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Fly :: Fly (v. i.) A heavy wheel, or cross arms with weights at the ends on a revolving axis, to regulate or equalize the motion of machinery by means of its inertia, where the power communicated, or the resistance to be overcome, is variable, as in the steam engine or the coining press. See Fly wheel (below)..

Fly :: Fly (v. i.) The outer canvas of a tent with double top, usually drawn over the ridgepole, but so extended as to touch the roof of the tent at no other place..

Wrack :: Wrack (n.) A thin, flying cloud; a rack..

Wheeled :: Wheeled (a.) Having wheels; -- used chiefly in composition; as, a four-wheeled carriage..

Spring :: Spring (v. i.) A flying back; the resilience of a body recovering its former state by elasticity; as, the spring of a bow..

Right-hand :: Right-hand (a.) Chiefly relied on; almost indispensable.

Wing :: Wing (n.) One of the large pectoral fins of the flying fishes.

Beambird :: Beambird (n.) A small European flycatcher (Muscicapa gricola), so called because it often nests on a beam in a building..

Linen :: Linen (n.) Underclothing, esp. the shirt, as being, in former times, chiefly made of linen..

Kite :: Kite (n.) A light frame of wood or other material covered with paper or cloth, for flying in the air at the end of a string..

Flatbill :: Flatbill (n.) Any bird of the genus Flatyrynchus. They belong to the family of flycatchers.

Y- :: Y- () A prefix of obscure meaning, originally used with verbs, adverbs, adjectives, nouns, and pronouns. In the Middle English period, it was little employed except with verbs, being chiefly used with past participles, though occasionally with the infinitive Ycleped, or yclept, is perhaps the only word not entirely obsolete which shows this use..

Nymph :: Nymph (n.) Any one of a subfamily (Najades) of butterflies including the purples, the fritillaries, the peacock butterfly, etc.; -- called also naiad..

Mariposa Lily :: Mariposa lily () One of a genus (Calochortus) of tuliplike bulbous herbs with large, and often gaycolored, blossoms. Called also butterfly lily. Most of them are natives of California..

Hobble :: Hobble (n. i.) To walk lame, bearing chiefly on one leg; to walk with a hitch or hop, or with crutches..

Bombylious :: Bombylious (a.) Buzzing, like a bumblebee; as, the bombylious noise of the horse fly..

Gout :: Gout (n.) A disease of cornstalks. See Corn fly, under Corn..

Loam :: Loam (n.) A kind of soil; an earthy mixture of clay and sand, with organic matter to which its fertility is chiefly due..

Fly :: Fly (v. i.) That part of a compass on which the points are marked; the compass card.

Hindi :: Hindi (n.) The name given by Europeans to that form of the Hindustani language which is chiefly spoken by native Hindoos. In employs the Devanagari character, in which Sanskrit is written..

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