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To castrate, as a fowl.

One who directs work; an overseer. [Sp. Amer.]

A winning of all the tricks at the game of piquet. It counts for forty points. Hoyle.

A long cloak or overcoat, especially one with a hood.

Same as Capoch.

A placing over against; opposite position. [Obs.] F. Potter.

From the beginning; a direction to return to, and end with, the first strain; -- indicated by the letters D. C. Also, the strain so repeated.

A crustacean with ten feet or legs, as a crab; one of the Decapoda. Also used adjectively.

The order of Crustacea which includes the shrimps, lobsters, crabs, etc.

Belonging to the decapods; having ten feet; ten-footed.

The change of vapor into water, as in the formation of rain.

Pertaining to a diapophysis.

The dorsal transverse, or tubercular, process of a vertebra. See Vertebra.

Capable of being converted into vapor, or dissipated by evaporation.

To pass off in vapor, as a fluid; to escape and be dissipated, either in visible vapor, or in practice too minute to be visible.

rocess by which any substance is converted from a liquid state into, and carried off in, vapor; as, the evaporation of water, of ether, of camphor.

Pertaining to, or producing, evaporation; as, the evaporative process.

An apparatus for condensing vegetable juices, or for drying fruit by heat.

An instrument for ascertaining the quantity of a fluid evaporated in a given time; an atmometer.

An hæmapodous animal. G. Rolleston.