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Epaule :: Epaule (n.) The shoulder of a bastion, or the place where its face and flank meet and form the angle, called the angle of the shoulder..

Heaves :: Heaves (n.) A disease of horses, characterized by difficult breathing, with heaving of the flank, wheezing, flatulency, and a peculiar cough; broken wind..

Flank :: Flank (n.) The side of any building.

Overwing :: Overwing (v. t.) To outflank.

Tower :: Tower (n.) A projection from a line of wall, as a fortification, for purposes of defense, as a flanker, either or the same height as the curtain wall or higher..

Redoubt :: Redoubt (n.) A small, and usually a roughly constructed, fort or outwork of varying shape, commonly erected for a temporary purpose, and without flanking defenses, -- used esp. in fortifying tops of hills and passes, and positions in hostile territory..

Barde :: Barde (n.) A piece of defensive (or, sometimes, ornamental) armor for a horse's neck, breast, and flanks; a barb. [Often in the pl.].

Flank :: Flank (n.) That part of the acting surface of a gear wheel tooth that lies within the pitch line.

Gabionade :: Gabionade (n.) A traverse made with gabions between guns or on their flanks, protecting them from enfilading fire..

Flanker :: Flanker (n.) One who, or that which, flanks, as a skirmisher or a body of troops sent out upon the flanks of an army toguard a line of march, or a fort projecting so as to command the side of an assailing body..

Outflank :: Outflank (v. t.) To go beyond, or be superior to, on the flank; to pass around or turn the flank or flanks of..

Flank :: Flank (v. i.) To border; to touch.

Flanking :: Flanking (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Flan.

Skirmisher :: Skirmisher (n.) Soldiers deployed in loose order, to cover the front or flanks of an advancing army or a marching column..

Shoulder :: Shoulder (n.) The angle of a bastion included between the face and flank. See Illust. of Bastion.

Elbow :: Elbow (n.) A sharp angle in any surface of wainscoting or other woodwork; the upright sides which flank any paneled work, as the sides of windows, where the jamb makes an elbow with the window back..

Observatory :: Observatory (n.) A lookout on a flank of a battery whence an officer can note the range and effect of the fire.

Pylon :: Pylon (n.) An Egyptian gateway to a large building (with or without flanking towers).

Syllable :: Syllable (n.) An elementary sound, or a combination of elementary sounds, uttered together, or with a single effort or impulse of the voice, and constituting a word or a part of a word. In other terms, it is a vowel or a diphtong, either by itself or flanked by one or more consonants, the whole produced by a single impulse or utterance. One of the liquids, l, m, n, may fill the place of a vowel in a syllable. Adjoining syllables in a word or phrase need not to be marked off by a pause, but only

Rubican :: Rubican (a.) Colored a prevailing red, bay, or black, with flecks of white or gray especially on the flanks; -- said of horses..

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