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11/06/2024

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LINKS

A tract of ground laid out for the game of golf; a golfinggreen.

#67879

OBCORDATE

Heart-shaped, with the attachment at the pointed end; inverselycordate: as, an obcordate petal or leaf.

#18190

CUTWORK

An ancient term for embroidery, esp. applied to the earliestform of lace, or to that early embroidery on linen and the like, fromwhich the manufacture of lace was developed.

#18820

WITHOUT

Unless; except; -- introducing a clause.You will never live to my age without you keep yourselves in breathwith exercise, and in heart with joyfulness. Sir P. Sidney.

#30143

CAMMOCK

A plant having long hard, crooked roots, the Ononis spinosa; --called also rest-harrow. The Scandix Pecten-Veneris is also calledcammock.

#45208

UNDERACTOR

A subordinate actor.

#49567

LOBSTER

Any large macrurous crustacean used as food, esp. those of thegenus Homarus; as the American lobster (H. Americanus), and theEuropean lobster (H. vulgaris). The Norwegian lobster (NephropsNorvegicus) is similar in form. All these have a pair of largeunequal claws. The spiny lobsters of more southern waters, belongingto Palinurus, Panulirus, and allied genera, have no large claws. Thefresh-water crayfishes are sometimes called lobsters. Lobstercaterpillar (Zoöl.), the caterpillar of a European bombycid moth(Stauropus fagi); -- so called from its form. Lobster louse (Zoöl.),a copepod crustacean (Nicothoë astaci) parasitic on the gills of theEuropean lobster.

#40237

CHILLI

See Chili.

#81388

UNDERFACTION

A subordinate party or faction.

#78392

CHIDINGLY

In a chiding or reproving manner.

#75442

ATAGHAN

See Yataghan.

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STRAGGLING

from Straggle, v.