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Water Moccasin :: Water moccasin () A venomous North American snake (Ancistrodon piscivorus) allied to the rattlesnake but destitute of a rattle. It lives in or about pools and ponds, and feeds largely of fishes. Called also water snake, water adder, water viper..

Bogtrotter :: Bogtrotter (n.) One who lives in a boggy country; -- applied in derision to the lowest class of Irish.

Bollandists :: Bollandists (n. pl.) The Jesuit editors of the Acta Sanctorum, or Lives of the Saints; -- named from John Bolland, who began the work..

Living :: Living (n.) The state of one who, or that which, lives; lives; life; existence..

Waterfowl :: Waterfowl (n.) Any bird that frequents the water, or lives about rivers, lakes, etc., or on or near the sea; an aquatic fowl; -- used also collectively..

Scrub :: Scrub (n.) One who labors hard and lives meanly; a mean fellow.

Town :: Town (adv. & prep.) The metropolis or its inhabitants; as, in winter the gentleman lives in town; in summer, in the country..

Botfly :: Botfly (n.) A dipterous insect of the family (Estridae, of many different species, some of which are particularly troublesome to domestic animals, as the horse, ox, and sheep, on which they deposit their eggs. A common species is one of the botflies of the horse (Gastrophilus equi), the larvae of which (bots) are taken into the stomach of the animal, where they live several months and pass through their larval states. In tropical America one species sometimes lives under the human skin, and anot

Lifeboat :: Lifeboat (n.) A strong, buoyant boat especially designed for saving the lives of shipwrecked people..

Afford :: Afford (v. t.) To give forth; to supply, yield, or produce as the natural result, fruit, or issue; as, grapes afford wine; olives afford oil; the earth affords fruit; the sea affords an abundant supply of fish..

Sug :: Sufism (n.) A refined mysticism among certain classes of Mohammedans, particularly in Persia, who hold to a kind of pantheism and practice extreme asceticism in their lives..

Cenobite :: Cenobite (n.) One of a religious order, dwelling in a convent, or a community, in opposition to an anchoret, or hermit, who lives in solitude..

Landman :: Landman (n.) A man who lives or serves on land; -- opposed to seaman.

Intervital :: Intervital (a.) Between two lives.

Patristics :: Patristics (n.) That departnent of historical theology which treats of the lives and doctrines of the Fathers of the church.

Earthquake :: Earthquake (n.) A shaking, trembling, or concussion of the earth, due to subterranean causes, often accompanied by a rumbling noise. The wave of shock sometimes traverses half a hemisphere, destroying cities and many thousand lives; -- called also earthdin, earthquave, and earthshock..

Outdweller :: Outdweller (n.) One who holds land in a parish, but lives elsewhere..

Anent :: Anent (a.) Over against; as, he lives anent the church..

Range :: Range (v.) The region within which a plant or animal naturally lives.

Contemporary :: Contemporary (n.) One who lives at the same time with another; as, Petrarch and Chaucer were contemporaries..

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