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Longitude :: Longitude (n.) Length; measure or distance along the longest line; -- distinguished from breadth or thickness; as, the longitude of a room; rare now, except in a humorous sense..

Fault :: Fault (v. t.) To interrupt the continuity of (rock strata) by displacement along a plane of fracture; -- chiefly used in the p. p.; as, the coal beds are badly faulted..

Dart :: Dart (v. i.) To start and run with velocity; to shoot rapidly along; as, the deer darted from the thicket..

Way :: Way (n.) The longitudinal guides, or guiding surfaces, on the bed of a planer, lathe, or the like, along which a table or carriage moves..

Palmyra :: Palmyra (n.) A species of palm (Borassus flabelliformis) having a straight, black, upright trunk, with palmate leaves. It is found native along the entire northern shores of the Indian Ocean, from the mouth of the Tigris to New Guinea. More than eight hundred uses to which it is put are enumerated by native writers. Its wood is largely used for building purposes; its fruit and roots serve for food, its sap for making toddy, and its leaves for thatching huts..

Uniaxial :: Uniaxial (a.) Having only one axis; developing along a single line or plane; -- opposed to multiaxial.

Down :: Down (prep.) A bank or rounded hillock of sand thrown up by the wind along or near the shore; a flattish-topped hill; -- usually in the plural.

Ocypodian :: Ocypodian (n.) One of a tribe of crabs which live in holes in the sand along the seashore, and run very rapidly, -- whence the name..

Thrum :: Thrum (n.) A shove out of place; a small displacement or fault along a seam.

Foreby :: Foreby (prep.) Near; hard by; along; past. See Forby.

Lirella :: Lirella (n.) A linear apothecium furrowed along the middle; the fruit of certain lichens.

Wharf :: Wharf (n.) A structure or platform of timber, masonry, iron, earth, or other material, built on the shore of a harbor, river, canal, or the like, and usually extending from the shore to deep water, so that vessels may lie close alongside to receive and discharge cargo, passengers, etc.; a quay; a pier..

Sonometer :: Sonometer (n.) An instrument for exhibiting the transverse vibrations of cords, and ascertaining the relations between musical notes. It consists of a cord stretched by weight along a box, and divided into different lengths at pleasure by a bridge, the place of which is determined by a scale on the face of the box..

Waif :: Waif (n.) Hence, anything found, or without an owner; that which comes along, as it were, by chance..

Calk :: Calk (v. t.) To make an indentation in the edge of a metal plate, as along a seam in a steam boiler or an iron ship, to force the edge of the upper plate hard against the lower and so fill the crevice..

Tug :: Tug (v. t.) To pull or draw with great effort; to draw along with continued exertion; to haul along; to tow; as, to tug a loaded cart; to tug a ship into port..

Up :: Up (prep.) From a lower to a higher place on, upon, or along; at a higher situation upon; at the top of..

Coordain :: Coordain (v. t.) To ordain or appoint for some purpose along with another.

Scapular :: Scapular (n.) One of a special group of feathers which arise from each of the scapular regions and lie along the sides of the back.

Waddle :: Waddle (v. i.) To walk with short steps, swaying the body from one side to the other, like a duck or very fat person; to move clumsily and totteringly along; to toddle; to stumble; as, a child waddles when he begins to walk; a goose waddles..

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