v. i.
To make a defense; to guard one's self of anything, as against an attack; to give protection or security, as by a fence. →
n.
A genus of flowering plants. Zauschneria Californica is a suffrutescent perennial, with showy red flowers much resembling those of the garden fuchsia. →
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The fronds of certain marine algae used as food, and for making a sauce called laver sauce. Green laver is the Ulva latissima; purple laver, Porphyra laciniata and P. vulgaris. It is prepared by stewing, either alone or with other vegetables, and with various condiments; -- called also sloke, or sloakan. →
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Any one of the mouth appendages of the Arthropoda. They are known as mandibles, maxillae, and maxillipeds. →
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The art or process of reducing gold to extremely thin leaves, by beating with a hammer. →