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CAVITY |
Hollow place |
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CELL |
Any small cavity, or hollow place. |
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CAVE |
Any hollow place, or part; a cavity. |
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DISH |
A hollow place, as in a field. |
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CISTERN |
A natural reservoir; a hollow place containing water. |
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SCOOP |
A place hollowed out; a basinlike cavity; a hollow. |
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CAVERN |
A large, deep, hollow place in the earth; a large cave. |
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MUDHOLE |
A hole, or hollow place, containing mud, as in a road. |
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GULF |
A hollow place in the earth; an abyss; a deep chasm or basin, |
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PIT |
The hollow place under the shoulder or arm; the axilla, or
armpit. |
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CAVIN |
A hollow way, adapted to cover troops, and facilitate their
aproach to a place. |
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CRUCIBLE |
A hollow place at the bottom of a furnace, to receive the
melted metal. |
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BASIN |
A hollow place containing water, as a pond, a dock for
ships, a little bay. |
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SOCKET |
Especially, the hollow tube or place in which a candle is
fixed in the candlestick. |
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VENTRICLE |
Fig.: Any cavity, or hollow place, in which any function
may be conceived of as operating. |
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VAT |
A square, hollow place on the back of a calcining furnace,
where tin ore is laid to dry. |
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REGURGITATE |
To throw or pour back, as from a deep or hollow
place; to pour or throw back in great quantity. |
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VOMIT |
Hence, to eject from any hollow place; to belch forth; to
emit; to throw forth; as, volcanoes vomit flame, stones, etc. |
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HOWITZER |
A gun so short that the projectile, which was hollow,
could be put in its place by hand; a kind of mortar. |
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DEPRESSION |
A falling in of the surface; a sinking below its true
place; a cavity or hollow; as, roughness consists in little
protuberances and depressions. |
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HOLE |
A hollow place or cavity; an excavation; a pit; an opening in
or through a solid body, a fabric, etc.; a perforation; a rent; a
fissure. |
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DEN |
A small cavern or hollow place in the side of a hill, or among
rocks; esp., a cave used by a wild beast for shelter or concealment;
as, a lion's den; a den of robbers. |
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BED |
To lay or put in any hollow place, or place of rest and
security, surrounded or inclosed; to embed; to furnish with or place
upon a bed or foun... |