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Alabaster :: Alabaster (n.) A box or vessel for holding odoriferous ointments, etc.; -- so called from the stone of which it was originally made..

Subpeduncular :: Suboxide (n.) An oxide containing a relatively small amount of oxygen, and less than the normal proportion; as, potassium suboxide, K4O..

Turn :: Turn (v. t.) To cause to present a different side uppermost or outmost; to make the upper side the lower, or the inside to be the outside of; to reverse the position of; as, to turn a box or a board; to turn a coat..

Uptake :: Uptake (n.) The pipe leading upward from the smoke box of a steam boiler to the chimney, or smokestack; a flue leading upward..

Edge :: Edge (v. t.) To furnish with a fringe or border; as, to edge a dress; to edge a garden with box..

Marron :: Marron (a.) A paper or pasteboard box or shell, wound about with strong twine, filled with an explosive, and ignited with a fuse, -- used to make a noise like a cannon..

Slugger :: Slugger (n.) One who strikes heavy blows; hence, a boxer; a prize fighter..

Sluice :: Sluice (n.) A long box or trough through which water flows, -- used for washing auriferous earth..

Whereret :: Whereret (v. t.) To box (one) on the ear; to strike or box. (the ear); as, to wherret a child..

Follower :: Follower (n.) A gland. See Illust. of Stuffing box.

Battery :: Battery (v. t.) The box in which the stamps for crushing ore play up and down.

Ditty-box :: Ditty-box (n.) A small box to hold a sailor's thread, needless, comb, etc..

Capcase :: Capcase (n.) A small traveling case or bandbox; formerly, a chest..

Nitrile :: Nitrile (n.) Any one of a series of cyanogen compounds; particularly, one of those cyanides of alcohol radicals which, by boiling with acids or alkalies, produce a carboxyl acid, with the elimination of the nitrogen as ammonia..

Tabernacle :: Tabernacle (n.) A boxlike step for a mast with the after side open, so that the mast can be lowered to pass under bridges, etc..

Shrine :: Shrine (n.) A case, box, or receptacle, especially one in which are deposited sacred relics, as the bones of a saint..

Hopper :: Hopper (n.) A chute, box, or receptacle, usually funnel-shaped with an opening at the lower part, for delivering or feeding any material, as to a machine; as, the wooden box with its trough through which grain passes into a mill by joining or shaking, or a funnel through which fuel passes into a furnace, or coal, etc., into a car..

Boxhauling :: Boxhauling (n.) A method of going from one tack to another. See Boxhaul.

Nest :: Nest (n.) A collection of boxes, cases, or the like, of graduated size, each put within the one next larger..

Close :: Close (v. t.) Shut fast; closed; tight; as, a close box..

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