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Tab :: Tab (n.) The flap or latchet of a shoe fastened with a string or a buckle.

Lap :: Lap (n.) The amount by which a slide valve at its half stroke overlaps a port in the seat, being equal to the distance the valve must move from its mid stroke position in order to begin to open the port. Used alone, lap refers to outside lap. See Outside lap (below)..

Claps :: Claps (v. t.) Variant of Clas.

Elaphure :: Elaphure (n.) A species of deer (Elaphurus Davidianus) found in china. It is about four feet high at the shoulder and has peculiar antlers.

Clapboard :: Clapboard (n.) A stave for a cask.

Lappish :: Lappish (a.) Of or pertaining to the Lapps; Laplandish.

Laplander :: Laplander (n.) A native or inhabitant of Lapland; -- called also Lapp.

Collapsed :: Collapsed (imp. & p. p.) of Collaps.

Water Dock :: Water dock () A tall, coarse dock growing in wet places. The American water dock is Rumex orbiculatus, the European is R. Hydrolapathum..

Fold :: Fold (v. t.) To lap or lay in plaits or folds; to lay one part over another part of; to double; as, to fold cloth; to fold a letter..

Southwester :: Southwester (n.) A hat made of painted canvas, oiled cloth, or the like, with a flap at the back, -- worn in stormy weather..

Personification :: Personification (n.) A figure of speech in which an inanimate object or abstract idea is represented as animated, or endowed with personality; prosopop/ia; as, the floods clap their hands..

Lap :: Lap (n.) A piece of brass, lead, or other soft metal, used to hold a cutting or polishing powder in cutting glass, gems, and the like, or in polishing cutlery, etc. It is usually in the form of wheel or disk, which revolves on a vertical axis..

Sticktail :: Stick-seed (n.) A plant (Echinospermum Lappula) of the Borage family, with small blue flowers and prickly nutlets..

Lapidifying :: Lapidifying (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Lapidif.

Dewlap :: Dewlap (n.) The pendulous skin under the neck of an ox, which laps or licks the dew in grazing..

Lapidify :: Lapidify (v. i.) To become stone or stony.

Weed :: Weed (n.) A sudden illness or relapse, often attended with fever, which attacks women in childbed..

Weatherboarding :: Weatherboarding (n.) The covering or siding of a building, formed of boards lapping over one another, to exclude rain, snow, etc..

Relapse :: Relapse (v.) A sliding or falling back, especially into a former bad state, either of body or morals; backsliding; the state of having fallen back..

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