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Gill

n.

The flesh under or about the chin. →

Rod

n.

A support for a fishing line; a fish pole. →

GnathothecAe

pl.

of Gnathotheca →

Range

v.

A place where shooting, as with cannons or rifles, is practiced. →

Veratrum

n.

A genus of coarse liliaceous herbs having very poisonous qualities. →

Rubiacin

n.

A substance found in madder root, and probably identical with ruberythrinic acid. →

Warp

v. t.

To tow or move, as a vessel, with a line, or warp, attached to a buoy, anchor, or other fixed object. →

Feathering.

p. pr. & vb. n.

of Feather →

Hicksite

n.

A member or follower of the "liberal" party, headed by Elias Hicks, which, because of a change of views respecting the divinity of Christ and the Atonement, seceded from the conservative portion of the Society of Friends in the United States, in 1827. →

Sacrist

n.

A sacristan; also, a person retained in a cathedral to copy out music for the choir, and take care of the books. →

Faradic

a.

Of or pertaining to Michael Faraday, the distinguished electrician; -- applied especially to induced currents of electricity, as produced by certain forms of inductive apparatus, on account of Faraday's investigations of their laws. →

Habituate

a.

Firmly established by custom; formed by habit; habitual. →