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Jocantry :: Jocantry (n.) The act or practice of jesting.

Desiccant :: Desiccant (a.) Drying; desiccative.

Motion :: Motion (n.) An application made to a court or judge orally in open court. Its object is to obtain an order or rule directing some act to be done in favor of the applicant.

Scrimp :: Scrimp (v. t.) To make too small or short; to limit or straiten; to put on short allowance; to scant; to contract; to shorten; as, to scrimp the pattern of a coat..

Cantref :: Cantref (n.) A district comprising a hundred villages, as in Wales..

Canticle :: Canticle (n.) The Song of Songs or Song of Solomon, one of the books of the Old Testament..

Cantering :: Cantering (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Cante.

Fateful :: Fateful (a. .) Significant of fate; ominous.

Cantharides :: Cantharides (pl. ) of Canthari.

Canton Crape :: Canton crape () A soft, white or colored silk fabric, of a gauzy texture and wavy appearance, used for ladies' scarfs, shawls, bonnet trimmings, etc.; -- called also Oriental crape..

Mordicant :: Mordicant (a.) Biting; acrid; as, the mordicant quality of a body..

Leisure :: Leisure (n.) Freedom from occupation or business; vacant time; time free from employment.

Enthrone :: Enthrone (v. t.) To induct, as a bishop, into the powers and privileges of a vacant see..

Peccant :: Peccant (a.) Morbid; corrupt; as, peccant humors..

Acanthopterygii :: Acanthopterygii (n. pl.) An order of fishes having some of the rays of the dorsal, ventral, and anal fins unarticulated and spinelike, as the perch..

Hackberry :: Hackberry (n.) A genus of trees (Celtis) related to the elm, but bearing drupes with scanty, but often edible, pulp. C. occidentalis is common in the Eastern United States..

Full :: Full (Compar.) Filled up, having within its limits all that it can contain; supplied; not empty or vacant; -- said primarily of hollow vessels, and hence of anything else; as, a cup full of water; a house full of people..

Duan :: Duan (n.) A division of a poem corresponding to a canto; a poem or song.

Sail :: Sail (n.) To be conveyed in a vessel on water; to pass by water; as, they sailed from London to Canton..

Black Friar :: Black friar () A friar of the Dominican order; -- called also predicant and preaching friar; in France, Jacobin. Also, sometimes, a Benedictine..

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