Backlash

n.

The distance through which one part of connected machinery, as a wheel, piston, or screw, can be moved without moving the connected parts, resulting from looseness in fitting or from wear; also, the jarring or reflex motion caused in badly fitting machinery by irregularities in velocity or a reverse of motion.

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Fetish

n.

A material object supposed among certain African tribes to represent in such a way, or to be so connected with, a supernatural being, that the possession of it gives to the possessor power to control that being.

Lief

n.

Same as Lif.

Lay

v. i.

To produce and deposit eggs.

Hidebound

a.

Niggardly; penurious.

Grandpapa

n.

A grandfather.

Gastroepiploic

a.

Of or pertaining to the stomach and omentum.

Actinia

n.

A genus in the family Actinidae.

Scholiums

pl.

of Scholium

Nap

n.

Woolly or villous surface of felt, cloth, plants, etc.; an external covering of down, of short fine hairs or fibers forming part of the substance of anything, and lying smoothly in one direction; the pile; -- as, the nap of cotton flannel or of broadcloth.

Scalper

n.

A person who buys and sells the unused parts of railroad tickets.

Helminthology

n.

The natural history, or study, of worms, esp. parasitic worms.

Husked

imp. & p. p.

of Husk