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BESWIKE: To lure; to cheat. [Obs.] Gower.

CAPSQUARE: A metal covering plate which passes over the trunnions of acannon, and holds it in place.

MILLDAM: A dam or mound to obstruct a water course, and raise the waterto a height sufficient to turn a mill wheel.

SEISMOLOGICAL: Of or pertaining to seismology.-- Seis`mo*log"ic*al*ly, adv.

CAPELINE: A hood-shaped bandage for the head, the shoulder, or the stumpof an amputated limb.

WASTE: To damage, impair, or injure, as an estate, voluntarily, or bysuffering the buildings, fences, etc., to go to decay.

PELICAN STATE: Louisiana; -- a nickname alluding to the device on its seal.

INGURGITATION: The act of swallowing greedily or immoderately; that which isso swallowed. E. Darwin.He drowned his stomach and senses with a large draught andingurgitation of wine. Bacon.

FACTOTUM: A person employed to do all kinds of work or business. B.Jonson.

BOARD: The stage in a theater; as, to go upon the boards, to enterupon the theatrical profession.

GOETY: Invocation of evil spirits; witchcraft. [Obs.] Hallywell.

AMIDOL: A salt of a diamino phenol, C6H3(OH)(NH2)2, used as adeveloper.

COPEPODA: An order of Entomastraca, including many minute Crustacea, bothfreshwater and marine.

WITHERITE: Barium carbonate occurring in white or gray six-sided twincrystals, and also in columnar or granular masses.

PISTILLODY: The metamorphosis of other organs into pistils.

PATRONLESS: Destitute of a patron.

LAMENTINGLY: In a lamenting manner.

BRAINED: Supplied with brains.If th' other two be brained like us. Shak.

FISSILE: Capable of being split, cleft, or divided in the direction ofthe grain, like wood, or along natural planes of cleavage, likecrystals.This crystal is a pellucid, fissile stone. Sir I. Newton.

SUBTRIBE: A division of a tribe; a group of genera of a little lower rankthan a tribe.