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Having the sails set in the manner called wing-and-wing. [Sailors' slang]

  • Callosity
    A hard or thickened spot or protuberance; a hardening and thickening of the skin or bark of a part, eps. as a result of continued pressure or friction.
  • Slang-whanger
    One who uses abusive slang; a ranting partisan.
  • Calligraphy
    Fair or elegant penmanship.
  • Callosum
    The great band commissural fibers which unites the two cerebral hemispheres. See corpus callosum, under Carpus.
  • Haversack
    A bag for oats or oatmeal.
  • Slanged
    of Slang
  • Calling
    A divine summons or invitation; also, the state of being divinely called.
  • Calliope
    A beautiful species of humming bird (Stellula Calliope) of California and adjacent regions.
  • Haversian
    Pertaining to, or discovered by, Clopton Havers, an English physician of the seventeenth century.
  • Slanginess
    Quality of being slangy.
  • Calliopsis
    A popular name given to a few species of the genus Coreopsis, especially to C. tinctoria of Arkansas.
  • Callous
    Hardened in mind; insensible; unfeeling; unsusceptible.
  • HAVIER
    A castrated deer. Haviers, or stags which have been gelded when young, have no horns. Encyc. of Sport.
  • Slanging
    of Slang
  • Callipash
    See Calipash.

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