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Pure :: Pure (superl.) Separate from all heterogeneous or extraneous matter; free from mixture or combination; clean; mere; simple; unmixed; as, pure water; pure clay; pure air; pure compassion..

Cobwall :: Cobwall (n.) A wall made of clay mixed with straw.

Hit :: Hit (v. t.) To take up, or replace by a piece belonging to the opposing player; -- said of a single unprotected piece on a point..

Playfere :: Playfere (n.) A playfellow.

Malmbrick :: Malmbrick (n.) A kind of brick of a light brown or yellowish color, made of sand, clay, and chalk..

Haemoscope :: Haemoscope (n.) An instrument devised by Hermann, for regulating and measuring the thickness of a layer of blood for spectroscopic examination..

Questmonger :: Questmonger (n.) One who lays informations, and encourages petty lawsuits..

Pun :: Pun (n.) A play on words which have the same sound but different meanings; an expression in which two different applications of a word present an odd or ludicrous idea; a kind of quibble or equivocation.

Bird''s-nest :: Bird's-nest (n.) The nest in which a bird lays eggs and hatches her young.

Packing :: Packing (n.) A thin layer, or sheet, of yielding or elastic material inserted between the surfaces of a flange joint..

Kent Bugle :: Kent bugle () A curved bugle, having six finger keys or stops, by means of which the performer can play upon every key in the musical scale; -- called also keyed bugle, and key bugle..

Psoriasis :: Psoriasis (n.) A cutaneous disease, characterized by imbricated silvery scales, affecting only the superficial layers of the skin..

Mountebank :: Mountebank (v. i.) To play the mountebank.

Show :: Show (n.) Proud or ostentatious display; parade; pomp.

Swordbill :: Sword (n.) One of the end bars by which the lay of a hand loom is suspended.

Underlayer :: Underlayer (n.) One who, or that which, underlays or is underlaid; a lower layer..

Significavit :: Significavit (n.) Formerly, a writ issuing out of chancery, upon certificate given by the ordinary, of a man's standing excommunicate by the space of forty days, for the laying him up in prison till he submit himself to the authority of the church..

Kriegsspiel :: Kriegsspiel (n.) A game of war, played for practice, on maps..

Excommunicate :: Excommunicate (v. t.) To lay under the ban of the church; to interdict.

Enjoin :: Enjoin (v. t.) To lay upon, as an order or command; to give an injunction to; to direct with authority; to order; to charge..

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