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Remission :: Remission (n.) Diminution of intensity; abatement; relaxation.

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

Malaxate :: Malaxate (v. t.) To soften by kneading or stirring with some thinner substance.

Lenitive :: Lenitive (n.) A mild purgative; a laxative.

Oakum :: Oakum (n.) The coarse portion separated from flax or hemp in nackling.

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..

Water-rot :: Water-rot (v. t.) To rot by steeping in water; to water-ret; as, to water-rot hemp or flax..

Relax :: Relax (v. i.) To abate in severity; to become less rigorous.

Codilla :: Codilla (n.) The coarse tow of flax and hemp.

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)..

Emollition :: Emollition (n.) The act of softening or relaxing; relaxation.

Smilax :: Smilax (n.) A delicate trailing plant (Myrsiphyllum asparagoides) much used for decoration. It is a native of the Cape of Good Hope.

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..

Latitude :: Latitude (n.) Room; space; freedom from confinement or restraint; hence, looseness; laxity; independence..

Toadflax :: Toadflax (n.) An herb (Linaria vulgaris) of the Figwort family, having narrow leaves and showy orange and yellow flowers; -- called also butter and eggs, flaxweed, and ramsted..

Flex :: Flex (n.) Flax.

Flaxy :: Flaxy (a.) Like flax; flaxen.

Dodder :: Dodder (n.) A plant of the genus Cuscuta. It is a leafless parasitical vine with yellowish threadlike stems. It attaches itself to some other plant, as to flax, goldenrod, etc., and decaying at the root, is nourished by the plant that supports it..

Osteoclast :: Osteoclast (n.) A myeloplax.

Eventration :: Eventration (n.) A tumor containing a large portion of the abdominal viscera, occasioned by relaxation of the walls of the abdomen..

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