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Ell :: Ell (n.) A measure for cloth; -- now rarely used. It is of different lengths in different countries; the English ell being 45 inches, the Dutch or Flemish ell 27, the Scotch about 37..

Pick :: Pick (n.) The blow which drives the shuttle, -- the rate of speed of a loom being reckoned as so many picks per minute; hence, in describing the fineness of a fabric, a weft thread; as, so many picks to an inch..

Linchi :: Linchi (n.) An esculent swallow.

Wetbird :: Wetbird (n.) The chaffinch, whose cry is thought to foretell rain..

Inchipin :: Inchipin (n.) See Inchpin.

Laconical :: Laconical (a.) Laconian; characteristic of, or like, the Spartans; hence, stern or severe; cruel; unflinching..

Breadfruit :: Breadfruit (n.) The fruit of a tree (Artocarpus incisa) found in the islands of the Pacific, esp. the South Sea islands. It is of a roundish form, from four to six or seven inches in diameter, and, when baked, somewhat resembles bread, and is eaten as food, whence the name..

Cinchonidine :: Cinchonidine (n.) One of the quinine group of alkaloids, found especially in red cinchona bark. It is a white crystalline substance, C19H22N2O, with a bitter taste and qualities similar to, but weaker than, quinine; -- sometimes called also cinchonidia..

Yard :: Yard (v. i.) A measure of length, equaling three feet, or thirty-six inches, being the standard of English and American measure..

Pinefinch :: Pinefinch (n.) The pine grosbeak.

Pinch :: Pinch (n.) Pian; pang.

Fungia :: Fungia (n.) A genus of simple, stony corals; -- so called because they are usually flat and circular, with radiating plates, like the gills of a mushroom. Some of them are eighteen inches in diameter..

Bloodulf :: Bloodulf (n.) The European bullfinch.

Clincher :: Clincher (n.) One who, or that which, clinches; that which holds fast..

Grist :: Grist (n.) In rope making, a given size of rope, common grist being a rope three inches in circumference, with twenty yarns in each of the three strands..

Kate :: Kate (n.) The brambling finch.

Redhoop :: Redhoop (n.) The male of the European bullfinch.

Duodecimal :: Duodecimal (n.) A twelfth part; as, the duodecimals of an inch..

Clinch :: Clinch (v. t.) To hold firmly; to hold fast by grasping or embracing tightly.

Reel :: Reel (n.) A machine on which yarn is wound and measured into lays and hanks, -- for cotton or linen it is fifty-four inches in circuit; for worsted, thirty inches..

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