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Templet :: Templet (n.) A gauge, pattern, or mold, commonly a thin plate or board, used as a guide to the form of the work to be executed; as, a mason's or a wheelwright's templet..

Larkspur :: Larkspur (n.) A genus of ranunculaceous plants (Delphinium), having showy flowers, and a spurred calyx. They are natives of the North Temperate zone. The commonest larkspur of the gardens is D. Consolida. The flower of the bee larkspur (D. elatum) has two petals bearded with yellow hairs, and looks not unlike a bee..

Ban :: Ban (n.) Notice of a proposed marriage, proclaimed in church. See Banns (the common spelling in this sense)..

Tabernacular :: Tabernacular (a.) Of or pertaining to huts or booths; hence, common; low..

Teem :: Teem (v. t.) To pour; -- commonly followed by out; as, to teem out ale..

Gryllus :: Gryllus (n.) A genus of insects including the common crickets.

Equate :: Equate (v. t.) To make equal; to reduce to an average; to make such an allowance or correction in as will reduce to a common standard of comparison; to reduce to mean time or motion; as, to equate payments; to equate lines of railroad for grades or curves; equated distances..

Sea Bream :: Sea bream () Any one of several species of sparoid fishes, especially the common European species (Pagellus centrodontus), the Spanish (P. Oweni), and the black sea bream (Cantharus lineatus); -- called also old wife..

Load :: Load (v.) A particular measure for certain articles, being as much as may be carried at one time by the conveyance commonly used for the article measured; as, a load of wood; a load of hay; specifically, five quarters..

Appellative :: Appellative (a.) Common, as opposed to proper; denominative of a class..

Custom :: Custom (n.) Frequent repetition of the same act; way of acting common to many; ordinary manner; habitual practice; usage; method of doing or living.

Machine :: Machine (n.) A combination of persons acting together for a common purpose, with the agencies which they use; as, the social machine..

Particular :: Particular (a.) Of or pertaining to a single person, class, or thing; belonging to one only; not general; not common; hence, personal; peculiar; singular..

Parallelism :: Parallelism (n.) Similarity of construction or meaning of clauses placed side by side, especially clauses expressing the same sentiment with slight modifications, as is common in Hebrew poetry; e. g.: --//At her feet he bowed, he fell:/Where he bowed, there he fell down dead. Judg. v. 27..

Commensurate :: Commensurate (a.) Having a common measure; commensurable; reducible to a common measure; as, commensurate quantities..

Staled :: Stale (v. i.) Worn out by use or familiarity; having lost its novelty and power of pleasing; trite; common.

Clover :: Clover (n.) A plant of different species of the genus Trifolium; as the common red clover, T. pratense, the white, T. repens, and the hare's foot, T. arvense..

Bitter Spar :: Bitter spar () A common name of dolomite; -- so called because it contains magnesia, the soluble salts of which are bitter. See Dolomite..

Advice :: Advice (n.) Information or notice given; intelligence; as, late advices from France; -- commonly in the plural..

Beaten :: Beaten (a.) Become common or trite; as, a beaten phrase..

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