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Having a covering of bony plates, resembling a cuirass;- said of certain fishes.

Tending to prove the same point to which other evidence has been offered; -- said of evidence.

Characterized by cup shakes; -- said of timber.

Of, pertaining to, or derived from, copper; containing copper; -- said of those compounds of copper in which this element is present in its lowest proportion.

Of, pertaining to, or derived from, copper; containing copper; -- said of those compounds of copper in which this element is present in its highest proportion.

To heal; to restore to health, soundness, or sanity; to make well; -- said of a patient. The child was cured from that very hour. Matt. xvii. 18.

prepare for use by a process of scraping, cleansing, beating, smoothing, and coloring; -- said of leather.

Shortened or reduced; -- said of the distance of a planet from the sun or earth, as measured in the plane of the ecliptic, or the distance from the sun or earth to that point where a perpendicular, let fall from the planet upon the plane of the ecliptic, meets the ecliptic. Curtate cycloid. (Math.) See Cycloid.…

Having the margins only a little curved; -- said of leaves. Henslow.

ving. And teach customs which are not lawful. Acts xvi. 21. Moved beyong his custom, Gama said. Tennyson. A custom More honored in the breach than the observance. Shak.

A fast sailing vessel with one mast, rigged in most essentials like a sloop. A cutter is narrower end deeper than a sloop of the same length, and depends for stability on a deep keel, often heavily weighted with lead.

upwards, whence it is called rabbit's ears. It is also called sow bread, because hogs are said to eat the corms.

Having a variously cut or incised margin; -- said of leaves.

A dome-shaped structure built over relics of Buddha or some Buddhist saint. [East Indies]

her metal, as silver or gold, or by etching, etc., to damask. Damaskeening is is partly mosaic work, partly engraving, and partly carving. Ure.

A sloop or cutter with a jigger on which a lugsail is set.

is life's whole date. Chapman. To bear date, to have the date named on the face of it; -- said of a writing.

Removable, as distinguished from perpetual; -- said of an officer.

A son's wife; a daughter-in-law. And Naomi said, Turn again, my daughters. Ruth. i. 11.

The spirit of the sea; sea devil; -- a term used by sailors. This same Davy Jones, according to the mythology of sailors, is the fiend that presides over all the evil spirits of the deep, and is seen in various shapes warning the devoted wretch of death and woe. Smollett. Davy Jones's Locker, the ocean, or bottom of th…