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Defilading :: Defilading (n.) The art or act of determining the directions and heights of the lines of rampart with reference to the protection of the interior from exposure to an enemy's fire from any point within range, or from any works which may be erected..

Mantrap :: Mantrap (n.) A dangerous place, as an open hatch, into which one may fall..

Clastic :: Clastic (a.) Pertaining to what may be taken apart; as, clastic anatomy (of models)..

Mayoress :: Mayoress (n.) The wife of a mayor.

Belfry :: Belfry (n.) A room in a tower in which a bell is or may be hung; or a cupola or turret for the same purpose.

Reserve :: Reserve (n.) A body of troops in the rear of an army drawn up for battle, reserved to support the other lines as occasion may require; a force or body of troops kept for an exigency..

Alternative :: Alternative (n.) An offer of two things, one of which may be chosen, but not both; a choice between two things, so that if one is taken, the other must be left..

Habitable :: Habitable (a.) Capable of being inhabited; that may be inhabited or dwelt in; as, the habitable world..

Frustum :: Frustum (n.) The part of a solid next the base, formed by cutting off the, top; or the part of any solid, as of a cone, pyramid, etc., between two planes, which may be either parallel or inclined to each other..

Hexameter :: Hexameter (n.) A verse of six feet, the first four of which may be either dactyls or spondees, the fifth must regularly be a dactyl, and the sixth always a spondee. In this species of verse are composed the Iliad of Homer and the Aeneid of Virgil. In English hexameters accent takes the place of quantity..

Crannoge :: Crannoge (n.) One of the stockaded islands in Scotland and Ireland which in ancient times were numerous in the lakes of both countries. They may be regarded as the very latest class of prehistoric strongholds, reaching their greatest development in early historic times, and surviving through the Middle Ages. See also Lake dwellings, under Lake..

Comb :: Comb (n.) The thumbpiece of the hammer of a gunlock, by which it may be cocked..

Triable :: Triable (a.) Liable to undergo a judicial examination; properly coming under the cognizance of a court; as, a cause may be triable before one court which is not triable in another..

Axis :: Axis (n.) A straight line, real or imaginary, passing through a body, on which it revolves, or may be supposed to revolve; a line passing through a body or system around which the parts are symmetrically arranged..

Yeast :: Yeast (n.) A form of fungus which grows as indvidual rounded cells, rather than in a mycelium, and reproduces by budding; esp. members of the orders Endomycetales and Moniliales. Some fungi may grow both as a yeast or as a mycelium, depending on the conditions of growth..

Ramayana :: Ramayana (n.) The more ancient of the two great epic poems in Sanskrit. The hero and heroine are Rama and his wife Sita.

Foreknowa-ble :: Foreknowa-ble (a.) That may be foreknown.

Parrel :: Parrel (n.) The rope or collar by which a yard or spar is held to the mast in such a way that it may be hoisted or lowered at pleasure.

Absolvable :: Absolvable (a.) That may be absolved.

Heart-whole :: Heart-whole (a.) With unbroken courage; undismayed.

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