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Cane :: Cane (n.) A local European measure of length. See Canna.

Porgy :: Porgy (n.) Any one of several species of embiotocoids, or surf fishes, of the Pacific coast. The name is also given locally to several other fishes, as the bur fish..

Vellication :: Vellication () A local twitching, or convulsive motion, of a muscular fiber, especially of the face..

Ling :: Ling (a.) A New Zealand food fish of the genus Genypterus. The name is also locally applied to other fishes, as the cultus cod, the mutton fish, and the cobia..

Locality :: Locality (n.) The perceptive faculty concerned with the ability to remember the relative positions of places.

Home :: Home (n.) The locality where a thing is usually found, or was first found, or where it is naturally abundant; habitat; seat; as, the home of the pine..

Maund :: Maund (n.) An East Indian weight, varying in different localities from 25 to about 82 pounds avoirdupois..

Organicism :: Organicism (n.) The doctrine of the localization of disease, or which refers it always to a material lesion of an organ..

Chub :: Chub (n.) A species to fresh-water fish of the Cyprinidae or Carp family. The common European species is Leuciscus cephalus; the cheven. In America the name is applied to various fishes of the same family, of the genera Semotilus, Squalius, Ceratichthys, etc., and locally to several very different fishes, as the tautog, black bass, etc..

Quarter :: Quarter (v. t.) A division of a town, city, or county; a particular district; a locality; as, the Latin quarter in Paris..

Cephalization :: Cephalization (n.) Domination of the head in animal life as expressed in the physical structure; localization of important organs or parts in or near the head, in animal development..

Transportal :: Transportal (n.) Transportation; the act of removing from one locality to another.

Wenlock Group :: Wenlock group () The middle subdivision of the Upper Silurian in Great Britain; -- so named from the typical locality in Shropshire.

Sectionalism :: Sectionalism (n.) A disproportionate regard for the interests peculiar to a section of the country; local patriotism, as distinguished from national..

Localitiees :: Localitiees (pl. ) of Localit.

Chorology :: Chorology (n.) The science which treats of the laws of distribution of living organisms over the earth's surface as to latitude, altitude, locality, etc..

Foreign :: Foreign (a.) Not native or belonging to a certain country; born in or belonging to another country, nation, sovereignty, or locality; as, a foreign language; foreign fruits..

Blackfish :: Blackfish (n.) The black sea bass (Centropristis atrarius) of the Atlantic coast. It is excellent food fish; -- locally called also black Harry.

Smart :: Smart (v. i.) To feel a lively, pungent local pain; -- said of some part of the body as the seat of irritation; as, my finger smarts; these wounds smart..

Zillah :: Zillah (n.) A district or local division, as of a province..

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