Jejunity

n.

The quality of being jejune; jejuneness.

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Revetting

p. pr. & vb. n.

of Revet

Rhyme

n.

To make rhymes, or verses.

Acanthopterous

a.

Acanthopterygious.

Havener

n.

A harbor master.

Table

n.

The arrangement or disposition of the lines which appear on the inside of the hand.

Horner

n.

The British sand lance or sand eel (Ammodytes lanceolatus).

Nucleus

n.

An incipient ovule of soft cellular tissue.

Gammoning

n.

The act of imposing upon or hoaxing a person.

Palladian

a.

Of, pertaining to, or designating, a variety of the revived classic style of architecture, founded on the works of Andrea Palladio, an Italian architect of the 16th century.

Gnomon

n.

The space included between the boundary lines of two similar parallelograms, the one within the other, with an angle in common; as, the gnomon bcdefg of the parallelograms ac and af. The parallelogram bf is the complement of the parallelogram df.

Hogherd

n.

A swineherd.

Respondentia

n.

A loan upon goods laden on board a ship. It differs from bottomry, which is a loan on the ship itself.