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A slender trailing branch which takes root at the joints or end and there forms new plants, as in the strawberry and the common cinquefoil. 7. The rotating stone of a set of millstones. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, runs; a racer. 2. A

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A slender trailing branch which takes root at the joints or end and there forms new plants, as in the strawberry and the common cinquefoil. 7. The rotating stone of a set of millstones. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, runs; a racer. 2. A detective. Dickens. 3. A messenger. Swift. 4. A smuggler. R. North. 5. One employed to solicit patronage, as for a steamboat, hotel, shop, etc.

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  • STONEBRASH
    A subsoil made up of small stones or finely-broken rock; brash.
  • BRANCHIOSTOMA
    The lancelet. See Amphioxus.
  • THEREAGAIN
    In opposition; against one's course. If that him list to stand thereagain. Chaucer.
  • ROTATOR
    that which gives a rotary or rolling motion, as a muscle which partially rotates or turns some part on its axis.
  • THERETO
    1. To that or this. Chaucer. 2. Besides; moreover. Spenser. Her mouth full small, and thereto soft and red. Chaucer.
  • COMMONER
    1. One of the common people; one having no rank of nobility. All below them even their children, were commoners, and in the eye law equal to each other. Hallam. 2. A member of the House of Commons. 3. One who has a joint right in common ground.
  • STONEROOT
    A North American plant having a very hard root; horse balm. See Horse balm, under Horse.
  • THEREBEFORE; THEREBIFORN
    Before that time; beforehand. Many a winter therebiforn. Chaucer.
  • THEREOUT
    1. Out of that or this. He shall take thereout his handful of the flour. Lev. ii. 2. 2. On the outside; out of doors. Chaucer.
  • BRANCHLESS
    Destitude of branches or shoots; without any valuable product; barren; naked.
  • BRANCHING
    Furnished with branches; shooting our branches; extending in a branch or branches. Shaded with branching palm. Milton.
  • COMMONISH
    Somewhat common; commonplace; vulgar.
  • BRANCHIOPODA
    An order of Entomostraca; -- so named from the feet of branchiopods having been supposed to perform the function of gills. It includes the fresh-water genera Branchipus, Apus, and Limnadia, and the genus Artemia found in salt lakes. It
  • BRANCHINESS
    Fullness of branches.
  • COMMONLY
    1. Usually; generally; ordinarily; frequently; for the most part; as, confirmed habits commonly continue trough life. 2. In common; familiary. Spenser.
  • THEREUNDER
    Under that or this.
  • STONE-STILL
    As still as a stone. Shak.
  • ROTATION
    1. The act of turning, as a wheel or a solid body on its axis, as distinguished from the progressive motion of a revolving round another body or a distant point; thus, the daily turning of the earth on its axis is a rotation; its annual motion
  • WHICHEVER; WHICHSOEVER
    Whether one or another; whether one or the other; which; that one which; as, whichever road you take, it will lead you to town.
  • COMMONWEALTH
    Specifically, the form of government established on the death of Charles I., in 1649, which existed under Oliver Cromwell and his son Richard, ending with the abdication of the latter in 1659. Syn. -- State; realm; republic. (more info) 1. A state;
  • PITCHSTONE
    An igneous rock of semiglassy nature, having a luster like pitch.
  • CIRCUMROTARY; CIRCUMROTATORY
    turning, rolling, or whirling round.
  • CAPSTONE
    A fossil echinus of the genus Cannulus; -- so called from its supposed resemblance to a cap.
  • TECTIBRANCHIA
    See TECTIBRANCHIATA
  • CLINKSTONE
    An igneous rock of feldspathic composition, lamellar in structure, and clinking under the hammer. See Phonolite.
  • NUDIBRANCHIATA
    A division of opisthobranchiate mollusks, having no shell except while very young. The gills are naked and situated upon the back or sides. See Ceratobranchia.
  • ABRANCHIAL
    Abranchiate.
  • PYGOBRANCHIA
    A division of opisthobranchiate mollusks having the branchiƦ in a wreath or group around the anal opening, as in the genus Doris.
  • GRINDSTONE
    A flat, circular stone, revolving on an axle, for grinding or sharpening tools, or shaping or smoothing objects. To hold, pat, or bring one's nose to the grindstone, to oppress one; to keep one in a condition of servitude. They might be ashamed,
  • UNCOMMON
    Not common; unusual; infrequent; rare; hence, remarkable; strange; as, an uncommon season; an uncommon degree of cold or heat; uncommon courage. Syn. -- Rare; scarce; infrequent; unwonted. -- Un*com"mon*ly, adv. -- Un*com"mon*ness, n.
  • RUBSTONE
    A stone for scouring or rubbing; a whetstone; a rub.
  • MOORSTONE
    A species of English granite, used as a building stone.
  • PODOBRANCH
    One of branchiƦ attached to the bases of the legs in Crustacea.
  • GRINDLE STONE
    A grindstone.
  • ASPIDOBRANCHIA
    A group of Gastropoda, with limpetlike shells, including the abalone shells and keyhole limpets.
  • LAMELLIBRANCHIATE
    Having lamellar gills; belonging to the Lamellibranchia. -- n.
  • FELLOW-COMMONER
    A student at Cambridge University, England, who commons, or dines, at the Fellow's table.

 

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