Ring

n.

A circle, or a circular line, or anything in the form of a circular line or hoop.

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Affine

v. t.

To refine.

Globule

n.

A little pill or pellet used by homeopathists.

Familiar

a.

Of or pertaining to a family; domestic.

Alitrunk

n.

The segment of the body of an insect to which the wings are attached; the thorax.

Nail

n.

the horny scale of plate of epidermis at the end of the fingers and toes of man and many apes.

Hundreder

n.

An inhabitant or freeholder of a hundred.

Vacancy

n.

An open or unoccupied space between bodies or things; an interruption of continuity; chasm; gap; as, a vacancy between buildings; a vacancy between sentences or thoughts.

Fraction

n.

One or more aliquot parts of a unit or whole number; an expression for a definite portion of a unit or magnitude.

Fieldfare

n.

a small thrush (Turdus pilaris) which breeds in northern Europe and winters in Great Britain. The head, nape, and lower part of the back are ash-colored; the upper part of the back and wing coverts, chestnut; -- called also fellfare.

Retractor

n.

One who, or that which, retracts.

Macaroon

n.

A small cake, composed chiefly of the white of eggs, almonds, and sugar.

Hack

n.

Unburned brick or tile, stacked up for drying.