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Prunello :: Prunello (n.) A smooth woolen stuff, generally black, used for making shoes; a kind of lasting; -- formerly used also for clergymen's gowns..

Bordlode :: Bordlode (n.) The service formerly required of a tenant, to carry timber from the woods to the lord's house..

Aerate :: Aerate (v. t.) To combine or charge with gas; usually with carbonic acid gas, formerly called fixed air..

Bloodhound :: Bloodhound (n.) A breed of large and powerful dogs, with long, smooth, and pendulous ears, and remarkable for acuteness of smell. It is employed to recover game or prey which has escaped wounded from a hunter, and for tracking criminals. Formerly it was used for pursuing runaway slaves. Other varieties of dog are often used for the same purpose and go by the same name. The Cuban bloodhound is said to be a variety of the mastiff..

Fungin :: Fungin (n.) A name formerly given to cellulose found in certain fungi and mushrooms.

Gambison :: Gambison (n.) A defensive garment formerly in use for the body, made of cloth stuffed and quilted..

Former :: Former (n.) A templet, pattern, or gauge by which an article is shaped..

Armorican :: Armorican (a.) Of or pertaining to the northwestern part of France (formerly called Armorica, now Bretagne or Brittany), or to its people..

Ploughfoot :: Ploughfoot (n.) An adjustable staff formerly attached to the plow beam to determine the depth of the furrow.

Clarichord :: Clarichord (n.) A musical instrument, formerly in use, in form of a spinet; -- called also manichord and clavichord..

Long :: Long (n.) A note formerly used in music, one half the length of a large, twice that of a breve..

Moho :: Moho (n.) A gallinule (Notornis Mantelli) formerly inhabiting New Zealand, but now supposed to be extinct. It was incapable of flight. See Notornis..

Sprocket Wheel :: Spritsail (n.) A sail formerly hung under the bowsprit, from the spritsail yard..

Hustings :: Hustings (n. pl.) A court formerly held in several cities of England; specif., a court held in London, before the lord mayor, recorder, and sheriffs, to determine certain classes of suits for the recovery of lands within the city. In the progress of law reform this court has become unimportant..

Erst :: Erst (adv.) Previously; before; formerly; heretofore.

Direct :: Direct (n.) A character, thus [/], placed at the end of a staff on the line or space of the first note of the next staff, to apprise the performer of its situation..

Countermand :: Countermand (v. t.) To revoke (a former command); to cancel or rescind by giving an order contrary to one previously given; as, to countermand an order for goods..

Author :: Author (n.) The beginner, former, or first mover of anything; hence, the efficient cause of a thing; a creator; an originator..

Phloretin :: Phloretin (n.) A bitter white crystalline substance obtained by the decomposition of phlorizin, and formerly used to some extent as a substitute for quinine..

Replenish :: Replenish (v. i.) To recover former fullness.

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