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Keel :: Keel (n.) Fig.: The whole ship.

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

Encounter :: Encounter (v. i.) To meet face to face; to have a meeting; to meet, esp. as enemies; to engage in combat; to fight; as, three armies encountered at Waterloo..

Knotted :: Knotted (a.) Having intersecting lines or figures.

Aegis :: Aegis (n.) A shield or protective armor; -- applied in mythology to the shield of Jupiter which he gave to Minerva. Also fig.: A shield; a protection.

Life :: Life (n.) Figuratively: The potential or animating principle, also, the period of duration, of anything that is conceived of as resembling a natural organism in structure or functions; as, the life of a state, a machine, or a book; authority is the life of government..

Swash :: Swash (v. t.) An oval figure, whose moldings are oblique to the axis of the work..

Baphomet :: Baphomet (n.) An idol or symbolical figure which the Templars were accused of using in their mysterious rites.

Liking :: Liking (n.) Appearance; look; figure; state of body as to health or condition.

Warm :: Warm (superl.) Fig.: Not cool, indifferent, lukewarm, or the like, in spirit or temper; zealous; ardent; fervent; excited; sprightly; irritable; excitable..

Translative :: Translative (a.) tropical; figurative; as, a translative sense..

Parqueted :: Parqueted (a.) Formed in parquetry; inlaid with wood in small and differently colored figures.

Trample :: Trample (v. t.) Fig.: To treat with contempt and insult.

Osiris :: Osiris (n.) One of the principal divinities of Egypt, the brother and husband of Isis. He was figured as a mummy wearing the royal cap of Upper Egypt, and was symbolized by the sacred bull, called Apis. Cf. Serapis..

Big :: Big (superl.) Great with young; pregnant; swelling; ready to give birth or produce; -- often figuratively.

Stern :: Stern (v. t.) Fig.: The post of management or direction.

Paralysis :: Paralysis (n.) Abolition of function, whether complete or partial; esp., the loss of the power of voluntary motion, with or without that of sensation, in any part of the body; palsy. See Hemiplegia, and Paraplegia. Also used figuratively..

Disfigure :: Disfigure (n.) Disfigurement; deformity.

Apostrophize :: Apostrophize (v. i.) To use the rhetorical figure called apostrophe.

Hyperbaton :: Hyperbaton (n.) A figurative construction, changing or inverting the natural order of words or clauses; as, echoed the hills for the hills echoed..

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