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Bat's-wing
·adj ·Alt. of <<Batwing>>. ...

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Coral
·noun The ovaries of a cooked lobster; — so called from their color. II. Coral ·noun A piece of co...

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Coral
Heb. ramoth, meaning "heights;" i.e., "high-priced" or valuable things, or, as some suppose, "that w...

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coral
n. See bats-wing-coral. ...

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coral
A name applied to the hard calcareous support or skeleton of many species of marine zoophytes. The c...

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Coral
(Ezekiel 27:16) A production of the sea, formed by minute animals called zoophytes. It is their shel...

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Wing
·vt To supply with wings or sidepieces. II. Wing ·vt To transport by flight; to cause to fly. III....

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wing
The projecting part of a steamer's deck before and abaft each of the paddle-boxes, bounded by the wi...

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wing-and-wing
A ship coming before the wind with studding-sails on both sides; also said of fore-and-aft vessels, ...

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Coral fish
·- Any bright-colored fish of the genera Chaetodon, Pomacentrus, Apogon, and related genera, which l...

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Coral-rag
·noun ·same·as <<Corallian>>. ...

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coral-fern
n. name given in Victoria to Gleichenia circinata, Swartz, called in Bailey's list Parasol-Fern. Se...

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coral-flower
n. a plant, Epacris (q.v.), Epacris microphylla, R. Br., N.O. Epacrideae. ...

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coral pea
n. another name for the Kennedya (q.v.). 1896. `The Melburnian,' Aug. 28, p. 53: «The trailing sc...

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pea, coral
n. See coral pea. ...

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coral-band
See sand and coral bank or islet. ...

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Sea wing
·- A wing shell (Avicula). ...

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Standard-wing
·noun A curious paradise bird (Semioptera Wallacii) which has two long special feathers standing ere...

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Water wing
·- One of two walls built on either side of the junction of a bridge with the bank of a river, to pr...

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Wing-footed
·adj Having part or all of the feet adapted for flying. II. Wing-footed ·adj Having wings attached ...

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Wing-handed
·adj Having the anterior limbs or hands adapted for flight, as the bats and pterodactyls. ...

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Wing-leaved
·adj Having pinnate or pinnately divided leaves. ...

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Wing-shell
·noun Any pteropod shell. II. Wing-shell ·noun Any marine gastropod shell of the genus Strombus. ·s...

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blue-wing
n. a sportsman's name (as in England)for the bird called the Shoveller (q.v.). ...

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bronze-wing
n. a bird with a lustrousshoulder, Phaps chalcoptera, Lath. Called also Bronze-wing Pigeon. 1790. ...

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wing-wale
A thick plank extending from the extremity of a steamer's paddle-beam to her side; it is also design...

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Stag-horn coral
·- ·Alt. of Stag-horn fern. ...

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sand and coral bank
An accumulation of sand and fragments of coral above the surface of the sea, without any vegetation;...

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Pinero, Sir Arthur Wing
(b. 1855) Dramatist. The Magistrate, Sweet Lavender, The Profligate, The Weaker Sex, Lady Bountiful...

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wing up ballast, to
To carry the dead weight from the bottom as high as consistent with the stability of a ship, in orde...

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