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Brownie :: Brownie (n.) An imaginary good-natured spirit, who was supposed often to perform important services around the house by night, such as thrashing, churning, sweeping..

Cyclobranchiate :: Cyclobranchiate (a.) Having the gills around the margin of the body, as certain limpets..

Impluvium :: Impluvium (n.) In Roman dwellings, a cistern or tank, set in the atrium or peristyle to recieve the water from the roof, by means of the compluvium; generally made ornamental with flowers and works of art around its birm..

Dolphin :: Dolphin (n.) A permanent fender around a heavy boat just below the gunwale.

Ferret-eye :: Ferret-eye (n.) The spur-winged goose; -- so called from the red circle around the eyes.

Whip :: Whip (v. i.) To move nimbly; to start or turn suddenly and do something; to whisk; as, he whipped around the corner..

Torquate :: Torquate (a.) Collared; having a torques, or distinct colored ring around the neck..

Center :: Center (n.) A principal or important point of concentration; the nucleus around which things are gathered or to which they tend; an object of attention, action, or force; as, a center of attaction..

Cast :: Cast (v. i.) To turn the head of a vessel around from the wind in getting under weigh.

Serpula :: Serpula (n.) Any one of numerous species of tubicolous annelids of the genus Serpula and allied genera of the family Serpulidae. They secrete a calcareous tube, which is usually irregularly contorted, but is sometimes spirally coiled. The worm has a wreath of plumelike and often bright-colored gills around its head, and usually an operculum to close the aperture of its tube when it retracts..

Zone :: Zone (n.) A band or stripe extending around a body.

Trim :: Trim (n.) The lighter woodwork in the interior of a building; especially, that used around openings, generally in the form of a molded architrave, to protect the plastering at those points..

Circinate :: Circinate (v. t.) To make a circle around; to encompass.

Irradiation :: Irradiation (n.) The apparent enlargement of a bright object seen upon a dark ground, due to the fact that the portions of the retina around the image are stimulated by the intense light; as when a dark spot on a white ground appears smaller, or a white spot on a dark ground larger, than it really is, esp. when a little out of focus..

Circumdenudation :: Circumdenudation (n.) Denudation around or in the neighborhood of an object.

Around :: Around (adv.) Near; in the neighborhood; as, this man was standing around when the fight took place..

Tenon :: Tenon (n.) A projecting member left by cutting away the wood around it, and made to insert into a mortise, and in this way secure together the parts of a frame; especially, such a member when it passes entirely through the thickness of the piece in which the mortise is cut, and shows on the other side. Cf. Tooth, Tusk..

Perivascular :: Perivascular (a.) Around the blood vessels; as, perivascular lymphatics..

Flower :: Flower (n.) Ornamental type used chiefly for borders around pages, cards, etc..

Disk :: Disk (n.) A part of the receptacle enlarged or expanded under, or around, or even on top of, the pistil..

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