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

Perivisceral :: Perivisceral (a.) Around the viscera; as, the perivisceral cavity..

Vyce :: Vyce (n.) A kind of clamp with gimlet points for holding a barrel head while the staves are being closed around it.

Circler :: Circler (n.) A mean or inferior poet, perhaps from his habit of wandering around as a stroller; an itinerant poet. Also, a name given to the cyclic poets. See under Cyclic, a..

Circumstant :: Circumstant (a.) Standing or placed around; surrounding.

Fly :: Fly (v. i.) To move or pass swiftly; to hasten away; to circulate rapidly; as, a ship flies on the deep; a top flies around; rumor flies..

Strap :: Strap (n.) A piece of rope or metal passing around a block and used for fastening it to anything.

Whirligig :: Whirligig (n.) Anything which whirls around, or in which persons or things are whirled about, as a frame with seats or wooden horses..

Dooryard :: Dooryard (n.) A yard in front of a house or around the door of a house.

Lock :: Lock (v. t.) To seize, as the sword arm of an antagonist, by turning the left arm around it, to disarm him..

Bogie :: Bogie (n.) A four-wheeled truck, having a certain amount of play around a vertical axis, used to support in part a locomotive on a railway track..

Gyration :: Gyration (n.) The act of turning or whirling, as around a fixed center; a circular or spiral motion; motion about an axis; rotation; revolution..

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

Immure :: Immure (v. t.) To wall around; to surround with walls.

Chock :: Chock (n.) A wedge, or block made to fit in any space which it is desired to fill, esp. something to steady a cask or other body, or prevent it from moving, by fitting into the space around or beneath it..

Profile :: Profile (n.) To shape the outline of an object by passing a cutter around it.

Circumscissile :: Circumscissile (a.) Dehiscing or opening by a transverse fissure extending around (a capsule or pod). See Illust. of Pyxidium.

Hastings Sands :: Hastings sands () The lower group of the Wealden formation; -- so called from its development around Hastings, in Sussex, England..

Nimbus :: Nimbus (n.) A circle, or disk, or any indication of radiant light around the heads of divinities, saints, and sovereigns, upon medals, pictures, etc.; a halo. See Aureola, and Glory, n., 5..

Keckling :: Keckling (n.) Old rope or iron chains wound around a cable. See Keckle, v. t..

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