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Lagune :: Lagune (n.) See Lagoon.

Diallage :: Diallage (n.) A figure by which arguments are placed in various points of view, and then turned to one point..

Plagihedral :: Plagihedral (a.) Having an oblique spiral arrangement of planes, as levogyrate and dextrogyrate crystals..

Authentic :: Authentic (n.) Having as immediate relation to the tonic, in distinction from plagal, which has a correspondent relation to the dominant in the octave below the tonic..

Galaxy :: Galaxy (n.) A splendid assemblage of persons or things.

Stallation :: Stallage (n.) Dung of cattle or horses, mixed with straw..

Mucilaginous :: Mucilaginous (a.) Soluble in water, but not in alcohol; yielding mucilage; as, mucilaginous gums or plants..

Ache :: Ache (n.) A name given to several species of plants; as, smallage, wild celery, parsley..

Group :: Group (n.) A variously limited assemblage of animals or plants, having some resemblance, or common characteristics in form or structure. The term has different uses, and may be made to include certain species of a genus, or a whole genus, or certain genera, or even several orders..

Chondroganoidea :: Chondroganoidea (n.) An order of ganoid fishes, including the sturgeons; -- so called on account of their cartilaginous skeleton..

Cricoid :: Cricoid (a.) Resembling a ring; -- said esp. of the cartilage at the larynx, and the adjoining parts..

Infect :: Infect (v. t.) To affect with infectious disease; to communicate infection to; as, infected with the plague..

Gripe :: Gripe (n.) An assemblage of ropes, dead-eyes, and hocks, fastened to ringbolts in the deck, to secure the boats when hoisted; also, broad bands passed around a boat to secure it at the davits and prevent swinging..

Sternum :: Sternum (n.) A plate of cartilage, or a series of bony or cartilaginous plates or segments, in the median line of the pectoral skeleton of most vertebrates above fishes; the breastbone..

Siphonophora :: Siphonophora (n. pl.) An order of pelagic Hydrozoa including species which form complex free-swimming communities composed of numerous zooids of various kinds, some of which act as floats or as swimming organs, others as feeding or nutritive zooids, and others as reproductive zooids. See Illust. under Physallia, and Porpita..

Persifleur :: Persifleur (n.) One who indulges in persiflage; a banterer; a quiz.

Bunt :: Bunt (n.) A fungus (Ustilago foetida) which affects the ear of cereals, filling the grains with a fetid dust; -- also called pepperbrand..

Archipelago :: Archipelago (n.) The Grecian Archipelago, or Aegean Sea, separating Greece from Asia Minor. It is studded with a vast number of small islands..

Heelspur :: Heelspur (n.) A slender bony or cartilaginous process developed from the heel bone of bats. It helps to support the wing membranes. See Illust. of Cheiropter.

Flagrancy :: Flagrancy (n.) The condition or quality of being flagrant; atrocity; heiniousness; enormity; excess.

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