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A name of contempt given to a man who interferes with the duties of women in a household, or who occupies himself with womanish matters. 3. A pear-shaped bottle covered round with straw, in which olive oil is sometimes brought from Italy; -- called

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A name of contempt given to a man who interferes with the duties of women in a household, or who occupies himself with womanish matters. 3. A pear-shaped bottle covered round with straw, in which olive oil is sometimes brought from Italy; -- called by chemists a Florence flask. Bartlett. (more info) such an instrument is also called Bess in the The powerful betty, or the artful picklock. Arbuthnot. 2. Etym:

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  The great band commissural fibers which unites the two cerebral hemispheres. See corpus callosum, under Carpus.
• CALLOW
  1. Destitute of feathers; naked; unfledged. An in the leafy summit, spied a nest, Which, o'er the callow young, a sparrow pressed. Dryden. 2. Immature; boyish; "green"; as, a callow youth. I perceive by this, thou art but a callow maid. Old Play .
• CALLE
  A kind of head covering; a caul. Chaucer.
• ROUNDWORM
  A nematoid worm.
• COVER-POINT
  The fielder in the games of cricket and lacrosse who supports "point."
• ROUNDISH
  Somewhat round; as, a roundish seed; a roundish figure. -- Round"ish*ness, n.
• OLIVERIAN
  An adherent of Oliver Cromwell. Macaulay.
• SHAPE
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• STRAW-CUTTER
  An instrument to cut straw for fodder.
• ROUNDABOUTNESS
  The quality of being roundabout; circuitousness.
• OLIVED
  Decorated or furnished with olive trees. T. Warton.
• COVERLET
  The uppermost cover of a bed or of any piece of furniture. Lay her in lilies and in violets . . . And odored sheets and arras coverlets. Spenser.
• ROUNDFISH
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• OLIVEWOOD
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• ROUND-UP
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• SOMETIMES
  1. Formerly; sometime. That fair and warlike form In which the majesty of buried Denmark Did sometimes march. Shak. 2. At times; at intervals; now and then;occasionally. It is good that we sometimes be contradicted. Jer. Taylor. Sometimes . . .
• COVERCLE
  A small cover; a lid. Sir T. Browne.
• CONTEMPTIBLY
  In a contemptible manner.
• CONTEMPTUOUSLY
  In a contemptuous manner; with scorn or disdain; despitefully. The apostles and most eminent Christians were poor, and used contemptuously. Jer. Taylor.
• CALL
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• GYMNASTICALLY
  In a gymnastic manner.
• MISGROUND
  To found erroneously. "Misgrounded conceit." Bp. Hall.
• MISHAPPEN
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• HYPERCRITICALLY
  In a hypercritical manner.
• SCALLION
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• UNEMPIRICALLY
  Not empirically; without experiment or experience.
• JACKSTRAW
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• SPINDLE-SHAPED
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• RECOVER
  To cover again. Sir W. Scott.
• UNIVOCALLY
  In a univocal manner; in one term; in one sense; not equivocally. How is sin univocally distinguished into venial and mortal, if the venial be not sin Bp. Hall.
• PARABOLICALLY
  1. By way of parable; in a parabolic manner. 2. In the form of a parabola.
• STEREOGRAPHICALLY
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• GROUNDWORK
  That which forms the foundation or support of anything; the basis; the essential or fundamental part; first principle. Dryden.
• DIAMOND-SHAPED
  Shaped like a diamond or rhombus.