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NEE |
Originally called |
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GUNSTOME |
A cannon ball; -- so called because originally made of
stone. |
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CARPETBAG |
A portable bag for travelers; -- so called because
originally made of carpet. |
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CANE |
A walking stick; a staff; -- so called because originally
made of one the species of cane. |
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INDIAN |
One of the aboriginal inhabitants of America; -- so called
originally from the supposed identity of America with India. |
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BLONDE |
A kind of silk lace originally of the color of raw silk,
now sometimes dyed; -- called also blond lace. |
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ALABASTER |
A box or vessel for holding odoriferous ointments, etc.;
-- so called from the stone of which it was originally made. |
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POSTIL |
Originally, an explanatory note in the margin of the Bible,
so called because written after the text; hence, a marginal note; a
comment. |
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PINNACE |
A small vessel propelled by sails or oars, formerly
employed as a tender, or for coast defence; -- called originally,
spynace or spyne. |
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CRINOLINE |
A kind of stiff cloth, used chiefly by women, for
underskirts, to expand the gown worn over it; -- so called because
originally made of hair. |
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HOOP |
A quart pot; -- so called because originally bound with
hoops, like a barrel. Also, a portion of the contents measured by the
distance between the hoops. |
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PANDOUR |
One of a class of Hungarian mountaineers serving in the
Austrian army; -- so called from Pandur, a principal town in the region
from which they originally came. |
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ROMANCE |
The languages, or rather the several dialects, which were
originally forms of popular or vulgar Latin, and have now developed
into Italian. Spa... |
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DENARIUS |
A Roman silver coin of the value of about fourteen cents;
the "penny" of the New Testament; -- so called from being worth
originally ten of the pieces called as. |
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LAGER BEER |
Originally a German beer, but now also made in immense
quantities in the United States; -- so called from its being laid up or
stored for some months before use. |
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PARKESINE |
A compound, originally made from gun cotton and castor
oil, but later from different materials, and used as a substitute for
vulcanized India rubber and for ivory; -- called also xylotile. |
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WEATHERCOCK |
A vane, or weather vane; -- so called because
originally often in the figure of a cock, turning on the top of a spire
with the wind, and showing its direction. |
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QUERCITIN |
...idely
distributed in the vegetable kingdom, as is apple-tree bark,
horse-chestnut leaves, etc., but originally obtained by the
decomposition ... |
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QUAKER |
...
Leicestershire, England, about 1650, -- the members of which call
themselves Friends. They were called Quakers, originally, in derision.
See... |
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WILTON CARPET |
...ls,
but differing from it in having the loops cut so as to form an elastic
velvet pile; -- so called because made originally at Wilton, England.... |
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CABBIRI |
Certain deities originally worshiped with mystical
rites by the Pelasgians in Lemnos and Samothrace and afterwards
throughout Greece; -- also c... |
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PANSY |
A plant of the genus Viola (V. tricolor) and its blossom,
originally purple and yellow. Cultivated varieties have very large
flowers of a great... |
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GIN |
... barley, and
flavored with juniper berries; -- also called Hollands and Holland gin,
because originally, and still very extensively, manufacture... |
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BROOM |
...made of the
panicles or tops of broom corn, bound together or attached to a long
wooden handle; -- so called because originally made of the twig... |
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SENIOR |
One in the fourth or final year of his collegiate course at
an American college; -- originally called senior sophister; also, one
in the last y... |