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- Almost horizontal entrance to a mine, or a drainage or ventilation shaft.
- Under Saxon law, a guest who had stayed three nights and was then considered one of the family.
- An additional name usually describing some exploit.
- The universal solvent vainly sought by alchemists.
- Without liquid, such as a barometer that works with a metal disk instead of a tube of liquid.
- To drink often or much; to eat or drink noisily.
- A small river usually acting as a boundary.
- Turning white or greyish, as hair.
- The person who performs a public beheading, hanging, electrocution, etc. A butcher.
- An external angle of a wall, also spelled quoin.
- The natural singing voice, the opposite of a falsetto.
- Freed from wrinkles, smoothed; smooth.
- Strip the covering off of, usually said of removing blubber from whales.
- A 16th century neck ruff, named after a defense composed of pointed sticks.
- Fragile, easily destroyed, especially by crumbling.
- Raw egg white used in sizing or glazing.
- A short line used for shading in drawing or etching. Short lines on maps to indicate slopes and their direction.
- To gape or cause a gap; to cause a hiatus.
- The sea or atmosphere when especially smooth, clear or transparent.
- To put up as a security; to mortgage or pawn.
- Opposite of cameo, a hollowed out design used for relief work.
- A trick or sudden movement; to dodge, duck or hide.
- Faithful, loyal and true; legal, lawful and just.
- To grind into a smooth, fine powder; to make smooth, to polish.
- A large, grassy almost treeless plain, escpially those in Latin America and the southwestern U.S.
- To lead or go astray; to be anxious or puzzled.
- A handful; a subdivision of a Roman legion consisting of 60 or 120 men.
- To worry, confuse distract; to smother, crowd.
- A crashing bore; a buffoon.
- Having a large nose or a keen sense of smell.
- To irritate with obsessive repitition.
- To bag or sag; to hang loosely.
- A flourish before or after a signature intended to prevent forgery.
- Open or expanded; spreading like tree branches.
- A thief, pirate or pirate ship.
- Ingenuity, cunning; a trick or stratagem.
- A root or point of origin. The base number in a number system.
- Full of grooves, fissures, cracks, chinks or clefts.
- A roll of coins; in dressmaking, folds or pipings that recall rolls of coins.
- A stilt or crutch; a kind of bridle bit.
- To perforate or pierce; to make vibrate.
- A cloverleaf or any three lobed leaf or flower.
- A cylindical saw, turned like a bit, used to perforate the skull for surgery.
- Strange, odd; extraordinary; so unusual as to be surprising.
- Bowlegged or knock-kneed.
- To beat or whip.
- Of, pertaining to or resembling a wasp.
- Having the shape of a sword.
- Responding easily; manageable, said of a vessel; bright, lively, quick.
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