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nd his mouth calleth for strokes. Prov. xviii. 6. He entered and won the whole kingdom of Naples without striking a stroke. Bacon.

t. We submit that a wooden spoon of our day would not be justified in calling Galileo and Napier blockheads because they never heard of the differential calculus. Macaulay.

A napkin or handkerchief. [Obs. or R.] Wyclif. R. Browning.

To stratch, as cloth, for the purpose of raising a nap; teasel.

d with stiff, prickly, hooked bracts. This flower head, when dried, is used for raising a nap on woolen cloth.

One who uses teasels for raising a nap on cloth. [Written also teaseller, teasler.]

A verse or line consisting of four measures, that is, in iambic, trochaic, and anapestic verse, of eight feet; in other kinds of verse, of four feet.

it became master of all Prussia, Livonia, and Pomerania. In its decay it was abolished by Napoleon; but it has been revived as an honorary order.

A double thiophene nucleus, C6H4S2, analogous to thionaphthene, and the base of a large series of compounds. [Written also thiophtene.]

Worn to the naked thread; having the nap worn off; threadbare clothes. "A threadbare cope." Chaucer.

A game in which the object is to snap small disks of bone, ivory, or the like, from a flat surface, as of a table, into a small cup or basket; --called also tiddlywinks. [U. S.]

The closely matted hair or downy nap covering the leaves or stems of some plants.

A silk fabric formerly in use, having a nap or pile. [Written also tuft-taffeta.]

hy, roundish, or somewhat conical, root of a cruciferous plant (Brassica campestris, var. Napus); also, the plant itself. [Formerly written also turnep.] Swedish turnip (Bot.), a kind of turnip. See Ruta-baga. -- Turnip flea (Zoöl.), a small flea-beetle (Haltica, or Phyllotreta, striolata), which feeds upon the turnip…

Form or character impressed; style; semblance. Thy father bears the type of king of Naples. Shak.

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Not considered or attended to; not regarded; inconsiderable; trifling. A snapper-up of unconsidered trifles. Shak.

g occurring or done in the afternoon; esp., an afternoon meal; supper; also, an afternoon nap; a siesta. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.] Another great supper, or undermeal, was made ready for them, coming home from ditching and plowing. Withals (1608). I think I am furnished with Cattern [Catharine] pears for one undermeal. B. Jo…

A silk fabric, having a short, close nap of erect threads. Inferior qualities are made with a silk pile on a cotton or linen back.

The fine shag or nap of velvet; a piece of velvet; velvet goods.