hangman.json

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Foote.","word_count":7,"hint":"no hint","id":120,"word":"BULLOCK"},{"word_description":"Earlier form of Acknow. [Obs.] To be aknow, to acknowledge; toconfess. [Obs.]","word_count":5,"hint":"no hint","id":121,"word":"AKNOW"},{"word_description":"Of or pertaining to the gyrostat or to gyrostatics.","word_count":10,"hint":"no hint","id":122,"word":"GYROSTATIC"},{"word_description":"Of or pertaining to the thigh or leg, or to any of the partscalled crura; as, the crural arteries; crural arch; crural canal;crural ring.","word_count":6,"hint":"no hint","id":123,"word":"CRURAL"},{"word_description":"The first word of any page of a book after the first, insertedat the right hand bottom corner of the preceding page for theassistance of the reader. It is seldom used in modern printing.","word_count":9,"hint":"no hint","id":124,"word":"CATCHWORD"},{"word_description":"See Pasha.","word_count":6,"hint":"no hint","id":126,"word":"PASHAW"},{"word_description":"To perish. 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Same as Muntz metal, under Metal.-- Yellow ocher (Min.), an impure, earthy variety of brown iron ore,which is used as a pigment.-- Yellow oxeye (Bot.), a yellow-flowered plant (Chrysanthemumsegetum) closely related to the oxeye daisy.-- Yellow perch (Zoöl.), the common American perch. See Perch.-- Yellow pike (Zoöl.), the wall-eye.-- Yellow pine (Bot.), any of several kinds of pine; also, theiryellowish and generally durable timber. Among the most common arevaluable species are Pinus mitis and P. palustris of the Eastern andSouthern States, and P. ponderosa and P. Arizonica of the RockyMountains and Pacific States.-- Yellow plover (Zoöl.), the golden plover.-- Yellow precipitate (Med. Chem.), an oxide of mercury which isthrown down as an amorphous yellow powder on adding corrosivesublimate to limewater.-- Yellow puccoon. (Bot.) Same as Orangeroot.-- Yellow rail (Zoöl.), a small American rail (PorzanaNoveboracensis) in which the lower parts are dull yellow, darkest onthe breast. The back is streaked with brownish yellow and with black,and spotted with white. Called also yellow crake.-- Yellow rattle, Yellow rocket. (Bot.) See under Rattle, andRocket.-- Yellow Sally (Zoöl.), a greenish or yellowish European stone flyof the genus Chloroperla; -- so called by anglers.-- Yellow sculpin (Zoöl.), the dragonet.-- Yellow snake (Zoöl.), a West Indian boa (Chilobothrus inornatus)common in Jamaica. It becomes from eight to ten long. The body isyellowish or yellowish green, mixed with black, and anteriorly withblack lines.-- Yellow spot. (a) (Anat.) A small yellowish spot with a centralpit, the fovea centralis, in the center of the retina where vision ismost accurate. See Eye. (b) (Zoöl.) A small American butterfly(Polites Peckius) of the Skipper family. Its wings are brownish, witha large, irregular, bright yellow spot on each of the hind wings,most conspicuous beneath. Called also Peck's skipper. See Illust.under Skipper, n., 5.-- Yellow tit (Zoöl.), any one of several species of crested titmiceof the genus Machlolophus, native of India. The predominating colorsof the plumage are yellow and green.-- Yellow viper (Zoöl.), the fer-de-lance.-- Yellow warbler (Zoöl.), any one of several species of Americanwarblers of the genus Dendroica in which the predominant color isyellow, especially D. æstiva, which is a very abundant and familiarspecies; -- called also garden warbler, golden warbler, summeryellowbird, summer warbler, and yellow-poll warbler.-- Yellow wash (Pharm.), yellow oxide of mercury suspended in water,-- a mixture prepared by adding corrosive sublimate to limewater.-- Yellow wren (Zoöl.) (a) The European willow warbler. 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