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WIDEST |
Broadest |
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OVATE |
Shaped like an egg, with the lower extremity broadest. |
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MIDSHIPS |
The timbers at the broadest part of the vessel. |
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SUSCEPTIBILITY |
Specifically, capacity for deep feeling or
emotional excitement; sensibility, in its broadest acceptation;
impressibility; sensitiveness. |
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PILE |
One of the ordinaries or subordinaries having the form of a
wedge, usually placed palewise, with the broadest end uppermost. |
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SUBOVATE |
Nearly in the form of an egg, or of the section of an
egg, but having the inferior extremity broadest; nearly ovate. |
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BILGE |
That part of a ship's hull or bottom which is broadest and
most nearly flat, and on which she would rest if aground. |
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ANGLO-SAXON |
One of the race or people who claim descent from the
Saxons, Angles, or other Teutonic tribes who settled in England; a
person of English descent in its broadest sense. |
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NUTRITION |
In the broadest sense, a process or series of processes
by which the living organism as a whole (or its component parts or
organs) is maintained in its normal condition of life and growth. |
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TOUCH |
The broadest part of a plank worked top and but (see Top and
but, under Top, n.), or of one worked anchor-stock fashion (that is,
tapered from ... |
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SHOVELER |
A river duck (Spatula clypeata), native of Europe and
America. It has a large bill, broadest towards the tip. The male is
handsomely variegated... |