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Reconstruction :: Reconstruction (n.) The act of constructing again; the state of being reconstructed.

Hypostyle :: Hypostyle (a.) Resting upon columns; constructed by means of columns; -- especially applied to the great hall at Karnak.

Sextant :: Sextant (n.) An instrument for measuring angular distances between objects, -- used esp. at sea, for ascertaining the latitude and longitude. It is constructed on the same optical principle as Hadley's quadrant, but usually of metal, with a nicer graduation, telescopic sight, and its arc the sixth, and sometimes the third, part of a circle. See Quadrant..

Cassican :: Cassican (n.) An American bird of the genus Cassicus, allied to the starlings and orioles, remarkable for its skillfully constructed and suspended nest; the crested oriole. The name is also sometimes given to the piping crow, an Australian bird..

Dry-stone :: Dry-stone (a.) Constructed of uncemented stone.

Fanciful :: Fanciful (a.) Curiously shaped or constructed; as, she wore a fanciful headdress..

Diaphanoscope :: Diaphanoscope (n.) A dark box constructed for viewing transparent pictures, with or without a lens..

Archetype :: Archetype (n.) The plan or fundamental structure on which a natural group of animals or plants or their systems of organs are assumed to have been constructed; as, the vertebrate archetype..

Rubblework :: Rubblework (n.) Masonry constructed of unsquared stones that are irregular in size and shape.

Hurdle :: Hurdle (n.) An artificial barrier, variously constructed, over which men or horses leap in a race..

Cocoon :: Cocoon (n.) The case constructed by any insect to contain its larva or pupa.

Contravallation :: Contravallation (n.) A trench guarded with a parapet, constructed by besiegers, to secure themselves and check sallies of the besieged..

Theodolite :: Theodolite (n.) An instrument used, especially in trigonometrical surveying, for the accurate measurement of horizontal angles, and also usually of vertical angles. It is variously constructed..

Forcipal :: Forcipal (a.) Forked or branched like a pair of forceps; constructed so as to open and shut like a pair of forceps.

Retrenchment :: Retrenchment (n.) A work constructed within another, to prolong the defense of the position when the enemy has gained possession of the outer work; or to protect the defenders till they can retreat or obtain terms for a capitulation..

Priapean :: Priapean (n.) A species of hexameter verse so constructed as to be divisible into two portions of three feet each, having generally a trochee in the first and the fourth foot, and an amphimacer in the third; -- applied also to a regular hexameter verse when so constructed as to be divisible into two portions of three feet each..

Turbine :: Turbine (n.) A water wheel, commonly horizontal, variously constructed, but usually having a series of curved floats or buckets, against which the water acts by its impulse or reaction in flowing either outward from a central chamber, inward from an external casing, or from above downward, etc.; -- also called turbine wheel..

Parallel :: Parallel (n.) One of a series of long trenches constructed before a besieged fortress, by the besieging force, as a cover for troops supporting the attacking batteries. They are roughly parallel to the line of outer defenses of the fortress..

Holosteric :: Holosteric (a.) Wholly solid; -- said of a barometer constructed of solid materials to show the variations of atmospheric pressure without the use of liquids, as the aneroid..

Wharf :: Wharf (v. t.) To guard or secure by a firm wall of timber or stone constructed like a wharf; to furnish with a wharf or wharfs.

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