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Harness :: Harness (n.) The part of a loom comprising the heddles, with their means of support and motion, by which the threads of the warp are alternately raised and depressed for the passage of the shuttle..

Alternation :: Alternation (n.) The response of the congregation speaking alternately with the minister.

Recourseful :: Recourseful (a.) Having recurring flow and ebb; moving alternately.

Chessboard :: Chessboard (n.) The board used in the game of chess, having eight rows of alternate light and dark squares, eight in each row. See Checkerboard..

Silique :: Silique (n.) An oblong or elongated seed vessel, consisting of two valves with a dissepiment between, and opening by sutures at either margin. The seeds are attached to both edges of the dissepiment, alternately upon each side of it..

Quatrain :: Quatrain (n.) A stanza of four lines rhyming alternately.

Litany :: Litany (n.) A solemn form of supplication in the public worship of various churches, in which the clergy and congregation join, the former leading and the latter responding in alternate sentences. It is usually of a penitential character..

Oak :: Oak (n.) Any tree or shrub of the genus Quercus. The oaks have alternate leaves, often variously lobed, and staminate flowers in catkins. The fruit is a smooth nut, called an acorn, which is more or less inclosed in a scaly involucre called the cup or cupule. There are now recognized about three hundred species, of which nearly fifty occur in the United States, the rest in Europe, Asia, and the other parts of North America, a very few barely reaching the northern parts of South America and Afric

Flexuous :: Flexuous (a.) Having alternate curvatures in opposite directions; bent in a zigzag manner.

Vary :: Vary (v. t.) To change to something else; to transmute; to exchange; to alternate.

Shed :: Shed (n.) The passageway between the threads of the warp through which the shuttle is thrown, having a sloping top and bottom made by raising and lowering the alternate threads..

Geneagenesis :: Geneagenesis (n.) Alternate generation. See under Generation.

Systasis :: Systaltic (a.) Capable of, or taking place by, alternate contraction and dilatation; as, the systaltic action of the heart..

Checkwork :: Checkwork (n.) Anything made so as to form alternate squares like those of a checkerboard.

Anthem :: Anthem (n.) Formerly, a hymn sung in alternate parts, in present usage, a selection from the Psalms, or other parts of the Scriptures or the liturgy, set to sacred music..

Tabling :: Tabling (n.) The letting of one timber into another by alternate scores or projections, as in shipbuilding..

Two-ranked :: Two-ranked (a.) Alternately disposed on exactly opposite sides of the stem so as to from two ranks; distichous.

Reciprocation :: Reciprocation (n.) Alternate recurrence or action; as, the reciprocation of the sea in the flow and ebb of tides..

Subangular :: Subalternation (n.) The state of being subalternate; succession of turns; subordination.

Reciprocal :: Reciprocal (a.) Recurring in vicissitude; alternate.

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