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Slue :: Slue (v. t.) In general, to turn about; to twist; -- often used reflexively and followed by round..

Belie :: Belie (n.) To tell lie about; to calumniate; to slander.

Matchmaker :: Matchmaker (n.) One who tries to bring about marriages.

Elaphure :: Elaphure (n.) A species of deer (Elaphurus Davidianus) found in china. It is about four feet high at the shoulder and has peculiar antlers.

Around :: Around (prep.) On all sides of; encircling; encompassing; so as to make the circuit of; about.

Traipse :: Traipse (v. i.) To walk or run about in a slatternly, careless, or thoughtless manner..

Cad :: Cad (n.) A person who stands at the door of an omnibus to open and shut it, and to receive fares; an idle hanger-on about innyards..

Pood :: Pood (n.) A Russian weight, equal to forty Russian pounds or about thirty-six English pounds avoirdupois..

Enwind :: Enwind (v. t.) To wind about; to encircle.

Compass :: Compass (v. t.) To go about or entirely round; to make the circuit of.

Whereabouts :: Whereabouts (n.) The place where a person or thing is; as, they did not know his whereabouts..

Lose :: Lose (v. t.) To be deprived of the view of; to cease to see or know the whereabouts of; as, he lost his companion in the crowd..

Splatter :: Splashy (a.) Full of dirty water; wet and muddy, so as be easily splashed about; slushy..

Sen :: Sen (n.) A Japanese coin, worth about one half of a cent..

Hemitropous :: Hemitropous (a.) Having the raphe terminating about half way between the chalaza and the orifice; amphitropous; -- said of an ovule.

Vampire :: Vampire (n.) A blood-sucking ghost; a soul of a dead person superstitiously believed to come from the grave and wander about by night sucking the blood of persons asleep, thus causing their death. This superstition is now prevalent in parts of Eastern Europe, and was especially current in Hungary about the year 1730..

Leonid :: Leonid (n.) One of the shooting stars which constitute the star shower that recurs near the fourteenth of November at intervals of about thirty-three years; -- so called because these shooting stars appear on the heavens to move in lines directed from the constellation Leo.

Weather-bit :: Weather-bit (n.) A turn of the cable about the end of the windlass, without the bits..

Middling :: Middling (a.) Of middle rank, state, size, or quality; about equally distant from the extremes; medium; moderate; mediocre; ordinary..

Gapesing :: Gapesing (n.) Act of gazing about; sightseeing.

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