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Convallamarin :: Convallamarin (n.) A white, crystalline, poisonous substance, regarded as a glucoside, extracted from the lily of the valley (Convallaria Majalis). Its taste is first bitter, then sweet..

Chisley :: Chisley (a.) Having a large admixture of small pebbles or gravel; -- said of a soil.

Gallimaufry :: Gallimaufry (n.) Any absurd medley; a hotchpotch.

Muley :: Muley (n.) A stiff, long saw, guided at the ends but not stretched in a gate..

Pulleys :: Pulleys (pl. ) of Pulle.

Caryopsis :: Caryopsis (n.) A one-celled, dry, indehiscent fruit, with a thin membranous pericarp, adhering closely to the seed, so that fruit and seed are incorporated in one body, forming a single grain, as of wheat, barley, etc..

Salvo :: Salvo (n.) A concentrated fire from pieces of artillery, as in endeavoring to make a break in a fortification; a volley..

Bashaw :: Bashaw (n.) A very large siluroid fish (Leptops olivaris) of the Mississippi valley; -- also called goujon, mud cat, and yellow cat..

Sleid :: Sleid (v. t.) To sley, or prepare for use in the weaver's sley, or slaie..

Boll :: Boll (n.) A Scotch measure, formerly in use: for wheat and beans it contained four Winchester bushels; for oats, barley, and potatoes, six bushels. A boll of meal is 140 lbs. avoirdupois. Also, a measure for salt of two bushels..

Blind :: Blind (a.) Having no openings for light or passage; as, a blind wall; open only at one end; as, a blind alley; a blind gut..

Bleyme :: Bleyme (n.) An inflammation in the foot of a horse, between the sole and the bone..

Volleys :: Volleys (pl. ) of Volle.

Pollock :: Pollock (n.) A marine gadoid fish (Pollachius carbonarius), native both of the European and American coasts. It is allied to the cod, and like it is salted and dried. In England it is called coalfish, lob, podley, podling, pollack, etc..

Sheave :: Sheave (v.) A wheel having a groove in the rim for a rope to work in, and set in a block, mast, or the like; the wheel of a pulley..

Gorge :: Gorge (n.) The groove of a pulley.

Volleyed :: Volleyed (imp. & p. p.) of Volle.

Amazonian :: Amazonian (a.) Of or pertaining to the river Amazon in South America, or to its valley..

Inch :: Inch (n.) A measure of length, the twelfth part of a foot, commonly subdivided into halves, quarters, eights, sixteenths, etc., as among mechanics. It was also formerly divided into twelve parts, called lines, and originally into three parts, called barleycorns, its length supposed to have been determined from three grains of barley placed end to end lengthwise. It is also sometimes called a prime ('), composed of twelve seconds (''), as in the duodecimal system of arithmetic..

Parsley :: Parsley (n.) An aromatic umbelliferous herb (Carum Petroselinum), having finely divided leaves which are used in cookery and as a garnish..

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