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- Fiat - n. - An authoritative command or order to do something; an effectual decree.
- Fiat - n. - A warrant of a judge for certain processes.
- Fiat - n. - An authority for certain proceedings given by the Lord Chancellor's signature.
- Grovel - adv. - To creep on the earth, or with the face to the ground; to lie prone, or move uneasily with the body prostrate on the earth; to lie fiat on one's belly, expressive of abjectness; to crawl.
- Reed - n. - A small piece of cane or wood attached to the mouthpiece of certain instruments, and set in vibration by the breath. In the clarinet it is a single fiat reed; in the oboe and bassoon it is double, forming a compressed tube.
- Ricochet - n. - A rebound or skipping, as of a ball along the ground when a gun is fired at a low angle of elevation, or of a fiat stone thrown along the surface of water.