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Thrust :: Thrust (n.) The breaking down of the roof of a gallery under its superincumbent weight.

Sluiceway :: Sluiceway (n.) An artificial channel into which water is let by a sluice; specifically, a trough constructed over the bed of a stream, so that logs, lumber, or rubbish can be floated down to some convenient place of delivery..

Nondeposition :: Nondeposition (n.) A failure to deposit or throw down.

Bluff-bowed :: Bluff-bowed (a.) Built with the stem nearly straight up and down.

Flamingo :: Flamingo (n.) Any bird of the genus Phoenicopterus. The flamingoes have webbed feet, very long legs, and a beak bent down as if broken. Their color is usually red or pink. The American flamingo is P. ruber; the European is P. antiquorum..

Estreat :: Estreat (n.) A true copy, duplicate, or extract of an original writing or record, esp. of amercements or penalties set down in the rolls of court to be levied by the bailiff, or other officer..

Waped :: Waped (a.) Cast down; crushed by misery; dejected.

Geosynclinal :: Geosynclinal (n.) the downward bend or subsidence of the earth's crust, which allows of the gradual accumulation of sediment, and hence forms the first step in the making of a mountain range; -- opposed to geanticlinal..

Distrain :: Distrain (v. t.) To press heavily upon; to bear down upon with violence; hence, to constrain or compel; to bind; to distress, torment, or afflict..

Leg :: Leg (n.) An extension of the boiler downward, in the form of a narrow space between vertical plates, sometimes nearly surrounding the furnace and ash pit, and serving to support the boiler; -- called also water leg..

Leapfrog :: Leapfrog (n.) A play among boys, in which one stoops down and another leaps over him by placing his hands on the shoulders of the former..

Madrier :: Madrier (n.) A plank to receive the mouth of a petard, with which it is applied to anything intended to be broken down..

Droplight :: Droplight (n.) An apparatus for bringing artificial light down from a chandelier nearer to a table or desk; a pendant.

Overbear :: Overbear (v. t.) To bear down or carry down, as by excess of weight, power, force, etc.; to overcome; to suppress..

Affrap :: Affrap (v. t. & i.) To strike, or strike down..

Quail :: Quail (v. i.) To become quelled; to become cast down; to sink under trial or apprehension of danger; to lose the spirit and power of resistance; to lose heart; to give way; to shrink; to cower.

Deposit :: Deposit (n.) To lay down; to place; to put; to let fall or throw down (as sediment); as, a crocodile deposits her eggs in the sand; the waters deposited a rich alluvium..

Footfall :: Footfall (n.) A setting down of the foot; a footstep; the sound of a footstep.

Cumbent :: Cumbent (a.) Lying down; recumbent.

Weevil :: Weevil (n.) Any one of numerous species of snout beetles, or Rhynchophora, in which the head is elongated and usually curved downward. Many of the species are very injurious to cultivated plants. The larvae of some of the species live in nuts, fruit, and grain by eating out the interior, as the plum weevil, or curculio, the nut weevils, and the grain weevil (see under Plum, Nut, and Grain). The larvae of other species bore under the bark and into the pith of trees and various other plants, as th

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