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Beak :: Beak (n.) A beam, shod or armed at the end with a metal head or point, and projecting from the prow of an ancient galley, in order to pierce the vessel of an enemy; a beakhead..

Empaistic :: Empaistic (a.) Having to do with inlaid work; -- especially used with reference to work of the ancient Greeks.

Tasse :: Tasse (n.) A piece of armor for the thighs, forming an appendage to the ancient corselet..

Eparch :: Eparch (n.) In ancient Greece, the governor or perfect of a province; in modern Greece, the ruler of an eparchy..

Agora :: Agora (n.) An assembly; hence, the place of assembly, especially the market place, in an ancient Greek city..

Premier :: Premier (a.) Most ancient; -- said of the peer bearing the oldest title of his degree.

Chlamys :: Chlamys (n.) A loose and flowing outer garment, worn by the ancient Greeks; a kind of cloak..

Accubation :: Accubation (n.) The act or posture of reclining on a couch, as practiced by the ancients at meals..

Vestige :: Vestige (n.) The mark of the foot left on the earth; a track or footstep; a trace; a sign; hence, a faint mark or visible sign left by something which is lost, or has perished, or is no longer present; remains; as, the vestiges of ancient magnificence in Palmyra; vestiges of former population..

Ancienty :: Ancienty (n.) Age; antiquity.

Sinopite :: Sinopite (n.) A brickred ferruginous clay used by the ancients for red paint.

Rhyparography :: Rhyparography (n.) In ancient art, the painting of genre or still-life pictures..

Paleography :: Paleography (n.) An ancient manner of writing; ancient writings, collectively; as, Punic paleography..

Peribolos :: Peribolos (n.) In ancient architecture, an inclosed court, esp., one surrounding a temple..

Dog Days :: Dog days () A period of from four to six weeks, in the summer, variously placed by almanac makers between the early part of July and the early part of September; canicular days; -- so called in reference to the rising in ancient times of the Dog Star (Sirius) with the sun. Popularly, the sultry, close part of the summer..

Starched :: Star-chamber (n.) An ancient high court exercising jurisdiction in certain cases, mainly criminal, which sat without the intervention of a jury. It consisted of the king's council, or of the privy council only with the addition of certain judges. It could proceed on mere rumor or examine witnesses; it could apply torture. It was abolished by the Long Parliament in 1641..

Harrow :: Harrow (interj.) Help! Halloo! An exclamation of distress; a call for succor;-the ancient Norman hue and cry.

Sphere :: Sphere (n.) In ancient astronomy, one of the concentric and eccentric revolving spherical transparent shells in which the stars, sun, planets, and moon were supposed to be set, and by which they were carried, in such a manner as to produce their apparent motions..

Cerinthian :: Cerinthian (n.) One of an ancient religious sect, so called from Cerinthus, a Jew, who attempted to unite the doctrines of Christ with the opinions of the Jews and Gnostics..

Syriacism :: Syriac (n.) The language of Syria; especially, the ancient language of that country..

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