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Zymogen :: Zymogen (n.) A mother substance, or antecedent, of an enzyme or chemical ferment; -- applied to such substances as, not being themselves actual ferments, may by internal changes give rise to a ferment..

Selvedge :: Selvedge (n.) The edge of cloth which is woven in such a manner as to prevent raveling.

Elflock :: Elflock (n.) Hair matted, or twisted into a knot, as if by elves..

Paling :: Paling (n.) The act of placing pales or stripes on cloth; also, the stripes themselves..

Duodecimal :: Duodecimal (a.) Proceeding in computation by twelves; expressed in the scale of twelves.

Velvetbreast :: Velvetbreast (n.) The goosander.

List :: List (n.) A strip forming the woven border or selvedge of cloth, particularly of broadcloth, and serving to strengthen it; hence, a strip of cloth; a fillet..

Hang :: Hang (v. i.) To fit properly, as at a proper angle (a part of an implement that is swung in using), as a scythe to its snath, or an ax to its helve..

Duodecimfid :: Duodecimfid (a.) Divided into twelve parts.

Pupillarity :: Pupillarity (n.) The period before puberty, or from birth to fourteen in males, and twelve in females..

Velveting :: Velveting (n.) The fine shag or nap of velvet; a piece of velvet; velvet goods.

Draught :: Draught (n.) The depth of water necessary to float a ship, or the depth a ship sinks in water, especially when laden; as, a ship of twelve feet draught..

Senna :: Senna (n.) The plants themselves, native to the East, but now cultivated largely in the south of Europe and in the West Indies..

Counterscarf :: Counterscarf (n.) The exterior slope or wall of the ditch; -- sometimes, the whole covered way, beyond the ditch, with its parapet and glacis; as, the enemy have lodged themselves on the counterscarp..

Velours :: Velours (n.) One of many textile fabrics having a pile like that of velvet.

Trevat :: Trevat (n.) A weaver's cutting instrument; for severing the loops of the pile threads of velvet.

Combine :: Combine (v. i.) To unite by affinity or natural attraction; as, two substances, which will not combine of themselves, may be made to combine by the intervention of a third..

Cynanthropy :: Cynanthropy (n.) A kind of madness in which men fancy themselves changed into dogs, and imitate the voice and habits of that animal..

Himselve :: Himselve (pron.) See 1st Himself.

Mastersinger :: Mastersinger (n.) One of a class of poets which flourished in Nuremberg and some other cities of Germany in the 15th and 16th centuries. They bound themselves to observe certain arbitrary laws of rhythm.

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