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The Muse who presided over the choral song and the dance, especially the latter.

Of or pertaining to Terpsichore; of or pertaining to dancing.

A surface or organ bearing a theca, or covered with thecæ.

An apparatus for conveying heat, as a case containing material which retains its heat for a considerable period.

The special cell in red algæ which produces or bears a trichogyne. See Illust. of Trichogyne.

Bugleweed.

To corrupt by lewd intercourse; to make a whore of; to debauch. [R.] Congreve.

The sin of worshiping idols; idolatry. O Ephraim, thou committest whoredom, and Israel is defiled; they will not . . . turn unto their God. Hos. v. 3, 4.

A man who practices lewdness; a lecher; a whoremonger.

Having the character of a whoremaster; lecherous; libidinous.

A whoremaster; a lecher; a man who frequents the society of whores.

A bastard; colloquially, a low, scurvy fellow; -- used generally in contempt, or in coarse humor. Also used adjectively. [Archaic] Shak.

Cast down; low-lying. [Obs.] From the safe shore their floating carcasses And broken chariot wheels; so thick bestrown Abject and lost lay these, covering the flood. Milton.

-- To haul the tacks aboard, to set the courses. -- To keep the land aboard, to hug the shore. -- To lay (a ship) aboard, to place one's own ship close alongside of (a ship) for fighting.

ottom of the sea in describing its plants, animals, etc. It is the one furthest from the shore, embracing all beyond one hundred fathoms deep. Hence, abyssal animals, plants, etc.

To adjoin; to lie alongside. [Obs.] "The shores which to the sea accost." Spenser.

On land; to the land; ashore. "Cast aland." Sir P. Sidney.

d trioxide of antimony. It was formerly used in medicine as an emetic, purgative, and diaphoretic.

or to the citizens or subjects thereof; foreign; as, alien subjects, enemies, property, shores.

Wash or flow of water against the shore or bank.