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1,659 words match “ASSE”

CHASSE-CAFE n.
See Chasse, n., above.
CHASSE-MAREE n.
A French coasting lugger.
CHASSELAS n.
A white grape, esteemed for the table.
CHASSEPOT n.
A kind of breechloading, center-fire rifle, or improved needle gun.
CHASSEUR n. 2 definitions
An attendant upon persons of rank or wealth, wearing a plume and sword. The great chasseur who had announced her arrival. W. Irving.
CO-ASSESSOR n.
A joint assessor.
COMPASSED a.
Rounded; arched. [Obs.] She came . . . into the compassed window. Shak.
COMPASSES n.
An instrument for describing circles, measuring figures, etc., consisting of two, or (rarely) more, pointed branches, or legs, usually joined at the top by a rivet on which they move.
CORNO DI BASSETTO n.
A tenor clarinet; -- called also basset horn, and sometimes confounded with the English horn, which is a tenor oboe.
CREVASSE n. 2 definitions
A deep crevice or fissure, as in embankment; one of the clefts or fissure by which the mass of a glacier is divided.
CUIRASSED a. 2 definitions
Wearing a cuirass.
CULASSE n.
The lower faceted portion of a brilliant-cut diamond.
CURTAL AX; CURTLE AX; CURTELASSE n.
A corruption of Cutlass.
DAMASSE a. 2 definitions
Woven like damask. -- n.
DECULASSEMENT; DECULASSMENT n.
An accidental blowing off of, or other serious damage to, the breechblock of a gun; also, a removal of the breechblock for the purpose of disabling the gun.
DEMI-TASSE n.
A small cup for, or of, black coffee.
DISASSENT v. 2 definitions
To dissent. [Obs.]
DISASSENTER n.
One who disassents; a dissenter. [Obs.] State Trials (1634).
FILASSE n.
Vegetable fiber, as jute or ramie, prepared for manufacture.
FOUGADE; FOUGASSE n.
A small mine, in the form of a well sunk from the surface of the ground, charged with explosive and projectiles. It is made in a position likely to be occupied by the enemy.
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