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Seal
·vi To affix one's seal, or a seal. II. Seal ·noun Any aquatic carnivorous mammal of the families P...

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Seal
Commonly a ring engraved with some device (Gen. 38:18, 25). Jezebel "wrote letters in Ahab's name, a...

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seal
time or season ; it is a fine seel for you to come at! spoken ironically to persons coming too late....

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seal
[from the Anglo-Saxon seolh]. The well-known marine piscivorous animal. ...

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Seal
The importance attached to seals in the East is so great that without one no document is regarded as...

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Centre
·vi To be placed in a center; to be central. II. Centre ·noun & ·v ·see <<Center>>. III. Centre ·v...

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centre
(usually CENTER) The division of a fleet between the van and the rear of the line of battle, and b...

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Broad seal
·- The great seal of England; the public seal of a country or state. ...

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Lady's seal
·- The black bryony (Tamus communis). II. Lady's seal ·- The European Solomon's seal (Polygonatum v...

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Seal-brown
·adj Of a rich dark brown color, like the fur of the fur seal after it is dyed. ...

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Solomon's seal
·add. ·- A mystic symbol consisting of two interlaced triangles forming a star with six points, ofte...

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solomon's seal
n. Not the Old World plant,which is of the genus Polygonatum, but the Tasmanianname for Drymophila ...

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harp-seal
The Phoca grœnlandica, a species of seal from the Arctic seas; so called from the form of a dark-bro...

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Centre punch
·add. ·- A punch for punching holes in sheet metal, having a small conical center to insure correct ...

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meta-centre
That point in a ship where a vertical line drawn from the centre of cavity cuts a line perpendicular...

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shifting-centre
See meta-centre. ...

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centre of buoyancy, of displacement , and of immersion, of cavity
, are synonymous terms in naval architecture for the mean centre of that part of a vessel which is i...

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centre of immersion, of displacement , and of buoyancy, of cavity
, are synonymous terms in naval architecture for the mean centre of that part of a vessel which is i...

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centre of displacement, of immersion, and of buoyancy, of cavity
, are synonymous terms in naval architecture for the mean centre of that part of a vessel which is i...

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centre of cavity, of displacement, of immersion, and of buoyancy
, are synonymous terms in naval architecture for the mean centre of that part of a vessel which is i...

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centre of gravity
, or balancing point See gravity, centre of. ...

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centre of motion
See motion (centre of). ...

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gravity, centre of
The centre of gravity of a ship is that point about which all parts of the body, in any situation, b...

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motion, centre of
That point of a body which remains at rest whilst all the other parts are in motion about it: as the...

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angle of the centre
In fortification, the angle formed at the centre of the polygon by lines drawn from thence to the po...

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equation of the centre
The difference between the true and mean anomalies of a planet. ...

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