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Lodge :: Lodge (n.) To lay down; to prostrate.

Milkweed :: Milkweed (n.) Any plant of the genera Asclepias and Acerates, abounding in a milky juice, and having its seed attached to a long silky down; silkweed. The name is also applied to several other plants with a milky juice, as to several kinds of spurge..

Depress :: Depress (v. t.) To bring down or humble; to abase, as pride..

Go :: Go (n.) That condition in the course of the game when a player can not lay down a card which will not carry the aggregate count above thirty-one.

Underturn :: Underturn (v. t.) To turn upside down; to subvert; to upset.

Chimney :: Chimney (n.) A body of ore, usually of elongated form, extending downward in a vein..

Application :: Application (n.) Hence, in specific uses: (a) That part of a sermon or discourse in which the principles before laid down and illustrated are applied to practical uses; the moral of a fable. (b) The use of the principles of one science for the purpose of enlarging or perfecting another; as, the application of algebra to geometry..

Dance :: Dance (v. t.) To cause to dance, or move nimbly or merrily about, or up and down; to dandle..

Razee :: Razee (v. t.) An armed ship having her upper deck cut away, and thus reduced to the next inferior rate, as a seventy-four cut down to a frigate..

Crush :: Crush (v. t.) To overwhelm by pressure or weight; to beat or force down, as by an incumbent weight..

Psilopaedes :: Psilopaedes (n. pl.) birds whose young at first have down on the pterylae only; -- called also Gymnopaedes.

Upcast :: Upcast (n.) The ventilating shaft of a mine out of which the air passes after having circulated through the mine; -- distinguished from the downcast. Called also upcast pit, and upcast shaft..

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..

Tumble-down :: Tumble-down (a.) Ready to fall; dilapidated; ruinous; as, a tumble-down house..

A- :: A- () A, as a prefix to English words, is derived from various sources. (1) It frequently signifies on or in (from an, a forms of AS. on), denoting a state, as in afoot, on foot, abed, amiss, asleep, aground, aloft, away (AS. onweg), and analogically, ablaze, atremble, etc. (2) AS. of off, from, as in adown (AS. ofd/ne off the dun or hill). (3) AS. a- (Goth. us-, ur-, Ger. er-), usually giving an intensive force, and sometimes the sense of away, on, back, as in arise, abide, ago. (4) Old English

Lodged :: Lodged (a.) Lying down; -- used of beasts of the chase, as couchant is of beasts of prey..

Slipshod :: Slipshod (a.) Wearing shoes or slippers down at the heel.

Devexity :: Devexity (a.) A bending downward; a sloping; incurvation downward; declivity.

Obimbricate :: Obimbricate (a.) Imbricated, with the overlapping ends directed downward..

Such :: Succussive (a.) Characterized by a shaking motion, especially an up and down movement, and not merely tremulous oscillation; as, the succussive motion in earthquakes..

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