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Cleat :: Cleat (n.) A device made of wood or metal, having two arms, around which turns may be taken with a line or rope so as to hold securely and yet be readily released. It is bolted by the middle to a deck or mast, etc., or it may be lashed to a rope..

Binuclear :: Binuclear (a.) Alt. of Binucleat.

Myeloplax :: Myeloplax (n.) One of the huge multinucleated cells found in the marrow of bone and occasionally in other parts; a giant cell. See Osteoclast.

Cytode :: Cytode (n.) A nonnucleated mass of protoplasm, the supposed simplest form of independent life differing from the amoeba, in which nuclei are present..

Enucleated :: Enucleated (imp. & p. p.) of Enucleat.

Binucleate :: Binucleate (a.) Having two nuclei; as, binucleate cells..

Swilled :: Swig (v. t.) To pull upon (a tackle) by throwing the weight of the body upon the fall between the block and a cleat.

Turn :: Turn (n.) A round of a rope or cord in order to secure it, as about a pin or a cleat..

Enucleate :: Enucleate (v. t.) To remove without cutting (as a tumor).

Cleat :: Cleat (v. t.) To strengthen with a cleat.

Reeve :: Reeve (v. t.) To pass, as the end of a pope, through any hole in a block, thimble, cleat, ringbolt, cringle, or the like..

Belay :: Belay (v. t.) To make fast, as a rope, by taking several turns with it round a pin, cleat, or kevel..

Cleat :: Cleat (n.) A strip of wood or iron fastened on transversely to something in order to give strength, prevent warping, hold position, etc..

Nucleate :: Nucleate (a.) Having a nucleus; nucleated.

Monerula :: Monerula (n.) A germ in that stage of development in which its form is simply that of a non-nucleated mass of protoplasm. It precedes the one-celled germ. So called from its likeness to a moner.

Pus :: Pus (a.) The yellowish white opaque creamy matter produced by the process of suppuration. It consists of innumerable white nucleated cells floating in a clear liquid.

Siding :: Siding (n.) The covering of the outside wall of a frame house, whether made of weatherboards, vertical boarding with cleats, shingles, or the like..

Capstan :: Capstan (n.) A vertical cleated drum or cylinder, revolving on an upright spindle, and surmounted by a drumhead with sockets for bars or levers. It is much used, especially on shipboard, for moving or raising heavy weights or exerting great power by traction upon a rope or cable, passing around the drum. It is operated either by steam power or by a number of men walking around the capstan, each pushing on the end of a lever fixed in its socket..

Cystoplast :: Cystoplast (n.) A nucleated cell having an envelope or cell wall, as a red blood corpuscle or an epithelial cell; a cell concerned in growth..

Uninucleated :: Uninucleated (a.) Possessed of but a single nucleus; as, a uninucleated cell..

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