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Spleeny :: Spleenwort (n.) Any fern of the genus Asplenium, some species of which were anciently used as remedies for disorders of the spleen..

Paean :: Paean (n.) An ancient Greek hymn in honor of Apollo as a healing deity, and, later, a song addressed to other deities..

Pelasgic :: Pelasgic (a.) Of or pertaining to the Pelasgians, an ancient people of Greece, of roving habits..

Atrabiliary :: Atrabiliary (a.) Melancholic or hypohondriac; atrabilious; -- from the supposed predominance of black bile, to the influence of which the ancients attributed hypochondria, melancholy, and mania..

Broadax Broadaxe :: Broadax Broadaxe (n.) An ancient military weapon; a battle-ax.

Brehon :: Brehon (n.) An ancient Irish or Scotch judge.

Diplomatic :: Diplomatic (n.) The science of diplomas, or the art of deciphering ancient writings, and determining their age, authenticity, etc.; paleography..

Polygordius :: Polygordius (n.) A genus of marine annelids, believed to be an ancient or ancestral type. It is remarkable for its simplicity of structure and want of parapodia. It is the type of the order Archiannelida, or Gymnotoma. See Loeven's larva..

Chorepiscopus :: Chorepiscopus (n.) A country or suffragan bishop, appointed in the ancient church by a diocesan bishop to exercise episcopal jurisdiction in a rural district..

Annotation :: Annotation (n.) A note, added by way of comment, or explanation; -- usually in the plural; as, annotations on ancient authors, or on a word or a passage..

Deipnosophist :: Deipnosophist (n.) One of an ancient sect of philosophers, who cultivated learned conversation at meals..

Rep-silver :: Rep-silver (n.) Money anciently paid by servile tenants to their lord, in lieu of the customary service of reaping his corn or grain..

Urus :: Urus (n.) A very large, powerful, and savage extinct bovine animal (Bos urus / primigenius) anciently abundant in Europe. It appears to have still existed in the time of Julius Caesar. It had very large horns, and was hardly capable of domestication. Called also, ur, ure, and tur..

Lockram :: Lockram (n.) A kind of linen cloth anciently used in England, originally imported from Brittany..

Petrary :: Petrary (n.) An ancient war engine for hurling stones.

Antique :: Antique (a.) In general, anything very old; but in a more limited sense, a relic or object of ancient art; collectively, the antique, the remains of ancient art, as busts, statues, paintings, and vases..

Coronal :: Coronal (n.) The frontal bone, over which the ancients wore their coronae or garlands..

Pin :: Pin (n.) One of a row of pegs in the side of an ancient drinking cup to mark how much each man should drink.

Palmette :: Palmette (n.) A floral ornament, common in Greek and other ancient architecture; -- often called the honeysuckle ornament..

Novel :: Novel (a.) Of recent origin or introduction; not ancient; new; hence, out of the ordinary course; unusual; strange; surprising..

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