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An East Indian tree (Averrhoa Carambola), and its acid, juicy fruit; called also Coromandel gooseberry.

turn, as of the eye; direction; look; glance; squint. The cast of the eye is a gesture of aversion. Bacon. And let you see with one cast of an eye. Addison. This freakish, elvish cast came into the child's eye. Hawthorne.

A genus of rodents, including the beaver. See Beaver.

rong, penetrating odor, found in two sacs between the anus and external genitals of the beaver; castor; -- used in medicine as an antispasmodic, and by perfumers.

See Cleavers.

A hollow place in the earth, either natural or artificial; a subterraneous cavity; a cavern; a den.

To keep in slavery; to enslave. And which more blest who chained his country, say Or he whose virtue sighed to lose a day Pope.

An engraver on copper or brass; hence, an engraver of copper plates for printing upon paper.

n around the sides and top of a door, window, or fireplace. The top piece is called the traverse and the side pieces the ascendants.

One apt to change; a waverer. "Fickle changelings." Shak.

Anything worn for its supposed efficacy to the wearer in averting ill or securing good fortune.

A traversing base frame, or movable railway, along which the carriage of a barbette or casemate gum moves backward and forward. [See Gun carriage.]

A piece of timber or an iron barrel traversed with iron-pointed spikes or spears, five or six feet long, used to defend a passage, stop a breach, or impede the advance of cavalry, etc. Obstructions of chain, boom, and cheval-de-frise. W. Irving.

letters, as the initials of a name; a device; a monogram; as, a painter's cipher, an engraver's cipher, etc. The cut represents the initials N. W.

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so that any loss is apportioned between him and the insurance company on the principle of average, as in marine insurance or between other insurers.

tifice and collusion. Atterbury. By the ignorance of the merchants or dishonesty of the weavers, or the collusion of both, the ware was bad and the price excessive. Swift.

the equinoctial line He circled; four times crossed the car of night From pole to pole, traversing each colure. Milton.

sion or exercise of authority. Command and force may often create, but can never cure, an aversion. Locke.

Complimentary; courteous. [Obs.] Shak. Complemental air (Physiol.), the air (averaging 100 cubic inches) which can be drawn into the lungs in addition to the tidal air, by the deepest possible inspiration. -- Complemental males (Zoöl.), peculiar small males living parasitically on the ordinary hermaphrodite individual…