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Unhang :: Unhang (v. t.) To divest or strip of hangings; to remove the hangings, as a room..

Transversion :: Transversion (n.) The act of changing from prose into verse, or from verse into prose..

Antependium :: Antependium (n.) The hangings or screen in front of the altar; an altar cloth; the frontal.

Hyperbaton :: Hyperbaton (n.) A figurative construction, changing or inverting the natural order of words or clauses; as, echoed the hills for the hills echoed..

Curtain :: Curtain (n.) A hanging screen intended to darken or conceal, and admitting of being drawn back or up, and reclosed at pleasure; esp., drapery of cloth or lace hanging round a bed or at a window; in theaters, and like places, a movable screen for concealing the stage..

Pendant :: Pendant (n.) A hanging ornament on roofs, ceilings, etc., much used in the later styles of Gothic architecture, where it is of stone, and an important part of the construction. There are imitations in plaster and wood, which are mere decorative features..

Swain :: Swaggy (a.) Inclined to swag; sinking, hanging, or leaning by its weight..

Variable :: Variable (a.) Having the capacity of varying or changing; capable of alternation in any manner; changeable; as, variable winds or seasons; a variable quantity..

Perpendicle :: Perpendicle (n.) Something hanging straight down; a plumb line.

Motion :: Motion (n.) The act, process, or state of changing place or position; movement; the passing of a body from one place or position to another, whether voluntary or involuntary; -- opposed to rest..

Heterodromous :: Heterodromous (a.) Having spirals of changing direction.

Valance :: Valance (n.) Hanging drapery for a bed, couch, window, or the like, especially that which hangs around a bedstead, from the bed to the floor..

Tatter :: Tatter (n.) A rag, or a part torn and hanging; -- chiefly used in the plural..

Antidromous :: Antidromous (a.) Changing the direction in the spiral sequence of leaves on a stem.

Downgyved :: Downgyved (a.) Hanging down like gyves or fetters.

Catenary :: Catenary (n.) The curve formed by a rope or chain of uniform density and perfect flexibility, hanging freely between two points of suspension, not in the same vertical line..

Petrescence :: Petrescence (n.) The process of changing into stone; petrification.

Truss :: Truss (n.) To execute by hanging; to hang; -- usually with up.

Beetle Brow :: Beetle brow () An overhanging brow.

Cape :: Cape (n.) A sleeveless garment or part of a garment, hanging from the neck over the back, arms, and shoulders, but not reaching below the hips. See Cloak..

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