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A turn or turning; a bend; a curve; flexure; meander; as, the windings of a road or stream. To nurse the saplings tall, and curl the grove With ringlets quaint, and wanton windings wove. Milton.

In a winding manner.

The quality or state of being woody. Evelyn.

The act of winding or wrapping anything with a rope, as a mast.

The quality or state of being wordy, or abounding with words; verboseness. Jeffrey.

t or manner of expressing in words; style of expression; phrasing. It is believed this wording was above his known style. Milton.

Emotion of desire; inclination; velleity. [Obs.] Hammond.

Willingness; desire. [Obs.]

Any one of six metameric hydrocarbons, (CH3)2.C6H3.NH2, resembling aniline, and related to xylene. They are liquids, or easily fusible crystalline substances, of which three are derived from metaxylene, two from orthoxylene, and one from paraxylene. They are called the amido xylenes.

embling pyroxylin, obtained by the action of nitric acid on starch; -- called also nitramidin.

The song of a minstrel; hence, any song. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Inclined to give way, or comply; flexible; compliant; accommodating; as, a yielding temper. Yielding and paying (Law), the initial words of that clause in leases in which the rent to be paid by the lessee is mentioned and reserved. Burrill.

orm of the preposition an (which was used before the vowel sound); as in a hunting, a building, a begging. "Jacob, when he was a dying" Heb. xi. 21. "We'll a birding together." " It was a doing." Shak. "He burst out a laughing." Macaulay. The hyphen may be used to connect a with the verbal substantive (as, a-hunting, a…

A primer for teaching the alphabet and first elements of reading. [Obs.]

The fifth month of the Jewish year according to the ecclesiastical reckoning, the eleventh by the civil computation, coinciding nearly with August. W. Smith.

lating table or frame; an instrument for performing arithmetical calculations by balls sliding on wires, or counters in grooves, the lowest line representing units, the second line, tens, etc. It is still employed in China.

Inability to coördinate muscular actions properly in walking. - - A*ba"sic (#), a.

o the effect that from some formal defect (e.g. misnomer, want of jurisdiction) the proceedings should be abated.

The sounding-board over a pulpit or rostrum.

sex, secluded from the world and devoted to religion and celibacy; also, the monastic building or buildings.