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Laxity :: Laxity (a.) The state or quality of being lax; want of tenseness, strictness, or exactness..

Jurel :: "Jurel (n.) A yellow carangoid fish of the Atlantic and Gulf coasts (Caranx chrysos), most abundant southward, where it is valued as a food fish; -- called also hardtail, horse crevalle, jack, buffalo jack, skipjack, yellow mackerel, and sometimes, improperly, horse mackerel. Other species of Caranx (as C. fallax) are also sometimes called jurel..

Latitudinarian :: Latitudinarian (a.) Indifferent to a strict application of any standard of belief or opinion; hence, deviating more or less widely from such standard; lax in doctrine; as, latitudinarian divines; latitudinarian theology..

Globeflower :: Globeflower (n.) The American plant Trollius laxus.

Myeloplaxes :: Myeloplaxes (pl. ) of Myelopla.

Linne :: Linne (n.) Flax. See Linen.

Bull Brier :: Bull brier () A species of Smilax (S. Pseudo-China) growing from New Jersey to the Gulf of Mexico, which has very large tuberous and farinaceous rootstocks, formerly used by the Indians for a sort of bread, and by the negroes as an ingredient in making beer; -- called also bamboo brier and China brier..

Swingle :: Swingle (v. t.) To clean, as flax, by beating it with a swingle, so as to separate the coarse parts and the woody substance from it; to scutch..

Tease :: Tease (v. t.) To comb or card, as wool or flax..

Cladophyll :: Cladophyll (n.) A special branch, resembling a leaf, as in the apparent foliage of the broom (Ruscus) and of the common cultivated smilax (Myrsiphillum)..

Diurnal :: Diurnal (a.) Daily; recurring every day; performed in a day; going through its changes in a day; constituting the measure of a day; as, a diurnal fever; a diurnal task; diurnal aberration, or diurnal parallax; the diurnal revolution of the earth..

Lint :: Lint (n.) Flax.

Slack :: Slack (superl.) Lax; not tense; not hard drawn; not firmly extended; as, a slack rope..

Relaxing :: Relaxing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Rela.

Unstrain :: Unstrain (v. t.) To relieve from a strain; to relax.

Stuped :: Stupe (v. t.) Cloth or flax dipped in warm water or medicaments and applied to a hurt or sore.

Comber :: Comber (n.) One who combs; one whose occupation it is to comb wool, flax, etc. Also, a machine for combing wool, flax, etc..

Capsule :: Capsule (n.) a dry fruit or pod which is made up of several parts or carpels, and opens to discharge the seeds, as, the capsule of the poppy, the flax, the lily, etc..

Strabotomy :: Strabismus (n.) An affection of one or both eyes, in which the optic axes can not be directed to the same object, -- a defect due either to undue contraction or to undue relaxation of one or more of the muscles which move the eyeball; squinting; cross-eye..

Flagginess :: Flagginess (n.) The condition of being flaggy; laxity; limberness.

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