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Mean :: Mean (n.) Meantime; meanwhile.

Recreant :: Recreant (a.) Crying for mercy, as a combatant in the trial by battle; yielding; cowardly; mean-spirited; craven..

Blazon :: Blazon (n.) Ostentatious display, either by words or other means; publication; show; description; record..

Calorifere :: Calorifere (n.) An apparatus for conveying and distributing heat, especially by means of hot water circulating in tubes..

Mediate :: Mediate (a.) Acting by means, or by an intervening cause or instrument; not direct or immediate; acting or suffering through an intervening agent or condition..

Wing :: Wing (n.) Motive or instrument of flight; means of flight or of rapid motion.

Metagenesis :: Metagenesis (n.) The change of form which one animal species undergoes in a series of successively produced individuals, extending from the one developed from the ovum to the final perfected individual. Hence, metagenesis involves the production of sexual individuals by nonsexual means, either directly or through intervening sexless generations. Opposed to monogenesis. See Alternate generation, under Generation..

Needle :: Needle (n.) A slender rod or wire used in knitting; a knitting needle; also, a hooked instrument which carries the thread or twine, and by means of which knots or loops are formed in the process of netting, knitting, or crocheting..

Channel :: Channel (n.) That through which anything passes; means of passing, conveying, or transmitting; as, the news was conveyed to us by different channels..

Confederacy :: Confederacy (n.) A combination of two or more persons to commit an unlawful act, or to do a lawful act by unlawful means. See Conspiracy..

Mooring :: Mooring (n.) The act of confining a ship to a particular place, by means of anchors or fastenings..

Botanomancy :: Botanomancy (n.) An ancient species of divination by means of plants, esp. sage and fig leaves..

Piteous :: Piteous (a.) Paltry; mean; pitiful.

Explicate :: Explicate (v. t.) To unfold the meaning or sense of; to explain; to clear of difficulties or obscurity; to interpret.

Strait-handed :: Straiten (v. t.) To restrict; to distress or embarrass in respect of means or conditions of life; -- used chiefly in the past participle; -- as, a man straitened in his circumstances..

Intend :: Intend (v. t.) To fix the mind upon (something to be accomplished); to be intent upon; to mean; to design; to plan; to purpose; -- often followed by an infinitely with to, or a dependent clause with that; as, he intends to go; he intends that she shall remain..

Pactional :: Pactional (a.) Of the nature of, or by means of, a paction..

Coak :: Coak (v. t.) To unite, as timbers, by means of tenons or dowels in the edges or faces..

Signify :: Signify (n.) To mean; to import; to denote; to betoken.

Contagion :: Contagion (n.) The act or means of communicating any influence to the mind or heart; as, the contagion of enthusiasm..

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