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666 words match “HOOK”

MYZOSTOMATA n.
on crinoids. The body is short and disklike, with four pairs of suckers and five pairs of hook-bearing parapodia on the under side.
NAUGHT a.
house; begone, away! All will be naught else. Shak. Things naught and things indifferent. Hooker.
NEEDLE n.
A slender rod or wire used in knitting; a knitting needle; also, a hooked instrument which carries the thread or twine, and by means of which knots or loops are formed in the process of netting, knitting, or crocheting.
NEREIS n.
of eyes, antennæ, four pairs of tentacles, and a protrusile pharynx, armed with a pair of hooked jaws.
NERVATION n.
n, are frail characters if employed alone for the determination of existing genera. J. D. Hooker.
NOCIVE a.
Hurtful; injurious. [R.] Hooker.
NOCTURN n.
lter was divided, each consisting of nine psalms, designed to be used at a night service. Hook.
NOTE n.
rtain to the visible body of the church, they have also the notes of external profession. Hooker. She [the Anglican church] has the note of possession, the note of freedom from party titles,the note of life -- a tough life and a vigorous. J. H. Newman. What a note of youth, of imagination, of impulsive eagerness, there…
NOTWITHSTANDING adv.
wisdom of God himself, are, notwithstanding, to know that the same had an end in Christ. Hooker. You did wisely and honestly too, notwithstanding She is the greatest beauty in the parish. Fielding. Notwithstanding that, notwithstanding; although. These days were ages to him, notwithstanding that he was basking in the…
NOURISH v.
to foster; as, to nourish rebellion; to nourish the virtues. "Nourish their contentions." Hooker.
NOURISHMENT n.
t which serves to nourish; nutriment; food. Learn to seek the nourishment of their souls. Hooker.
NUZZLE v.
To go with head poised like a swine, with nose down. Sir Roger shook his ears, and nuzzled along. Arbuthnot.
OBDURATE a.
custom of evil makes the heart obdurate against whatsoever instructions to the contrary. Hooker. Art thou obdurate, flinty, hard as steel, Nay, more than flint, for stone at rain relenteth Shak.
OBJECT v.
eat and harmful can not prove. Fairfax. Some strong impediment or other objecting itself. Hooker. Pallas to their eyes The mist objected, and condensed the skies. Pope.
OBSERVANT n.
One who observes forms and rules. [Obs.] Hooker.
OBUNCOUS a.
Hooked or crooked in an extreme degree. Maunder.
OFFERER n.
One who offers; esp., one who offers something to God in worship. Hooker.
OFTENNESS n.
Frequency. Hooker.
ONENESS n.
one; singleness in number; individuality; unity. Our God is one, or rather very oneness. Hooker.
ORDER n.
uthority to establish that for an order at one time which at another time it may abolish. Hooker.
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