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Umbo :: Umbo (n.) One of the lateral prominence just above the hinge of a bivalve shell.

Fly :: Fly (v. i.) The piece hinged to the needle, which holds the engaged loop in position while the needle is penetrating another loop; a latch..

Butt Hinge :: Butt hinge () See 1st Butt, 10..

Unhinge :: Unhinge (v. t.) To take from the hinges; as, to unhinge a door..

Hinge :: Hinge (n.) The hook with its eye, or the joint, on which a door, gate, lid, etc., turns or swings; a flexible piece, as a strip of leather, which serves as a joint to turn on..

Door :: Door (n.) The frame or barrier of boards, or other material, usually turning on hinges, by which an entrance way into a house or apartment is closed and opened..

Hinge :: Hinge (n.) One of the four cardinal points, east, west, north, or south..

Hingeless :: Hingeless (a.) Without a hinge or joint.

Crosshead :: Crosshead (n.) A beam or bar across the head or end of a rod, etc., or a block attached to it and carrying a knuckle pin; as the solid crosspiece running between parallel slides, which receives motion from the piston of a steam engine and imparts it to the connecting rod, which is hinged to the crosshead..

Pan :: Pan (n.) A recess, or bed, for the leaf of a hinge..

Wing-shell :: Wing-shell (n.) Any one of various species of marine bivalve shells belonging to the genus Avicula, in which the hinge border projects like a wing..

Whinger :: Whinger (n.) A kind of hanger or sword used as a knife at meals and as a weapon.

Ginglymus :: Ginglymus (n.) A hinge joint; an articulation, admitting of flexion and extension, or motion in two directions only, as the elbow and the ankle..

Pintle :: Pintle (n.) The pivot pin of a hinge.

Flap :: Flap (v.) A hinged leaf, as of a table or shutter..

Hinge :: Hinge (n.) That on which anything turns or depends; a governing principle; a cardinal point or rule; as, this argument was the hinge on which the question turned..

Beak :: Beak (n.) The upper or projecting part of the shell, near the hinge of a bivalve..

Miserere :: Miserere (n.) A small projecting boss or bracket, on the under side of the hinged seat of a church stall (see Stall). It was intended, the seat being turned up, to give some support to a worshiper when standing. Called also misericordia..

Articulata :: Articulata (v.) One of the subdivisions of the Brachiopoda, including those that have the shells united by a hinge..

Inarticulate :: Inarticulate (a.) Without a hinge; -- said of an order (Inarticulata or Ecardines) of brachiopods.

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