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

A great fool; a trifler.

Folly; trifling.

The cutting edge of the bill of a bird.

A kind of open sedan used in Ceylon, carried by a single pole on men's shoulders.

Bread, -- generally a penny roll; the supply of food carried by workmen as their daily allowance. [Slang,Eng.]

Any white regular soldier of the British army; also, such soldiers collectively; -- said to be fictitious name inserted in the models given to soldiers to guide them in filling out account blanks, etc.

A sea bird, the puffin. [Prov.Eng.]

A genus of transparent marine annelids which swim actively at the surface of the sea. They have deeply divided or forked finlike organs (parapodia). This genus is the type of the order, or suborder, Gymnocopa.

To-morrow. [Obs.] Chaucer.

On the day after the present day; on the next day; on the morrow. Summon him to-morrow to the Tower. Shak.

The iron bottom to which grapeshot are fixed.

An inking pad used in lithographic printing.

A rude, wild, wanton girl; a hoiden; a tomboy. Dennis.

A Florida and West Indian grunt (Bathystoma, or Hæmulon, rimator); also, any of various allied species.

A titmouse, esp. the blue titmouse. [Prov.eng.]

e; to habituate, familiarize, or inure; - - with to. I shall always fear that he who accustoms himself to fraud in little things, wants only opportunity to practice it in greater. Adventurer.

Habitual; customary; wonted. "Accustomable goodness." Latimer.

According to custom; ordinarily; customarily. Latimer.

Custom; habitual use. [Obs.] Boyle.