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Expense of careening ships.

A race course: the ground run over. To go back again the same career. Sir P. Sidney.

A condiment made from the sap of the bitter cassava (Manihot utilissima) deprived of its poisonous qualities, concentrated by boiling, and flavored with aromatics. See Pepper pot.

See Shagreen.

A French coasting lugger.

A piece of oak bolted perpendicularly on the side of a vessel, to aid in drawing down and securing the clew of the mainsail.

The American red squirrel (Sciurus Hudsonius); -- so called from its cry.

See Choreus.

a trochee.

Having all the reefs taken in; -- said of a sail.

One who is conferred with, or who takes part in a conference; as, the conferees on the part of the Senate.

Same as Conferee.

To agree. [bs.] Shak.

To salute mutually. [Obs.]

A nocturnal festivity with which the Australian aborigines celebrate tribal events of importance. Symbolic dances are given by the young men of the tribe, while the women act as musicians.

A tree (Galactodendron utile or Brosimum Galactodendron) of South America, which yields, on incision, a nourishing fluid, resembling milk.

See under Crab.

for public use; esp., one which is brief and comprehensive. In the Protestant system the creed is not coördinate with, but always subordinate to, the Bible. Schaff-Herzog Encyc.

Without a creed. Carlyle.

further into the land than a cove; a recess in the shore of the sea, or of a river. Each creek and cavern of the dangerous shore. Cowper. They discovered a certain creek, with a shore. Acts xxvii. 39.