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Interlude :: Interlude (n.) A short piece of instrumental music played between the parts of a song or cantata, or the acts of a drama; especially, in church music, a short passage played by the organist between the stanzas of a hymn, or in German chorals after each line..

Traverse :: Traverse (a.) To lay in a cross direction; to cross.

Hotcockles :: Hotcockles (n.) A childish play, in which one covers his eyes, and guesses who strikes him or his hand placed behind him..

Alternant :: Alternant (v. t.) Composed of alternate layers, as some rocks..

Pip :: Pip (n.) One of the conventional figures or spots on playing cards, dominoes, etc..

Depone :: Depone (v. t.) To lay, as a stake; to wager..

Refrigerant :: Refrigerant (a.) Cooling; allaying heat or fever.

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

Impose :: Impose (v. t.) To lay on; to set or place; to put; to deposit.

Statuminate :: Statuette (n.) A small statue; -- usually applied to a figure much less than life size, especially when of marble or bronze, or of plaster or clay as a preparation for the marble or bronze, as distinguished from a figure in terra cotta or the like. Cf. Figurine..

Sportless :: Sportive (a.) Tending to, engaged in, or provocate of, sport; gay; froliscome; playful; merry..

Roundelay :: Roundelay (n.) A dance in a circle.

Duke :: Duke (v. i.) To play the duke.

Tardation :: Tardation (n.) The act of retarding, or delaying; retardation..

Roll :: Roll (n.) To wrap round on itself; to form into a spherical or cylindrical body by causing to turn over and over; as, to roll a sheet of paper; to roll parchment; to roll clay or putty into a ball..

Diazeutic :: Diazeutic (a.) Disjoining two fourths; as, the diazeutic tone, which, like that from F to G in modern music, lay between two fourths, and, being joined to either, made a fifth..

Impose :: Impose (v. t.) To lay on, as the hands, in the religious rites of confirmation and ordination..

String :: String (v. t.) To put in tune the strings of, as a stringed instrument, in order to play upon it..

Better :: Better (n.) One who bets or lays a wager.

Splayfooted :: Splayfoot (a.) Alt. of Splayfoote.

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