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About :: About (prep.) In concern with; engaged in; intent on.

Acetabulum :: Acetabulum (n.) A vinegar cup; socket of the hip bone; a measure of about one eighth of a pint, etc..

Tath :: Tath (n.) The luxuriant grass growing about the droppings of cattle in a pasture.

Christocentric :: Christocentric (a.) Making Christ the center, about whom all things are grouped, as in religion or history; tending toward Christ, as the central object of thought or emotion..

Exalbuminous :: Exalbuminous (a.) Having no albumen about the embryo; -- said of certain seeds.

Carucate :: Carucate (n.) A plowland; as much land as one team can plow in a year and a day; -- by some said to be about 100 acres.

Moose :: Moose (n.) A large cervine mammal (Alces machlis, or A. Americanus), native of the Northern United States and Canada. The adult male is about as large as a horse, and has very large, palmate antlers. It closely resembles the European elk, and by many zoologists is considered the same species. See Elk..

Groschen :: Groschen (n.) A small silver coin and money of account of Germany, worth about two cents. It is not included in the new monetary system of the empire..

Tumble :: Tumble (v. t.) To turn over; to turn or throw about, as for examination or search; to roll or move in a rough, coarse, or unceremonious manner; to throw down or headlong; to precipitate; -- sometimes with over, about, etc.; as, to tumble books or papers..

Prance :: Prance (v. i.) To walk or strut about in a pompous, showy manner, or with warlike parade..

Faldage :: Faldage (n.) A privilege of setting up, and moving about, folds for sheep, in any fields within manors, in order to manure them; -- often reserved to himself by the lord of the manor..

About :: About (prep.) In the immediate neighborhood of; in contiguity or proximity to; near, as to place; by or on (one's person)..

Modius :: Modius (n.) A dry measure, containing about a peck..

Napoleon :: Napoleon (n.) A French gold coin of twenty francs, or about $3.86..

Banter :: Banter (v. t.) To jest about; to ridicule in speaking of, as some trait, habit, characteristic, and the like..

Thinolite :: Thinolite (n.) A calcareous tufa, in part crystalline, occurring on a large scale as a shore deposit about the Quaternary lake basins of Nevada..

Suffrago :: Suffragist (n.) One who has certain opinions or desires about the political right of suffrage; as, a woman suffragist..

Meteoroid :: Meteoroid (n.) A small body moving through space, or revolving about the sun, which on entering the earth's atmosphere would be deflagrated and appear as a meteor..

Conoid :: Conoid (n.) A solid formed by the revolution of a conic section about its axis; as, a parabolic conoid, elliptic conoid, etc.; -- more commonly called paraboloid, ellipsoid, etc..

Rei :: Rei (n.) A portuguese money of account, in value about one tenth of a cent..

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