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a case for the blade of a knife, sword, etc.; a sheath.
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the oval or round body laid by a female bird, fish, reptile, insect, etc., containing the germ of a new individual along with food for its development, and having an enclosing shell or membrane; an egg.
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either of two oval sex glands in the male that are suspended in the scrotum and secrete spermatozoa; the testicle.
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the silky or fibrous case which the larvae of certain insects spin about themselves for shelter during the pupa stage; a cocoon.
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a treasury - a) the funds or revenues as of a state; b) a place where public or private funds are kept, received, disbursed, and recorded.
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gold or silver, in any form (held in the state treasury); a treasure.
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a dry fruit or seed vessel developed from a single carpel enclosing one or more seeds and usu. splitting along two sutures at maturity, as a legume; a pod.
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a hard outer covering, as of a turtle, mollusc, insect, etc.; the shell.
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the pericarp in a lotus flower.
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a container or box, capable of being locked and usu. of metal, in which to store valuables.
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a store-house for grain.
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an immature knoblike shoot from which a flower develops; a flower or leaf that is not fully open.
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the external female genitals, esp. the external opening of the vagina; the vulva.
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the male organ of copulation and (in mammals) urination; the penis.
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a book containing words in a language, with definitions, (with or without etymologies, pronunciations, and other information); a dictionary; the special vocabulary of a particular author, field of study, etc. a lexicon.
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(law) a kind of ordeal in which the accused and acuser were made to drink the holy water with which the idol of a deity was washed, which, it was believed, would fatally harm the person if he or she were not innocent.
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(phil.) any of the five layers forming the gross, subtle and causal bodies in the complex structure of the human personality.
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the hard, aromatic seed of the tree Myristica fragrans of the nutmeg family, which is grated and used as a spice, its outer covers as the spice mace; nutmeg.
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the stone of a fruit (as mango).
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a ball; a globe.
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a dwelling place; a house.
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a cloud.