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Optimate :: Optimate (n.) A nobleman or aristocrat; a chief man in a state or city.

Chieftainship :: Chieftainship (n.) The rank, dignity, or office of a chieftain..

Math :: Math (n.) A mowing, or that which is gathered by mowing; -- chiefly used in composition; as, an aftermath..

Handcloth :: Handcloth (n.) A handkerchief.

Trichinize :: Trichinize (v. t.) To render trichinous; to affect with trichinae; -- chiefly used in the past participle; as, trichinized pork..

Lacedaemonian :: Lacedaemonian (a.) Of or pertaining to Lacedaemon or Sparta, the chief city of Laconia in the Peloponnesus..

Hemstitch :: Hemstitch (v. t.) To ornament at the head of a broad hem by drawing out a few parallel threads, and fastening the cross threads in successive small clusters; as, to hemstitch a handkerchief..

Assignation :: Assignation (n.) An appointment of time and place for meeting or interview; -- used chiefly of love interviews, and now commonly in a bad sense..

Reexport :: Reexport (n.) Any commodity reexported; -- chiefly in the plural.

Crater :: Crater (n.) The basinlike opening or mouth of a volcano, through which the chief eruption comes; similarly, the mouth of a geyser, about which a cone of silica is often built up..

Hoax :: Hoax (n.) A deception for mockery or mischief; a deceptive trick or story; a practical joke.

Crownet :: Crownet (n.) The ultimate end and result of an undertaking; a chief end.

Witch :: Witch (n.) One who practices the black art, or magic; one regarded as possessing supernatural or magical power by compact with an evil spirit, esp. with the Devil; a sorcerer or sorceress; -- now applied chiefly or only to women, but formerly used of men as well..

Tycoon :: Tycoon (n.) The title by which the shogun, or former commander in chief of the Japanese army, was known to foreigners..

Primary :: Primary (a.) First in dignity or importance; chief; principal; as, primary planets; a matter of primary importance..

Ribaldry :: Ribaldry (n.) The talk of a ribald; low, vulgar language; indecency; obscenity; lewdness; -- now chiefly applied to indecent language, but formerly, as by Chaucer, also to indecent acts or conduct..

Victual :: Victual (n.) Food; -- now used chiefly in the plural. See Victuals.

Whale :: Whale (n.) Any aquatic mammal of the order Cetacea, especially any one of the large species, some of which become nearly one hundred feet long. Whales are hunted chiefly for their oil and baleen, or whalebone..

Monger :: Monger (v. t.) To deal in; to make merchandise of; to traffic in; -- used chiefly of discreditable traffic.

Bibber :: Bibber (n.) One given to drinking alcoholic beverages too freely; a tippler; -- chiefly used in composition; as, winebibber..

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