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Saltant :: Saltant (v.) In a leaping position; springing forward; -- applied especially to the squirrel, weasel, and rat, also to the cat, greyhound, monkey, etc..

Pedal :: Pedal (a.) A lever or key acted on by the foot, as in the pianoforte to raise the dampers, or in the organ to open and close certain pipes; a treadle, as in a lathe or a bicycle..

Nepenthes :: Nepenthes (n.) A genus of climbing plants found in India, Malaya, etc., which have the leaves prolonged into a kind of stout tendril terminating in a pitcherlike appendage, whence the plants are often called pitcher plants and monkey-cups. There are about thirty species, of which the best known is Nepenthes distillatoria. See Pitcher plant..

Culverkey :: Culverkey (n.) An English meadow plant, perhaps the columbine or the bluebell squill (Scilla nutans)..

Lackey :: Lackey (v. t.) To attend as a lackey; to wait upon.

Lackeys :: Lackeys (pl. ) of Lacke.

Key Tone :: Key tone () See Keynote.

Clavis :: Clavis (n.) A key; a glossary.

Jockey :: Jockey (n.) A dealer in horses; a horse trader.

Fissurella :: Fissurella (n.) A genus of marine gastropod mollusks, having a conical or limpetlike shell, with an opening at the apex; -- called also keyhole limpet..

Bridge-ward :: Bridge-ward (n.) The principal ward of a key.

Sagitta :: Sagitta (n.) The keystone of an arch.

Talon :: Talon (n.) The shoulder of the bolt of a lock on which the key acts to shoot the bolt.

Fifth :: Fifth (n.) The interval of three tones and a semitone, embracing five diatonic degrees of the scale; the dominant of any key..

Shinney :: Shinney (n.) The game of hockey; -- so called because of the liability of the players to receive blows on the shin.

Macacus :: Macacus (n.) A genus of monkeys, found in Asia and the East Indies. They have short tails and prominent eyebrows..

Key :: Key (v. t.) To fasten or secure firmly; to fasten or tighten with keys or wedges.

Transition :: Transition (n.) A direct or indirect passing from one key to another; a modulation.

Keynote :: Keynote (n.) The fundamental fact or idea; that which gives the key; as, the keynote of a policy or a sermon..

Munga :: Munga (n.) See Bonnet monkey, under Bonnet..

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