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A California sciænoid fish (Cynoscion nobilis); -- called also white sea bass.

a spring, or an explosive gas), attached to an internal- combustion engine, as on an automobile, and used as a means of starting the engine without cranking it by hand.

The cobia. Drill sergeant. (Mil.) See under Drill. -- Sergeant-at-arms, an officer of a legislative body, or of a deliberative or judicial assembly, who executes commands in preserving order and arresting offenders. See Sergeant, 1. -- Sergeant major. (a) (Mil.) See the Note under def. 2, above. (b) (Zoöl.) The cow p…

The West Indian Pithecolobium micradenium, a legiminous tree with a red coiled-up pod.

ot.), an American herb (Scetellaria lateriflora) formerly prescribed as a cure for hydrophobia.

A large fresh-water gobioid fish (Eleotris dormatrix).

lin; the jacksnipe. -- Jack snipe. See Jacksnipe. -- Quail snipe. See under Quail. -- Robin snipe, the knot. -- Sea snipe. See in the Vocabulary. -- Shore snipe, any sandpiper. -- Snipe hawk, the marsh harrier. [Prov. Eng.] -- Stone snipe, the tattler. -- Summer snipe, the dunlin; the green and the common Europe…

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To dignify or honor by ceremonies; to celebrate. Their choice nobility and flowers . . . Met from all parts to solemnize this feast. Milton.

tter a speech, discourse, or harangue; to adress a public assembly formally. Many of the nobility made themselves popular by speaking in Parliament against those things which were most grateful to his majesty. Clarendon.

specified axis. go for a spin take a spin, take a trip in a wheeled vehicle, usu. an automobile.

A gephyrean worm of the genus Thalassema, having a spoonlike probiscis.

Any plant of the genus Euphobia. See Euphorbia. Spurge flax, an evergreen shrub (Daphne Gnidium) with crowded narrow leaves. It is native of Southern Europe. -- Spurge laurel, a European shrub (Daphne Laureola) with oblong evergreen leaves. -- Spurge nettle. See under Nettle. -- Spurge olive, an evergreen shrub (Dap…

the Revolution, the assembly of the three orders of the kingdom, namely, the clergy, the nobility, and the third estate, or commonalty.

Strawy; consisting of straw. Robinson.

esp. when the resistance to flow is the least possible; as, a streamline body for an automobile or airship.

To deprive of material mobility. [Obs.] It is not malleable; but yet is not fluent, but stupefied. Bacon.

osition of cinnamic acid, and by the condensation of acetylene, as a fragrant, aromatic, mobile liquid; -- called also phenyl ethylene, vinyl benzene, styrol, styrene, and cinnamene.

in rank or office; more exalted in dignity; as, a superior officer; a superior degree of nobility.

ercharge; an excessive load or burden; a load greater than can well be borne. A numerous nobility causeth poverty and inconvenience in a state, for it is surcharge of expense. Bacon.