After-eatage

n.

Aftergrass.

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Heave

v. t.

To throw; to cast; -- obsolete, provincial, or colloquial, except in certain nautical phrases; as, to heave the lead; to heave the log.

Gothicizing

p. pr. & vb. n.

of Gothicize

Remissness

n.

Quality or state of being remiss.

Nimbus

n.

A rain cloud; one of the four principal varieties of clouds. See Cloud.

Lameness

n.

The condition or quality of being lame; as, the lameness of an excuse or an argument.

Quack

n.

A boastful pretender to medical skill; an empiric; an ignorant practitioner.

Reach

v. t.

Hence, to deliver by stretching out a member, especially the hand; to give with the hand; to pass to another; to hand over; as, to reach one a book.

Genian

a.

Of or pertaining to the chin; mental; as, the genian prominence.

Altitude

n.

The perpendicular distance from the base of a figure to the summit, or to the side parallel to the base; as, the altitude of a triangle, pyramid, parallelogram, frustum, etc.

Ranter

n.

One of a religious sect which sprung up in 1645; -- called also Seekers. See Seeker.

Flexanimous

a.

Having power to change the mind.

Use

v. t.

To accustom; to habituate; to render familiar by practice; to inure; -- employed chiefly in the passive participle; as, men used to cold and hunger; soldiers used to hardships and danger.