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  • Foussa (n.) - A viverrine animal of Madagascar (Cryptoprocta ferox). It resembles a cat in size and form, and has retractile claws.
  • Gait (n.) - Manner of walking or stepping; bearing or carriage while moving.
  • Damn (v. t.) - To condemn; to declare guilty; to doom; to adjudge to punishment; to sentence; to censure.
  • Steal (v. i.) - To withdraw, or pass privily; to slip in, along, or away, unperceived; to go or come furtively.
  • Broach (n.) - The stick from which candle wicks are suspended for dipping.
  • Barbaic (a.) - Of or pertaining to, or resembling, an uncivilized person or people; barbarous; barbarian; destitute of refinement.
  • Practiced (a.) - Experienced; expert; skilled; as, a practiced marksman.
  • Tuning (p. pr. & vb. n.) - of Tune
  • Fractionary (a.) - Fractional.
  • Old (superl.) - Long cultivated; as, an old farm; old land, as opposed to new land, that is, to land lately cleared.
  • Imaginary (a.) - Existing only in imagination or fancy; not real; fancied; visionary; ideal.
  • Heteromyaria (n. pl.) - A division of bivalve shells, including the marine mussels, in which the two adductor muscles are very unequal. See Dreissena, and Illust. under Byssus.
  • Spoffish (a.) - Earnest and active in matters of no moment; bustling.
  • Mugget (n.) - The small entrails of a calf or a hog.
  • Stowing (p. pr. & vb. n.) - of Stow