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The bristle or beard of barley, oats, grasses, etc., or any similar bristlelike appendage; arista.
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A rooflike cover, usually of canvas, extended over or before any place as a shelter from the sun, rain, or wind.
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A tool or instrument of steel, or of iron with a steel edge or blade, for felling trees, chopping and splitting wood, hewing timber, etc. It is wielded by a wooden helve or handle, so fixed in a socket or eye as to be in the same plane with the blade. The broadax, or carpenter's ax, is an ax for hewing timber, made heavier than the chopping ax, and with a broader and thinner blade and a shorter handle.
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The angle or point of divergence between the upper side of a branch, leaf, or petiole, and the stem or branch from which it springs.
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Feathers connecting the under surface of the wing and the body, and concealed by the closed wing.
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A borosilicate of alumina, iron, and lime, commonly found in glassy, brown crystals with acute edges.
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A self-evident and necessary truth, or a proposition whose truth is so evident as first sight that no reasoning or demonstration can make it plainer; a proposition which it is necessary to take for granted; as, "The whole is greater than a part;" "A thing can not, at the same time, be and not be."
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A straight line, real or imaginary, passing through a body, on which it revolves, or may be supposed to revolve; a line passing through a body or system around which the parts are symmetrically arranged.
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