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Sciagraphy :: Sciagraphy (n.) The art or science of projecting or delineating shadows as they fall in nature.

Glass-crab :: Glass-crab (n.) The larval state (Phyllosoma) of the genus Palinurus and allied genera. It is remarkable for its strange outlines, thinness, and transparency. See Phyllosoma..

Holland :: Holland (n.) A kind of linen first manufactured in Holland; a linen fabric used for window shades, children's garments, etc.; as, brown or unbleached hollands..

Violine :: Violine (n.) A pale yellow amorphous substance of alkaloidal nature and emetic properties, said to have been extracted from the root and foliage of the violet (Viola)..

Moulinet :: Moulinet (n.) The drum upon which the rope is wound in a capstan, crane, or the like..

Sinapic :: Sinapic (a.) Of or pertaining to sinapine; specifically, designating an acid (C11H12O5) related to gallic acid, and obtained by the decomposition of sinapine, as a white crystalline substance..

Horizon :: Horizon (n.) The unbroken line separating sky and water, as seen by an eye at a given elevation, no land being visible..

Damasse :: Damasse (n.) A damasse fabric, esp. one of linen..

Family :: Family (v. t.) Course of descent; genealogy; line of ancestors; lineage.

Flanker :: Flanker (n.) One who, or that which, flanks, as a skirmisher or a body of troops sent out upon the flanks of an army toguard a line of march, or a fort projecting so as to command the side of an assailing body..

Monstrous :: Monstrous (a.) Extraordinary on account of ugliness, viciousness, or wickedness; hateful; horrible; dreadful..

Vitelligenous :: Vitelligenous (a.) Producing yolk, or vitelline substance; -- applied to certain cells (also called nutritive, or yolk, cells) formed in the ovaries of many insects, and supposed to supply nutriment to the developing ova..

Water :: Water (n.) A wavy, lustrous pattern or decoration such as is imparted to linen, silk, metals, etc. See Water, v. t., 3, Damask, v. t., and Damaskeen..

Blaze :: Blaze (v. t.) To designate by blazing; to mark out, as by blazed trees; as, to blaze a line or path..

Osmund :: Osmund (n.) A fern of the genus Osmunda, or flowering fern. The most remarkable species is the osmund royal, or royal fern (Osmunda regalis), which grows in wet or boggy places, and has large bipinnate fronds, often with a panicle of capsules at the top. The rootstock contains much starch, and has been used in stiffening linen..

Justification :: "Justification (n.) Adjustment of type by spacing it so as to make it exactly fill a line, or of a cut so as to hold it in the right place; also, the leads, quads, etc., used for making such adjustment..

Tape :: Tape (n.) A tapeline; also, a metallic ribbon so marked as to serve as a tapeline; as, a steel tape..

Lineated :: Lineated (a.) Marked longitudinally with depressed parallel lines; as, a lineate leaf..

Shy :: Shy (superl.) Reserved; coy; disinclined to familiar approach.

Opaline :: Opaline (a.) Of, pertaining to, or like, opal in appearance; having changeable colors like those of the opal..

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