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Frippery :: Frippery (n.) Hence: Secondhand finery; cheap and tawdry decoration; affected elegance.

Powder-posted :: Powder-posted (a.) Affected with dry rot; reduced to dust by rot. See Dry rot, under Dry..

Tawdriness :: Tawdriness (n.) Quality or state of being tawdry.

Hamadryad :: Hamadryad (n.) A tree nymph whose life ended with that of the particular tree, usually an oak, which had been her abode..

Conflation :: Conflation (n.) A blowing together, as of many instruments in a concert, or of many fires in a foundry..

Drupe :: Drupe (n.) A fruit consisting of pulpy, coriaceous, or fibrous exocarp, without valves, containing a nut or stone with a kernel. The exocarp is succulent in the plum, cherry, apricot, peach, etc.; dry and subcoriaceous in the almond; and fibrous in the cocoanut..

Squill :: Squilgee (n.) Formerly, a small swab for drying a vessel's deck; now, a kind of scraper having a blade or edge of rubber or of leather, -- used for removing superfluous, water or other liquids, as from a vessel's deck after washing, from window panes, photographer's plates, etc..

Hebe :: Hebe (n.) An African ape; the hamadryas.

Polyandric :: Polyandric (a.) Pertaining to, or characterized by, polyandry; mating with several males..

Torrefy :: Torrefy (v. t.) To dry or parch, as drugs, on a metallic plate till they are friable, or are reduced to the state desired..

Stillness :: Stillion (n.) A stand, as for casks or vats in a brewery, or for pottery while drying..

Surquidry :: Surquedry (n.) Alt. of Surquidr.

Achenium :: Achenium (n.) A small, dry, indehiscent fruit, containing a single seed, as in the buttercup; -- called a naked seed by the earlier botanists..

Hoofbound :: Hoofbound (a.) Having a dry and contracted hoof, which occasions pain and lameness..

Divers :: Divers (a.) Several; sundry; various; more than one, but not a great number; as, divers philosophers. Also used substantively or pronominally..

Merchandry :: Merchandry (n.) Trade; commerce.

Steeler :: Steelbow goods () Those goods on a farm, such as corn, cattle, implements husbandry, etc., which may not be carried off by a removing tenant, as being the property of the landlord..

Droughty :: Droughty (a.) Dry; thirsty; wanting drink.

Dry-rub :: Dry-rub (v. t.) To rub and cleanse without wetting.

Aridity :: Aridity (n.) Fig.: Want of interest of feeling; insensibility; dryness of style or feeling; spiritual drought.

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