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A native of Great Britain.
The young of the common herring; also, a small species of herring; the sprat.
The minute marine animals (chiefly Entomostraca) upon which the right whales feed.
Easily broken; apt to break; fragile; not tough or tenacious.
Any species of ophiuran starfishes. See Ophiuroidea.
In a brittle manner.
Aptness to break; fragility.
A long carriage, with a calash top, so constructed as to give space for reclining at night, when used on a journey.
The breeze fly. See Breeze.
A straight tool with file teeth, made of steel, to be pressed through irregular holes in metal that cannot be dressed by revolving tools; a drift.
To enlarge or dress (a hole), by using a broach.
To shape roughly, as a block of stone, by chiseling with a coarse tool.
To cause to begin or break out.
To make public; to utter; to publish first; to put forth; to introduce as a topic of conversation.
To open for the first time, as stores.
To tap; to pierce, as a cask, in order to draw the liquor. Hence: To let out; to shed, as blood.
To spit; to pierce as with a spit.
The pin in a lock which enters the barrel of the key.
An awl; a bodkin; also, a wooden rod or pin, sharpened at each end, used by thatchers.
A broad chisel for stonecutting.