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BALEEN |
Whalebone |
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FIN |
A blade of whalebone. |
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BONE |
To put whalebone into; as, to bone stays. |
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MYSTICETE |
Any right whale, or whalebone whale. See Cetacea. |
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STAY |
A corset stiffened with whalebone or other material, worn by
women, and rarely by men. |
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BODICE |
A kind of under waist stiffened with whalebone, etc., worn
esp. by women; a corset; stays. |
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RIGHT WHALE |
The bowhead, Arctic, or Greenland whale (Balaena
mysticetus), from whose mouth the best whalebone is obtained. |
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PANNIER |
A framework of steel or whalebone, worn by women to expand
their dresses; a kind of bustle. |
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BUSK |
A thin, elastic strip of metal, whalebone, wood, or other
material, worn in the front of a corset. |
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PROBANG |
A slender elastic rod, as of whalebone, with a sponge on
the end, for removing obstructions from the esophagus, etc. |
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FLEXIBILITY |
The state or quality of being flexible; flexibleness;
pliancy; pliability; as, the flexibility of strips of hemlock, hickory,
whalebone or metal, or of rays of light. |
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HOOP |
A circle, or combination of circles, of thin whalebone,
metal, or other elastic material, used for expanding the skirts of
ladies' dresses; crinoline; -- used chiefly in the plural. |
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RORQUAL |
A very large North Atlantic whalebone whale (Physalus
antiquorum, or Balaenoptera physalus). It has a dorsal fin, and strong
longitudinal folds on the throat and belly. Called also razorback. |
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WHALE |
...ly any one
of the large species, some of which become nearly one hundred feet
long. Whales are hunted chiefly for their oil and baleen, or whale... |
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SULPHUR-BOTTOM |
A very large whalebone whale of the genus
Sibbaldius, having a yellowish belly; especially, S. sulfureus of the
North Pacific, and S. borealis ... |
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UMBRELLA |
...cotton, or other fabric, extended on strips of
whalebone, steel, or other elastic material, inserted, or fastened to,
a rod or stick by means of... |