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Grandam :: Grandam (n.) An old woman; specifically, a grandmother..

Phalaenid :: Phalaenid (n.) Any moth of the family Phalaenidae, of which the cankerworms are examples; a geometrid..

Frigga :: Frigga (n.) The wife of Odin and mother of the gods; the supreme goddess; the Juno of the Valhalla. Cf. Freya.

Scomfish :: Scomfish (v. t. & i.) To suffocate or stifle; to smother.

Cutworm :: Cutworm (n.) A caterpillar which at night eats off young plants of cabbage, corn, etc., usually at the ground. Some kinds ascend fruit trees and eat off the flower buds. During the day, they conceal themselves in the earth. The common cutworms are the larvae of various species of Agrotis and related genera of noctuid moths..

Suffocative :: Suffocation (n.) The act of suffocating, or the state of being suffocated; death caused by smothering or choking..

Phalaena :: Phalaena (n.) A linnaean genus which included the moths in general.

Smoulder :: Smoulder (v. i.) To exist in a state of suppressed or smothered activity; to burn inwardly; as, a smoldering feud..

Homothermic :: Homothermic (a.) Alt. of Homothermou.

Promethea :: Promethea (n.) A large American bombycid moth (Callosamia promethea). Its larva feeds on the sassafras, wild cherry, and other trees, and suspends its cocoon from a branch by a silken band..

Chartreuse :: Chartreuse (n.) A Carthusian monastery; esp. La Grande Chartreuse, mother house of the order, in the mountains near Grenoble, France..

Cankerworm :: Cankerworm (n.) The larva of two species of geometrid moths which are very injurious to fruit and shade trees by eating, and often entirely destroying, the foliage. Other similar larvae are also called cankerworms..

Abalone :: Abalone (n.) A univalve mollusk of the genus Haliotis. The shell is lined with mother-of-pearl, and used for ornamental purposes; the sea-ear. Several large species are found on the coast of California, clinging closely to the rocks..

Nestorian :: Nestorian (n.) An adherent of Nestorius, patriarch of Constantinople to the fifth century, who has condemned as a heretic for maintaining that the divine and the human natures were not merged into one nature in Christ (who was God in man), and, hence, that it was improper to call Mary the mother of Christ; also, one of the sect established by the followers of Nestorius in Persia, india, and other Oriental countries, and still in existence. opposed to Eutychian..

Nonagrian :: Nonagrian (n.) Any moth of the genus Nonagria and allied genera, as the spindleworm and stalk borer..

Zygenid :: Zygenid (n.) Any one of numerous species of moths of the family Zygaenidae, most of which are bright colored. The wood nymph and the vine forester are examples. Also used adjectively..

Grandmother :: Grandmother (n.) The mother of one's father or mother.

Homoiothermal :: Homoiothermal (a.) Maintaining a uniform temperature; haematothermal; homothermic; -- applied to warm-bodied animals, because they maintain a nearly uniform temperature in spite of the great variations in the surrounding air; in distinct from the cold-blooded (poikilothermal) animals, whose body temperature follows the variations in temperature of the surrounding medium..

Smother :: Smother (v. t.) A state of suppression.

Quadragesimals :: Quadragesimals (n. pl.) Offerings formerly made to the mother church of a diocese on Mid-Lent Sunday.

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