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VISIT |
Is it after five? Come over! |
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VISITOR |
Five Romans is it, or a guest? |
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VISITS |
Drops by five ... is it serious at last? |
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STRAIGHT |
A hand of five cards in consecutive order as to value; a
sequence. When they are of one suit, it is calles straight flush. |
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LATHE |
Formerly, a part or division of a county among the
Anglo-Saxons. At present it consists of four or five hundreds, and is
confined to the county of Kent. |
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SEQUENCE |
All five cards, of a hand, in consecutive order as to
value, but not necessarily of the same suit; when of one suit, it is
called a sequence flush. |
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BANISTER |
A stringed musical instrument having a head and neck like
the guitar, and its body like a tambourine. It has five strings, and is
played with the fingers and hands. |
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LOQUAT |
The fruit of the Japanese medlar (Photinia Japonica). It is
as large as a small plum, but grows in clusters, and contains four or
five large seeds. Also, the tree itself. |
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DOLPHIN |
The Coryphaena hippuris, a fish of about five feet in
length, celebrated for its surprising changes of color when dying. It
is the fish commonly known as the dolphin. See Coryphaenoid. |
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MONITOR |
...esp., the
Egyptian species (V. Niloticus), which is useful because it devours the
eggs and young of the crocodile. It is sometimes five or six f... |
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TATOU |
...l South
America. It becomes nearly five feet long including the tail. It is
noted for its burrowing powers, feeds largely upon dead animals, and... |
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JEWFISH |
A very large serranoid fish (Promicrops itaiara) of
Florida and the Gulf of Mexico. It often reaches the weight of five
hundred pounds. Its col... |
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WATER MONITOR |
...o two-banded monitor, and
kabaragoya. The name is also applied to other aquatic monitors. ... |
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MADRIGAL |
...or more
parts, set to secular words, but full of counterpoint and imitation,
and adhering to the old church modes. Unlike the freer glee, it is ... |
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RUBLE |
The unit of monetary value in Russia. It is divided into 100
copecks, and in the gold coin of the realm (as in the five and ten
ruble pieces) i... |
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APTERYX |
...hen, with
only short rudiments of wings, armed with a claw and without a tail;
the kiwi. It is allied to the gigantic extinct moas of the same
... |
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COMPOSITE |
Belonging to a certain order which is composed of the
Ionic order grafted upon the Corinthian. It is called also the Roman or
the Italic order,... |
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SCHEMA |
An outline or image universally applicable to a general
conception, under which it is likely to be presented to the mind; as,
five dots in a li... |
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MAJORITY |
The amount or number by which one aggregate exceeds all
other aggregates with which it is contrasted; especially, the number by
which the votes... |
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AMBERGRIS |
A substance of the consistence of wax, found floating in
the Indian Ocean and other parts of the tropics, and also as a morbid
secretion in the... |
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MYZOSTOMATA |
An order of curious parasitic worms found on
crinoids. The body is short and disklike, with four pairs of suckers
and five pairs of hook-bearin... |