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Moon :: Moon (n.) A crescentlike outwork. See Half-moon.

Oblique :: Oblique (v. i.) To march in a direction oblique to the line of the column or platoon; -- formerly accomplished by oblique steps, now by direct steps, the men half-facing either to the right or left..

Halve :: Halve (n.) A half.

Doty :: Doty (a.) Half-rotten; as, doty timber..

Octant :: Octant (n.) The position or aspect of a heavenly body, as the moon or a planet, when half way between conjunction, or opposition, and quadrature, or distant from another body 45 degrees..

Syncope :: Syncopation (n.) The act of syncopating; a peculiar figure of rhythm, or rhythmical alteration, which consists in welding into one tone the second half of one beat with the first half of the beat which follows..

Hemihedral :: Hemihedral (a.) Having half of the similar parts of a crystals, instead of all; consisting of half the planes which full symmetry would require, as when a cube has planes only on half of its eight solid angles, or one plane out of a pair on each of its edges; or as in the case of a tetrahedron, which is hemihedral to an octahedron, it being contained under four of the planes of an octahedron..

Mince :: Mince (v. t.) To suppress or weaken the force of; to extenuate; to palliate; to tell by degrees, instead of directly and frankly; to clip, as words or expressions; to utter half and keep back half of..

Rood :: Rood (n.) A measure of five and a half yards in length; a rod; a perch; a pole.

Yardarm :: Yardarm (n.) Either half of a square-rigged vessel's yard, from the center or mast to the end..

Sister :: Sister (n.) A female who has the same parents with another person, or who has one of them only. In the latter case, she is more definitely called a half sister. The correlative of brother..

Lunulet :: Lunulet (n.) A small spot, shaped like a half-moon or crescent; as, the lunulet on the wings of many insects..

Scarp :: Scarp (n.) A band in the same position as the bend sinister, but only half as broad as the latter..

Half-deck :: Half-deck (n.) See Half deck, under Deck..

Again :: Again (adv.) Once repeated; -- of quantity; as, as large again, half as much again..

Demigroat :: Demigroat (n.) A half groat.

Peek :: Peek (v. i.) To look slyly, or with the eyes half closed, or through a crevice; to peep..

Semicalcined :: Semicalcined (a.) Half calcined; as, semicalcined iron..

Hemiglyph :: Hemiglyph (n.) The half channel or groove in the edge of the triglyph in the Doric order.

Double :: Double (n.) A feast in which the antiphon is doubled, hat is, said twice, before and after the Psalms, instead of only half being said, as in simple feasts..

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