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Tackle :: Tackle (n.) Apparatus for raising or lowering heavy weights, consisting of a rope and pulley blocks; sometimes, the rope and attachments, as distinct from the block..

Davit :: Davit (n.) Curved arms of timber or iron, projecting over a ship's side of stern, having tackle to raise or lower a boat, swing it in on deck, rig it out for lowering, etc.; -- called also boat davits..

Demission :: Demission (n.) The act of demitting, or the state of being demitted; a letting down; a lowering; dejection..

Lowery :: Lowery (a.) Cloudy; gloomy; lowering; as, a lowery sky; lowery weather..

Nasal :: Nasal (a.) Having a quality imparted by means of the nose; and specifically, made by lowering the soft palate, in some cases with closure of the oral passage, the voice thus issuing (wholly or partially) through the nose, as in the consonants m, n, ng (see Guide to Pronunciation, // 20, 208); characterized by resonance in the nasal passage; as, a nasal vowel; a nasal utterance..

Lowering :: Lowering (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Lowe.

Phaenogamia :: Phaenogamia (n. pl.) The class of flowering plants including all which have true flowers with distinct floral organs; phanerogamia.

Rhizogen :: Rhizogen (n.) One of a proposed class of flowering plants growning on the roots of other plants and destitute of green foliage.

Ramiflorous :: Ramiflorous (a.) Flowering on the branches.

Broccoli :: Broccoli (n.) A plant of the Cabbage species (Brassica oleracea) of many varieties, resembling the cauliflower. The curd, or flowering head, is the part used for food..

Drop :: Drop (n.) A contrivance for temporarily lowering a gas jet.

Cloud :: Cloud (n.) That which has a dark, lowering, or threatening aspect; that which temporarily overshadows, obscures, or depresses; as, a cloud of sorrow; a cloud of war; a cloud upon the intellect..

Checkrein :: Checkrein (n.) A short rein looped over the check hook to prevent a horse from lowering his head; -- called also a bearing rein.

Cineraria :: Cineraria (n.) A Linnaean genus of free-flowering composite plants, mostly from South Africa. Several species are cultivated for ornament..

Thrift :: Thrift (n.) One of several species of flowering plants of the genera Statice and Armeria.

Azalea :: Azalea (n.) A genus of showy flowering shrubs, mostly natives of China or of North America; false honeysuckle. The genus is scarcely distinct from Rhododendron..

Floricultural :: Floricultural (a.) Pertaining to the cultivation of flowering plants.

Honeysuckle :: Honeysuckle (n.) One of several species of flowering plants, much admired for their beauty, and some for their fragrance..

Aaron's Rod :: Aaron's rod () A plant with a tall flowering stem; esp. the great mullein, or hag-taper, and the golden-rod..

Polygala :: Polygala (n.) A genus of bitter herbs or shrubs having eight stamens and a two-celled ovary (as the Seneca snakeroot, the flowering wintergreen, etc.); milkwort..

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