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Timberhead :: Timberhead (n.) The top end of a timber, rising above the gunwale, and serving for belaying ropes, etc.; -- called also kevel head..

Sarking :: Sarking (n.) Thin boards for sheathing, as above the rafters, and under the shingles or slates, and for similar purposes..

Overlap :: Overlap (n.) An extension of geological beds above and beyond others, as in a conformable series of beds, when the upper beds extend over a wider space than the lower, either in one or in all directions..

Response :: Response (n.) A repetition of the given subject in a fugue by another part on the fifth above or fourth below.

Anemoscope :: Anemoscope (n.) An instrument which shows the direction of the wind; a wind vane; a weathercock; -- usually applied to a contrivance consisting of a vane above, connected in the building with a dial or index with pointers to show the changes of the wind..

Pellitory :: Pellitory (n.) The feverfew (Chrysanthemum Parthenium); -- so called because it resembles the above.

Extant :: Extant (a.) Standing out or above any surface; protruded.

Floating :: Floating (n.) Floating threads. See Floating threads, above..

Top-timbers :: Top-timbers (n.) The highest timbers on the side of a vessel, being those above the futtocks..

Yet :: Yet (adv.) In addition; further; besides; over and above; still.

Mediant :: Mediant (n.) The third above the keynote; -- so called because it divides the interval between the tonic and dominant into two thirds.

Blocking Course :: Blocking course () The finishing course of a wall showing above a cornice.

Depend :: Depend (v. i.) To hang down; to be sustained by being fastened or attached to something above.

Relief :: Relief (n.) The height to which works are raised above the bottom of the ditch.

Supra-oesophagal :: Supraocular (a.) Above the eyes; -- said of certain scales of fishes and reptiles.

Altarpiece :: Altarpiece (n.) The painting or piece of sculpture above and behind the altar; reredos.

Sternum :: Sternum (n.) A plate of cartilage, or a series of bony or cartilaginous plates or segments, in the median line of the pectoral skeleton of most vertebrates above fishes; the breastbone..

Scaffold :: Scaffold (n.) An accumulation of adherent, partly fused material forming a shelf, or dome-shaped obstruction, above the tuyeres in a blast furnace..

Viscount :: Viscount (a.) A nobleman of the fourth rank, next in order below an earl and next above a baron; also, his degree or title of nobility. See Peer, n., 3..

Top :: Top (v. t.) To rise above; to excel; to outgo; to surpass.

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