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Characterized by asseveration; asserting positively.

Asseverative.

One who amasses.

An instrument of horn used for collecting painters' colors on the stone in the process of grinding.

A spear used by tribes in South Africa as a missile and for stabbing, a kind of light javelin.

Sugar cane, as it

ice. Some dress, some dance, some play, not to forget Your piquet parties, and your dear basset. Rowe.

An instrument blown with a reed, and resembling a clarinet, but of much greater compass, embracing nearly four octaves.

A small kind of hound with a long body and short legs, used as an earth dog.

The upward direction of a vein in a mine; the emergence of a stratum at the surface.

A tenor or small bass viol.

A spotted European fish of the genus Lucioperca, resembling a perch.

See Brassart.

One who canvasses.

Broken paper; the outside quires of a ream.

A small war club, esp. of savages; -- so called because of its supposed use in crushing the skull.

igment of varying permanence, consisting of impure lignite. It was found originally near Cassel (now Kassel), Germany.

A small round dish with a handle, usually of porcelain.

Same as Seggar.

A movement in dancing, as across or to the right or left.