Ryot

n.

A peasant or cultivator of the soil.

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Pagoda

n.

A term by which Europeans designate religious temples and tower-like buildings of the Hindoos and Buddhists of India, Farther India, China, and Japan, -- usually but not always, devoted to idol worship.

Headpiece

n.

An engraved ornament at the head of a chapter, or of a page.

Adoption

n.

The choosing and making that to be one's own which originally was not so; acceptance; as, the adoption of opinions.

Alternate

a.

Distributed, as leaves, singly at different heights of the stem, and at equal intervals as respects angular divergence.

Fay

v. t.

To fit; to join; to unite closely, as two pieces of wood, so as to make the surface fit together.

Rondeletia

n.

A tropical genus of rubiaceous shrubs which often have brilliant flowers.

Leatherback

n.

A large sea turtle (Sphargis coriacea), having no bony shell on its back. It is common in the warm and temperate parts of the Atlantic, and sometimes weighs over a thousand pounds; -- called also leather turtle, leathery turtle, leather-backed tortoise, etc.

Keratome

n.

An instrument for dividing the cornea in operations for cataract.

Gaysome

a.

Full of gayety. Mir. for Mag.

Unbegun

a.

Not yet begun; also, existing without a beginning.

Flagellata

v. t.

An order of Infusoria, having one or two long, whiplike cilia, at the anterior end. It includes monads. See Infusoria, and Monad.

Guild

v. t.

A guildhall.