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Arbute :: Arbute (n.) The strawberry tree, a genus of evergreen shrubs, of the Heath family. It has a berry externally resembling the strawberry; the arbute tree..

Skimmington :: Skimmington (n.) A word employed in the phrase, To ride Skimmington; that is to ride on a horse with a woman, but behind her, facing backward, carrying a distaff, and accompanied by a procession of jeering neighbors making mock music; a cavalcade in ridicule of a henpecked man. The custom was in vogue in parts of England..

Trimera :: Trimera (n. pl.) A division of Coleoptera including those which have but three joints in the tarsi.

Antiscorbutical :: Antiscorbutical (a.) Antiscorbutic.

Trident :: Trident (n.) A kind of scepter or spear with three prongs, -- the common attribute of Neptune..

Instrumental :: Instrumental (a.) Acting as an instrument; serving as a means; contributing to promote; conductive; helpful; serviceable; as, he was instrumental in conducting the business..

Voider :: Voider (n.) One of the ordinaries, much like the flanch, but less rounded and therefore smaller..

Distributive :: Distributive (a.) Assigning the species of a general term.

Ursula :: Ursula (n.) A beautiful North American butterfly (Basilarchia, / Limenitis, astyanax). Its wings are nearly black with red and blue spots and blotches. Called also red-spotted purple..

Medusoid :: Medusoid (a.) Like a medusa; having the fundamental structure of a medusa, but without a locomotive disk; -- said of the sessile gonophores of hydroids..

Bowing :: Bowing (n.) In hatmaking, the act or process of separating and distributing the fur or hair by means of a bow, to prepare it for felting..

Chancroid :: Chancroid (n.) A venereal sore, resembling a chancre in its seat and some external characters, but differing from it in being the starting point of a purely local process and never of a systemic disease; -- called also soft chancre..

Surrebuter :: Surrebut (v. i.) To reply, as a plaintiff to a defendant's rebutter..

Predicable :: Predicable (n.) One of the five most general relations of attributes involved in logical arrangements, namely, genus, species, difference, property, and accident..

Rebut :: Rebut (v. i.) To retire; to recoil.

Purveyance :: Purveyance (n.) A providing necessaries for the sovereign by buying them at an appraised value in preference to all others, and oven without the owner's consent. This was formerly a royal prerogative, but has long been abolished..

Misdeal :: Misdeal (v. t. & i.) To deal or distribute wrongly, as cards; to make a wrong distribution..

Freya :: Freya (n.) The daughter of Njord, and goddess of love and beauty; the Scandinavian Venus; -- in Teutonic myths confounded with Frigga, but in Scandinavian, distinct..

A :: A () An adjective, commonly called the indefinite article, and signifying one or any, but less emphatically..

Distribute :: Distribute (v. t.) To employ (a term) in its whole extent; to take as universal in one premise.

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