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Galley :: Galley (n.) A vessel propelled by oars, whether having masts and sails or not.

Bimetallism :: Bimetallism (n.) The legalized use of two metals (as gold and silver) in the currency of a country, at a fixed relative value; -- in opposition to monometallism..

Cast :: Cast (v. t.) To compute; to reckon; to calculate; as, to cast a horoscope..

Superstition :: Superspinous (a.) Supraspinuos.

Percuss :: Percuss (v. t.) To strike smartly; to strike upon or against; as, to percuss the chest in medical examination..

Assurgency :: Assurgency (n.) Act of rising.

Station :: Station (n.) The fast of the fourth and sixth days of the week, Wednesday and Friday, in memory of the council which condemned Christ, and of his passion..

Rotation :: Rotation (n.) The act of turning, as a wheel or a solid body on its axis, as distinguished from the progressive motion of a revolving round another body or a distant point; thus, the daily turning of the earth on its axis is a rotation; its annual motion round the sun is a revolution..

Settle :: Settle (n.) To plant with inhabitants; to colonize; to people; as, the French first settled Canada; the Puritans settled New England; Plymouth was settled in 1620..

Slug :: Slug (n.) A thick strip of metal less than type high, and as long as the width of a column or a page, -- used in spacing out pages and to separate display lines, etc..

Empty :: Empty (superl.) Unable to satisfy; unsatisfactory; hollow; vain; -- said of pleasure, the world, etc..

Proto- :: Proto- () A combining form prefix signifying first, primary, primordial; as, protomartyr, the first martyr; protomorphic, primitive in form; protoplast, a primordial organism; prototype, protozoan..

Unbark :: Unbark (v. t.) To deprive of the bark; to decorticate; to strip; as, to unbark a tree..

Belch :: Belch (n.) Malt liquor; -- vulgarly so called as causing eructation.

Penetrative :: Penetrative (a.) Acute; discerning; sagacious; as, penetrative wisdom..

Innominate :: Innominate (a.) A term used in designating many parts otherwise unnamed; as, the innominate artery, a great branch of the arch of the aorta; the innominate vein, a great branch of the superior vena cava..

Tent :: Tent (n.) The representation of a tent used as a bearing.

System :: System (n.) Hence, the whole scheme of created things regarded as forming one complete plan of whole; the universe..

Argentous :: Argentous (a.) Of, pertaining to, or containing, silver; -- said of certain silver compounds in which silver has a higher proportion than in argentic compounds; as, argentous chloride..

Aves :: Aves (n. pl.) The class of Vertebrata that includes the birds.

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