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Grisons :: Grisons (n. pl.) The largest and most eastern of the Swiss cantons.

Descant :: Descant (v. i.) The canto, cantus, or soprano voice; the treble..

Supply :: Supply (n.) A person who fills a place for a time; one who supplies the place of another; a substitute; esp., a clergyman who supplies a vacant pulpit..

Recantation :: Recantation (n.) The act of recanting; a declaration that contradicts a former one; that which is thus asserted in contradiction; retraction.

Wind :: Wind (v. t.) To drive hard, or force to violent exertion, as a horse, so as to render scant of wind; to put out of breath..

Peppercorn :: Peppercorn (n.) Anything insignificant; a particle.

Paraffine :: Paraffine (n.) A white waxy substance, resembling spermaceti, tasteless and odorless, and obtained from coal tar, wood tar, petroleum, etc., by distillation. It is used as an illuminant and lubricant. It is very inert, not being acted upon by most of the strong chemical reagents. It was formerly regarded as a definite compound, but is now known to be a complex mixture of several higher hydrocarbons of the methane or marsh-gas series; hence, by extension, any substance, whether solid, liquid, or

Snuffler :: Snuffler (n.) One who snuffles; one who uses cant.

Radicant :: Radicant (a.) Taking root on, or above, the ground; rooting from the stem, as the trumpet creeper and the ivy..

Imperial :: Imperial (n.) Anything of unusual size or excellence, as a large decanter, a kind of large photograph, a large sheet of drowing, printing, or writing paper, etc..

Pilulous :: Pilulous (a.) Like a pill; small; insignificant.

Suji :: Suitress (n.) A female supplicant.

Lubricate :: Lubricate (v. t.) To apply a lubricant to, as oil or tallow..

Score :: Score (v. t.) Especially, to mark with significant lines or notches, for indicating or keeping account of something; as, to score a tally..

Albicant :: Albicant (a.) Growing or becoming white.

Indicant :: Indicant (n.) That which indicates or points out; as, an indicant of the remedy for a disease..

Abdicant :: Abdicant (a.) Abdicating; renouncing; -- followed by of.

Hoppo :: Hoppo (n.) A collector of customs, as at Canton; an overseer of commerce..

Redpoll :: Redpoll (n.) Any one of several species of small northern finches of the genus Acanthis (formerly Aegiothus), native of Europe and America. The adults have the crown red or rosy. The male of the most common species (A. linarius) has also the breast and rump rosy. Called also redpoll linnet. See Illust. under Linnet..

Placket :: Placket (n.) A petticoat, esp. an under petticoat; hence, a cant term for a woman..

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