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• scutch: (tr.v.) to separate the valuable fibers of [for example, flax] from the wooly parts by beating. (n.) an implement used for scutching.
• limn: (tr.v.) to represent in drawing or painting; to portray in words, describe.
• excrescence: (n.) an abnormal outgrowth, usu. harmless, on an animal or vegetable body; a normal outgrowth, as hair or horns; any disfiguring condition; abnormal growth or increase
• accretion: (n.) an increase by natural growth or by gradual external addition; growth in size or extent; the result of this growth process; an added part, addition; the growing together of separate parts into a single whole; |Law| to increase of property by gradual and natural additions, as of land by alluvion.
• copious: (adj.) large in quantity or number; abundant; plentiful; having or yielding an abundant supply; exhibiting abundance or fullness, as of thoughts or words.
• inflorescence: (n.) a flowering or blossoming; |Botany| the arrangement of flowers on the axis; |Botany| the flowering part of a plant; |Botany| a flower cluster or flowers collectively.
• infructescence: (n.) the fruiting stage of an inflorescence.
• concrescence: (n.) a growing together, as of tissue or embryonic parts; coalescence.
• appress: (tr.v.) to press something close to something else
• laciniate: (adj.) |Botany, Zoology| cut into narrow, irregular lobes; slashed; jagged.
• callosity: (n.) a callous condition; |Botany| a hardened or thickened part of a plant; |Pathology| {also callus} a hardened or thickened part of the skin.
• presentiment: (n.) a feeling or impression that something is about to happen, esp. something evil; a premonition; foreboding.
• whorl: (n.) |Botany| a circular arrangement of like parts, as leaves or flowers, around a point on an axis; one of the turns or volutions of a spiral shell; anything shaped like a coil; one of the central ridges of a fingerprint, forming at least one complete circle; |Textiles| a flywheel or pulley, as for a spindle.
• alluvion: (n.) |Law| a gradual increase of land on a shore or a river bank by the action of water, whether from natural or artificial causes; overflow; a flood.
• alluvium [pl. -a]: (n.) a deposit of sand, mud, etc. formed by flowing water; the sedimentary matter deposited thus within recent times, esp. in the valleys of large rivers.
• multifarious: (adj.) having many different parts, elements, forms, etc.; numerous and varied; greatly diverse or manifold.
• vicarious: (adj.) performed, exercised, received, or suffered in place of another; taking the place of another person or thing; acting or serving as a substitute; felt or enjoyed through imagined participation in the experience of others; |Physiology| noting or pertaining to a situation in which one organ performs part of the functions normally performed by another.
• variegate: (tr.v.) to make varied in appearance, as by adding different colors; to give variety to; to diversify.
• palmetto: (n.) any of various palms having fan-shaped leaves, as a genera Sabal, Serenoa, and Thrinax.
• integument: (n.) a natural covering, as in a skin, shell, or rind; any covering, coating, or enclosure.
• miter: {also mitre, British} (n.) the official headdress of a bishop in the Western Church, in its modern form a tall cap with a top deeply cleft crosswise, the outline of the front and back resembling that of a pointed arch; the official rank of a bishop; |Judaism| the official headdress of the ancient high priest, bearing on the front a gold plate engraved with the words "holiness of the Lord" (ref. Exodus 28:36-38); a fillet worn by women of ancient Greece; |Carpentry| an oblique surface formed on a piece of wood or the like so as to butt against an oblique surface on another piece to be joined with it; |Nautical| the inclined seam connecting the two cloths of an angulated sail. (tr.v.) to bestow a miter upon, or raise to a rank entitled to it; to join with a miter joint; to cut to a miter; to join [two edges of fabric] at a corner by various methods of folding, cutting, and stitching.
• lintel: {also lintol, British} (n.) a horizontal architectural member supporting the weight above an opening [e.g. a window or a door].
• frieze: (n.) |Architecture| the part of classical entablature between the architrave and the cornice, usu. decorated with sculpture in low relief; any decorative bank on an outside wall, broader than a stringcourse and bearing lettering, sculpture, etc.; any decorative band at the top or beneath the cornice of an interior wall, a piece of furniture, etc.; |Funiture| a skirt; a heavy, napped, woolen cloth for coats.
• thole: (n.) a pin, or either of two pins, inserted into a gunwale to provide a fulcrum for an oar. (tr.v.) to suffer, bear, endure.