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A person joined to another in some duty or service; a colleague; an associate. Wotton.

The lively representation of any emotion. Wotton.

or towards; a concourse; an influx. The affluence of young nobles from hence into Spain. Wotton. There is an unusual affluence of strangers this year. Carlyle.

A second game; hence, a subsequent scheme or expedient. Wotton. Aftergame at Irish, an ancient game very nearly resembling backgammon. Beau. & Fl.

On the ground; stranded; -- a nautical term applied to a ship when its bottom lodges on the ground. Totten.

A sterile plain, containing an excess of alkali, at the bottom of an undrained basin in an arid region; a playa.

An ally; a confederate. [Obs. & R.] Sir H. Wotton.

A thin kind of cloth made of the wooly hair of the alpaca, often mixed with silk or with cotton.

pots open at both ends, and so formed as to be fitted together, the neck of one into the bottom of another in succession; -- used in the process of sublimation. Ure.

A mass; a heap. [Obs.] Sir H. Wotton.

Something that surrounds or invests; as, air . . . being a perpetual ambient. Sir H. Wotton.

alk. [R.] The princess of whom his majesty had an ambulatory view in his travels. Sir H. Wotton.

Among the ancients, a two-handled vessel, tapering at the bottom, used for holding wine, oil, etc.

Springing back, as the bottom of an anaclastic glass. Anaclastic glass, a glass or phial, shaped like an inverted funnel, and with a very thin convex bottom. By sucking out a little air, the bottom springs into a concave form with a smart crack; and by breathing or blowing gently into the orifice, the bottom, with a li…

Same as Annotto.

the shank at right angles to the arms. -- The anchor comes home, when it drags over the bottom as the ship drifts. -- Foul anchor, the anchor when it hooks, or is entangled with, another anchor, or with a cable or wreck, or when the slack cable entangled. -- The anchor is acockbill, when it is suspended perpendicula…

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used by parasitic species of the series Melanconiales, attacking the bean, grape, melon, cotton, and other plants. In the case of the grape, brown concave spots are formed on the stem and fruit, and the disease is called bird's-eye rot.

The Destroyer; -- a name used (Rev. ix. 11) for the angel of the bottomless pit, answering to the Hebrew Abaddon.

The small hollow curvature given to the top or bottom of the shaft of a column where it expands to meet the edge of the fillet; -- called also the scape. Parker.