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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..

Column :: Column (n.) The body formed by the union of the stamens in the Mallow family, or of the stamens and pistil in the orchids..

Pay :: Pay (v. t.) To cover, as bottom of a vessel, a seam, a spar, etc., with tar or pitch, or waterproof composition of tallow, resin, etc.; to smear..

Consecrate :: Consecrate (v. t.) To render venerable or revered; to hallow; to dignify; as, rules or principles consecrated by time..

Althea :: Althea (n.) An ornamental shrub (Hibiscus Syriacus) of the Mallow family.

Wind-sucking :: Wind-sucking (n.) A vicious habit of a horse, consisting in the swallowing of air; -- usually associated with crib-biting, or cribbing. See Cribbing, 4..

Pouch :: Pouch (v. t.) To swallow; -- said of fowls.

Intromit :: Intromit (v. t.) To allow to pass in; to admit.

Wash :: Wash (n.) A piece of ground washed by the action of a sea or river, or sometimes covered and sometimes left dry; the shallowest part of a river, or arm of the sea; also, a bog; a marsh; a fen; as, the washes in Lincolnshire..

Allowance :: Allowance (n.) Approval; approbation.

Commission :: Commission (n.) The brokerage or allowance made to a factor or agent for transacting business for another; as, a commission of ten per cent on sales. See Del credere..

Factorage :: Factorage (n.) The allowance given to a factor, as a compensation for his services; -- called also a commission..

Quartation :: Quartation (n.) The act, process, or result (in the process of parting) of alloying a button of nearly pure gold with enough silver to reduce the fineness so as to allow acids to attack and remove all metals except the gold; -- called also inquartation. Compare Parting..

Turn :: Turn (n.) A fall off the ladder at the gallows; a hanging; -- so called from the practice of causing the criminal to stand on a ladder which was turned over, so throwing him off, when the signal was given..

Superficial :: Superficial (a.) Of or pertaining to the superficies, or surface; lying on the surface; shallow; not deep; as, a superficial color; a superficial covering; superficial measure or contents; superficial tillage..

Housebote :: Housebote (n.) Wood allowed to a tenant for repairing the house and for fuel. This latter is often called firebote. See Bote.

Tallow-faced :: Tallow-faced (a.) Having a sickly complexion; pale.

Fallow :: Fallow (n.) The plowing or tilling of land, without sowing it for a season; as, summer fallow, properly conducted, has ever been found a sure method of destroying weeds..

Trifallowed :: Trifallowed (imp. & p. p.) of Trifallo.

Leveful :: Leveful (n.) Allowable; permissible; lawful.

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