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  • Pocket (n.) - A hole or space covered by a movable piece of board, as in a floor, boxing, partitions, or the like.
  • Ecstasy (n.) - A state which consists in total suspension of sensibility, of voluntary motion, and largely of mental power. The body is erect and inflexible; the pulsation and breathing are not affected.
  • Urbicolous (a.) - Of or pertaining to a city; urban.
  • Ours (pl. ) - of I
  • Quadrille (n.) - A game played by four persons with forty cards, being the remainder of an ordinary pack after the tens, nines, and eights are discarded.
  • Anathematism (n.) - Anathematization.
  • South (v. i.) - To come to the meridian; to cross the north and south line; -- said chiefly of the moon; as, the moon souths at nine.
  • Multiplication (n.) - The process of repeating, or adding to itself, any given number or quantity a certain number of times; commonly, the process of ascertaining by a briefer computation the result of such repeated additions; also, the rule by which the operation is performed; -- the reverse of division.
  • Botcher (n.) - A clumsy or careless workman; a bungler.
  • Faction (n.) - One of the divisions or parties of charioteers (distinguished by their colors) in the games of the circus.
  • Kitten (n.) - A young cat.
  • Strap (n.) - A narrow strip of anything, as of iron or brass.
  • Flash (v. t.) - To cover with a thin layer, as objects of glass with glass of a different color. See Flashing, n., 3 (b).
  • Republisher (n.) - One who republishes.
  • Pickerel (n.) - The glasseye, or wall-eyed pike. See Wall-eye.