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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..

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..

Hinged :: Hinged (imp. & p. p.) of Hing.

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

Verticle :: Verticle (n.) An axis; hinge; a turning point.

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

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

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

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

Gudgeon :: Gudgeon (n.) The pin of iron fastened in the end of a wooden shaft or axle, on which it turns; formerly, any journal, or pivot, or bearing, as the pintle and eye of a hinge, but esp. the end journal of a horizontal..

Diptych :: Diptych (n.) A picture or series of pictures painted on two tablets connected by hinges. See Triptych.

Ginglymoidal :: Ginglymoidal (a.) Pertaining to, or resembling, a ginglymus, or hinge joint; ginglyform..

Summitless :: Summit (n.) The most elevated part of a bivalve shell, or the part in which the hinge is situated..

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..

Testicardines :: Testicardines (n. pl.) A division of brachiopods including those which have a calcareous shell furnished with a hinge and hinge teeth. Terebratula and Spirifer are examples.

Heelpost :: Heelpost (n.) The post to which a gate or door is hinged.

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..

Diptych :: Diptych (n.) A writing tablet consisting of two leaves of rigid material connected by hinges and shutting together so as to protect the writing within.

Unhinge :: Unhinge (v. t.) To displace; to unfix by violence.

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..

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