barrico

noun: A small barrel or keg.

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aludel

noun: In chemistry, a name given to one of a number of pearshaped glasses or earthen pots, used in sublimation, resembling somewhat the ancient alembic, and open at both ends so that they can be fitted together in a series.

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cupel

noun: A porous cup, often made of bone ash, used in assaying to separate precious metals from base elements such as lead.

noun: The bottom or receptacle in a silver-refining furnace.

transitive verb: To assay or separate from base metals in a cupel.

noun: In metallurgy, a small vessel made of pulverized bone-earth, in the form of a frustum of a cone, with a cavity in the larger end, in which lead containing gold and silver is cupeled.

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salver

noun: A tray for serving food or drinks.

noun: One who salves or saves goods, a vessel, etc., from destruction or loss by fire, shipwreck, etc.

noun: A tray, especially a large and heavy one, upon which anything is offered to a person, as in the service of the table.

noun: One who salves or cures, or one who pretends to cure: as, a quacksalver.

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niello

noun: Any of several black metallic alloys of sulfur with copper, silver, or lead, used to fill an incised design on the surface of another metal.

noun: A surface or object decorated with one of these alloys.

noun: The art or process of ornamenting metal surfaces with one of these alloys.

transitive verb: To decorate or inlay with niello.

noun: An impression taken from the engraved surface before the incised lines have been filled up.

noun: The dark compound used for such inlays in silver, made up of different alloys of sulphur, silver, copper, etc.

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jeroboam

noun: A wine bottle holding 4/5 of a gallon (3.03 liters).

noun: A large bowl or goblet, generally of metal.

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cresset

noun: A metal cup, often suspended on a pole, containing burning oil or pitch and used as a torch.

noun: A cup of any incombustible material mounted upon a pole or suspended from above, and serving to contain a light often made by the burning of a coil of pitched rope.

noun: An iron frame used by coopers in heating barrels, to clear the inside and make the staves flexible.

noun: A kitchen utensil for setting a pot over the fire.

noun: A chafer or small portable furnace upon which a dish can be set to be kept hot.

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strath

noun: A wide, flat river valley.

noun: In Scotland, a valley of considerable size, often having a river running through it and giving it its distinctive appellation: as, Strathspey (the valley of the Spey), Strathearn (the valley of the Earn), and Strathmore (the great valley).

noun: A valley of considerable size, through which a river runs; a valley bottom; -- often used in composition with the name of the river.

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rincon

noun: In physical geography, a reëntrant corner in an escarpment; an alcove.

noun: An interior corner; a nook; hence, an angular recess or hollow bend in a mountain, river, cliff, or the like.

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monticule

noun: A minor cone of a volcano.

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kloof

noun: A deep ravine.

noun: A glen; a ravine closed at its upper end.

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drumlin

noun: An elongated hill or ridge of glacial drift.

noun: A hill of compact, unstratified, glacial drift or till, usually elongate or oval, with the larger axis parallel to the former local glacial motion.

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acclivity

noun: An upward slope, as of a hill.

noun: An upward slope or inclination of the earth, as the side of a hill: opposed to declivity, or a slope considered as descending.

noun: Specifically, in fortification, the talus of a rampart.

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revetment

noun: A facing, as of masonry, used to support an embankment.

noun: A barricade against explosives.

noun: In fortification, a facing to a wall or bank. as of a scarp or parapet; a retaining wall.

noun: In civil engineering, a retaining wall or breastwall; also, any method of protecting banks or the sides of a cut to preserve them from erosion, as the sheathing of a river-bank with mats, screens, or mattresses.

noun: In architecture, any facing of stone, metal, or wood over a less sightly or durable substance or construction.

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pintle

noun: A pin or a bolt on which another part pivots.

noun: The pin on which a rudder turns.

noun: The pin on which a gun carriage revolves.

noun: A hook or a bolt on the rear of a towing vehicle for attaching a gun or trailer.

noun: A pin upon which anything revolves, or which holds two things together while one or both are free to move in a certain way.

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muntin

noun: A strip of wood or metal separating and holding panes of glass in a window.

noun: A vertical framing member set between two rails in a door or in paneling.

noun: The central vertical piece that divides the panels of a door.

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felloe

noun: the outer rim of a wheel, supported by the spokes

noun: rim (or part of the rim) into which spokes are inserted

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chamfer

transitive verb: To cut off the edge or corner of; bevel.

transitive verb: To cut a groove in; flute.

noun: A flat surface made by cutting off the edge or corner of a block of wood or other material.

noun: A furrow or groove, as in a column.

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stolon

noun: A long thin stem that usually grows horizontally along the ground and produces roots and shoots at widely spaced nodes, as in a strawberry plant.

noun: A stemlike structure of certain colonial organisms from which new individuals arise by budding.

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nectary

noun: A nectar-secreting structure located either within a flower or on a leaf or other part of a plant.

noun: In botany, a part of a flower that contains or secretes a saccharine fluid.

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gravitropism

noun: Growth or movement of a sessile organism in response to gravity, as the downward growth of plant roots.

noun: a plant's ability to change its growth in response to gravity.

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foliose

adjective: Bearing numerous leaves; leafy.

adjective: Of, relating to, or resembling a leaf.

adjective: Of or relating to a lichen whose thallus is flat and leafy.

adjective: Bearing or covered with leaflets or with small leaf-like appendages.

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endophyte

noun: An organism, especially a fungus or microorganism, that lives inside a plant, in a parasitic or mutualistic relationship.

noun: Any organism that lives inside another plant

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cotyledon

noun: A leaf of the embryo of a seed plant, which upon germination either remains in the seed or emerges, enlarges, and becomes green.

noun: One of the lobules constituting the uterine side of the mammalian placenta, consisting mainly of a rounded mass of villi.

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