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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..

Lap :: Lap (n.) The loose part of a coat; the lower part of a garment that plays loosely; a skirt; an apron.

Playgoer :: Playgoer (n.) One who frequents playhouses, or attends dramatic performances..

Delay :: Delay (v. i.) To move slowly; to stop for a time; to linger; to tarry.

Interlay :: Interlay (v. t.) To lay or place among or between.

Keno :: Keno (n.) A gambling game, a variety of the game of lotto, played with balls or knobs, numbered, and cards also numbered..

Calamist :: Calamist (n.) One who plays upon a reed or pipe.

Veneer :: Veneer (v. t.) A thin leaf or layer of a more valuable or beautiful material for overlaying an inferior one, especially such a thin leaf of wood to be glued to a cheaper wood; hence, external show; gloss; false pretense..

Gewgaw :: Gewgaw (n.) A showy trifle; a toy; a splendid plaything; a pretty but worthless bauble.

Matrimony :: Matrimony (n.) A kind of game at cards played by several persons.

Thimblerig :: Thimblerig (n.) A sleight-of-hand trick played with three small cups, shaped like thimbles, and a small ball or little pea..

Play :: Play (n.) Action; use; employment; exercise; practice; as, fair play; sword play; a play of wit..

Presently :: Presently (adv.) At once; without delay; forthwith; also, less definitely, soon; shortly; before long; after a little while; by and by..

Mosaic :: Mosaic (n.) A surface decoration made by inlaying in patterns small pieces of variously colored glass, stone, or other material; -- called also mosaic work..

Concretion :: Concretion (n.) A rounded mass or nodule produced by an aggregation of the material around a center; as, the calcareous concretions common in beds of clay..

Deplume :: Deplume (v. t.) To lay bare; to expose.

Rack :: Rack (a.) A frame on which articles are deposited for keeping or arranged for display; as, a clothes rack; a bottle rack, etc..

Counterturn :: Counterturn (n.) The critical moment in a play, when, contrary to expectation, the action is embroiled in new difficulties..

Exposition :: Exposition (n.) The act of expounding or of laying open the sense or meaning of an author, or a passage; explanation; interpretation; the sense put upon a passage; a law, or the like, by an interpreter; hence, a work containing explanations or interpretations; a commentary..

Solid :: Solid (a.) Having the constituent parts so compact, or so firmly adhering, as to resist the impression or penetration of other bodies; having a fixed form; hard; firm; compact; -- opposed to fluid and liquid or to plastic, like clay, or to incompact, like sand..

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