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Axe :: Axe (n.) A tool or instrument of steel, or of iron with a steel edge or blade, for felling trees, chopping and splitting wood, hewing timber, etc. It is wielded by a wooden helve or handle, so fixed in a socket or eye as to be in the same plane with the blade. The broadax, or carpenter's ax, is an ax for hewing timber, made heavier than the chopping ax, and with a broader and thinner blade and a shorter handle..

Digitated :: Digitated (a.) Having several leaflets arranged, like the fingers of the hand, at the extremity of a stem or petiole. Also, in general, characterized by digitation..

Scylla :: Scylla (n.) A dangerous rock on the Italian coast opposite the whirpool Charybdis on the coast of Sicily, -- both personified in classical literature as ravenous monsters. The passage between them was formerly considered perilous; hence, the saying Between Scylla and Charybdis, signifying a great peril on either hand..

Gripe :: Gripe (n.) That on which the grasp is put; a handle; a grip; as, the gripe of a sword..

Hoppet :: Hoppet (n.) A hand basket; also, a dish used by miners for measuring ore..

Operation :: Operation (n.) Any methodical action of the hand, or of the hand with instruments, on the human body, to produce a curative or remedial effect, as in amputation, etc..

Oligarchy :: Oligarchy (n.) A form of government in which the supreme power is placed in the hands of a few persons; also, those who form the ruling few..

Double-handed :: Double-handed (a.) Having two hands.

Offhand :: Offhand (a.) Instant; ready; extemporaneous; as, an offhand speech; offhand excuses..

Manage :: Manage (n.) The handling or government of anything, but esp. of a horse; management; administration. See Manege..

Hammer :: Hammer (n.) An instrument for driving nails, beating metals, and the like, consisting of a head, usually of steel or iron, fixed crosswise to a handle..

Chirographist :: Chirographist (n.) One who tells fortunes by examining the hand.

Backhand :: Backhand (n.) A kind of handwriting in which the downward slope of the letters is from left to right.

Levorotatory :: Levorotatory (a.) Turning or rotating the plane of polarization towards the left; levogyrate, as levulose, left-handed quartz crystals, etc..

Ancillary :: Ancillary (a.) Subservient or subordinate, like a handmaid; auxiliary..

Trinkle :: Trinkle (v. i.) To act secretly, or in an underhand way; to tamper..

Premeditation :: Premeditation (n.) The act of meditating or contriving beforehand; previous deliberation; forethought.

Ferryboat :: Ferryboat (n.) A vessel for conveying passengers, merchandise, etc., across streams and other narrow waters..

Cup :: Cup (n.) A small vessel, used commonly to drink from; as, a tin cup, a silver cup, a wine cup; especially, in modern times, the pottery or porcelain vessel, commonly with a handle, used with a saucer in drinking tea, coffee, and the like..

Mystery :: Mystery (n.) A trade; a handicraft; hence, any business with which one is usually occupied..

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