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An inclosed carriage or litter, commonly about eight feet long, four feet wide, and four feet high, borne on the shoulders of men by means of two projecting poles, -- used in India, China, etc., for the (more info) OJavan. palangkan,

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An inclosed carriage or litter, commonly about eight feet long, four feet wide, and four feet high, borne on the shoulders of men by means of two projecting poles, -- used in India, China, etc., for the (more info) OJavan. palangkan, through Prakrit fr. Skr. parya, palya, bed, couch; pari around + a a hook, flank, probably akin

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• INDIANEER
  An Indiaman.
• PROJECTION
  The representation of something; delineation; plan; especially, the representation of any object on a perspective plane, or such a delineation as would result were the chief points of the object thrown forward upon the plane, each in the direction
• POLESTAR
  1. Polaris, or the north star. See North star, under North. 2. A guide or director.
• EIGHTFOLD
  Eight times a quantity.
• PROJECTMENT
  Design; contrivance; projection. Clarendon.
• ABOUT
  On the point or verge of; going; in act of. Paul was now aboutto open his mouth. Acts xviii. 14. 7. Concerning; with regard to; on account of; touching. "To treat about thy ransom." Milton. She must have her way about Sarah. Trollope. (more info)
• BORNE
  Carried; conveyed; supported; defrayed. See Bear, v. t.
• EIGHTEEN
  Eight and ten; as, eighteen pounds.
• INCLOSER
  One who, or that which, incloses; one who fences off land from common grounds.
• EIGHT
  An island in a river; an ait. "Osiers on their eights." Evelyn.
• INDIA RUBBER
  . See Caoutchouc.
• EIGHTIETH
  1. The next in order after seventy-ninth. 2. Consisting of one of eighty equal parts or divisions.
• CARRIAGEABLE
  Passable by carriages; that can be conveyed in carriages. Ruskin.
• COMMONLY
  1. Usually; generally; ordinarily; frequently; for the most part; as, confirmed habits commonly continue trough life. 2. In common; familiary. Spenser.
• EIGHTHLY
  As the eighth in order.
• PROJECTURE
  A jutting out beyond a surface.
• EIGHTSCORE
  Eight times twenty; a hundred and sixty.
• INDIAMAN
  A large vessel in the India trade. Macaulay.
• LITTERATEUR
  One who occupies himself with literature; a literary man; a literatus. " Befriended by one kind-hearted littérateur after another." C. Kingsley.
• CARRIAGE
  carriage, cart, baggage, F. charriage, cartage, wagoning, fr. OF. 1. That which is carried; burden; baggage. David left his carriage in the hand of the keeper of the carriage. 1. Sam. xvii. 22. And after those days we took up our carriages and
• FREIGHT
  1. That with which anything in fraught or laden for transportation; lading; cargo, especially of a ship, or a car on a railroad, etc.; as, a freight of cotton; a full freight. The sum paid by a party hiring a ship or part of a ship for the use
• SLEIGHTLY
  Cunningly. Huloet.
• COUNTER WEIGHT
  A counterpoise.
• TRICHINA
  A small, slender nematoid worm which, in the larval state, is parasitic, often in immense numbers, in the voluntary muscles of man, the hog, and many other animals. When insufficiently cooked meat containing the larvæ is swallowed by man, they
• SLEIGHT
  1. Cunning; craft; artful practice. "His sleight and his covin." Chaucer. 2. An artful trick; sly artifice; a feat so dexterous that the manner of performance escapes observation. The world hath many subtle sleights. Latimer. 3. Dexterous
• ROUNDABOUTNESS
  The quality of being roundabout; circuitousness.
• FLITTERMOUSE
  A bat; -- called also flickermouse, flindermouse, and flintymouse.
• AFFREIGHTER
  One who hires or charters a ship to convey goods.
• EAST INDIAN
  Belonging to, or relating to, the East Indies. -- n.
• SLEIGHTY
  Cunning; sly. Huloet.
• WELTERWEIGHT
  1. A weight of 28 pounds (one of 40 pounds is called a heavy welterweight) sometimes imposed in addition to weight for age, chiefly in steeplechases and hurdle races. 2. A boxer or wrestler whose weight is intermediate between that
• ECHINATE; ECHINATED
  Set with prickles; prickly, like a hedgehog; bristled; as, an echinated pericarp.
• FREIGHTAGE
  1. Charge for transportation; expense of carriage. 2. The transportation of freight. 3. Freight; cargo; lading. Milton.