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Clerk-ale :: Clerk-ale (n.) A feast for the benefit of the parish clerk.

Forwhy :: Forwhy (conj.) Wherefore; because.

Zauschneria :: Zauschneria (n.) A genus of flowering plants. Zauschneria Californica is a suffrutescent perennial, with showy red flowers much resembling those of the garden fuchsia..

Blastoidea :: Blastoidea (n. pl.) One of the divisions of Crinoidea found fossil in paleozoic rocks; pentremites. They are so named on account of their budlike form.

Frizel :: Frizel (a.) A movable furrowed piece of steel struck by the flint, to throw sparks into the pan, in an early form of flintlock..

Stock :: Stock (v. t.) To lay up; to put aside for future use; to store, as merchandise, and the like..

Hoa :: Hoa (interj.) Stop! stand still! hold! -- a word now used by teamsters, but formerly to order the cessation of anything..

Hyperbola :: Hyperbola (n.) A curve formed by a section of a cone, when the cutting plane makes a greater angle with the base than the side of the cone makes. It is a plane curve such that the difference of the distances from any point of it to two fixed points, called foci, is equal to a given distance. See Focus. If the cutting plane be produced so as to cut the opposite cone, another curve will be formed, which is also an hyperbola. Both curves are regarded as branches of the same hyperbola. See Illust. o

Foreshadow :: Foreshadow (v. t.) To shadow or typi/y beforehand; to prefigure.

Fibula :: Fibula (n.) A needle for sewing up wounds.

True :: True (n.) Right to precision; conformable to a rule or pattern; exact; accurate; as, a true copy; a true likeness of the original..

Armature :: Armature (n.) A piece of soft iron used to connect the two poles of a magnet, or electro-magnet, in order to complete the circuit, or to receive and apply the magnetic force. In the ordinary horseshoe magnet, it serves to prevent the dissipation of the magnetic force..

Metaphysis :: Metaphysis (n.) Change of form; transformation.

Fitness :: Fitness (n.) The state or quality of being fit; as, the fitness of measures or laws; a person's fitness for office..

Prytanis :: Prytanis (n.) A member of one of the ten sections into which the Athenian senate of five hundred was divided, and to each of which belonged the presidency of the senate for about one tenth of the year..

Procumbent :: Procumbent (a.) Lying on the ground, but without putting forth roots; trailing; prostrate; as, a procumbent stem..

Hew :: Hew (n.) Shape; form.

Shoot :: Shoot (v. i.) To push or thrust forward; to project; to protrude; -- often with out; as, a plant shoots out a bud..

Drag :: Drag (v. t.) A kind of sledge for conveying heavy bodies; also, a kind of low car or handcart; as, a stone drag..

Liberty :: Liberty (n.) A curve or arch in a bit to afford room for the tongue of the horse.

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