumps, set vertically in the ground, with one or two short rods, called bails, lying horizontally across the top..

Guard :: Guard (v. t.) A plate of metal, beneath the stock, or the lock frame, of a gun or pistol, having a loop, called a bow, to protect the trigger..

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

Calumet :: Calumet (n.) A kind of pipe, used by the North American Indians for smoking tobacco. The bowl is usually made of soft red stone, and the tube is a long reed often ornamented with feathers..

Melaena :: Melaena (n.) A discharge from the bowels of black matter, consisting of altered blood..

Stem-winder :: Stemson (n.) A piece of curved timber bolted to the stem, keelson, and apron in a ship's frame near the bow..

Stool :: Stool (n.) A seat used in evacuating the bowels; hence, an evacuation; a discharge from the bowels..

Painter :: Painter (n.) A rope at the bow of a boat, used to fasten it to anything..

Profound :: Profound (a.) Bending low, exhibiting or expressing deep humility; lowly; submissive; as, a profound bow..

Bowl :: Bowl (n.) The contents of a full bowl; what a bowl will hold.

Hawse :: Hawse (n.) The situation of the cables when a vessel is moored with two anchors, one on the starboard, the other on the port bow..

Scorifier :: Scorifier (n.) One who, or that which, scorifies; specifically, a small flat bowl-shaped cup used in the first heating in assaying, to remove the earth and gangue, and to concentrate the gold and silver in a lead button..

Bow Hand :: Bow hand () The hand that holds the bow, i. e., the left hand..

Hurdy-gurdy :: Hurdy-gurdy (n.) A stringled instrument, lutelike in shape, in which the sound is produced by the friction of a wheel turned by a crank at the end, instead of by a bow, two of the strings being tuned as drones, while two or more, tuned in unison, are modulated by keys..

Ginglymus :: Ginglymus (n.) A hinge joint; an articulation, admitting of flexion and extension, or motion in two directions only, as the elbow and the ankle..

Bow :: Bow (v. i.) To incline the head in token of salutation, civility, or assent; to make bow..

Scrape :: Scrape (n.) A drawing back of the right foot when bowing; also, a bow made with that accompaniment..

Stringer :: Stringer (n.) One who strings; one who makes or provides strings, especially for bows..

Elbow :: Elbow (v. t.) To push or hit with the elbow, as when one pushes by another..

Hall :: Hall (n.) The chief room in a castle or manor house, and in early times the only public room, serving as the place of gathering for the lord's family with the retainers and servants, also for cooking and eating. It was often contrasted with the bower, which was the private or sleeping apartment..

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