Earnest

v. t.

To use in earnest.

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Sea-blubber

n.

A jellyfish.

Range

v. i.

To be placed in order; to be ranked; to admit of arrangement or classification; to rank.

Legge

v. t.

To lighten; to allay.

Gothicism

n.

A Gothic idiom.

Packing

n.

The substance in a stuffing box, through which a piston rod slides.

Helving

p. pr. & vb. n.

of Helve

Fenestrule

n.

One of the openings in a fenestrated structure.

Nithing

n.

See Niding.

Rat

v. i.

In English politics, to desert one's party from interested motives; to forsake one's associates for one's own advantage; in the trades, to work for less wages, or on other conditions, than those established by a trades union.

Abstract

a.

To separate, as the more volatile or soluble parts of a substance, by distillation or other chemical processes. In this sense extract is now more generally used.

Replaceability

n.

The quality, state, or degree of being replaceable.

Hebetating

p. pr. & vb. n.

of Hebetate