Landfall

n.

A sudden transference of property in land by the death of its owner.

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Garnisheeing

p. pr. & vb. n.

of Garnishee

Leguminous

a.

Belonging to, or resembling, a very large natural order of plants (Leguminosae), which bear legumes, including peas, beans, clover, locust trees, acacias, and mimosas.

Gauge

v. t.

To measure or determine with a gauge.

Giallolino

n.

A term variously employed by early writers on art, though commonly designating the yellow oxide of lead, or massicot.

Graduate

n.

To prepare gradually; to arrange, temper, or modify by degrees or to a certain degree; to determine the degrees of; as, to graduate the heat of an oven.

Latitancy

n.

Act or state of lying hid, or lurking.

Recompensive

a.

Of the nature of recompense; serving to recompense.

Laundress

v. i.

To act as a laundress.

Reasonable

n.

Not excessive or immoderate; within due limits; proper; as, a reasonable demand, amount, price.

Reinfectious

a.

Capable of reinfecting.

Unnapped

a.

Finished without a nap.

Achieve

v. t.

To finish; to kill.