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- Nearly - adv. - In a near manner; not remotely; closely; intimately; almost.
- Semidome - n. - A roof or ceiling covering a semicircular room or recess, or one of nearly that shape, as the apse of a church, a niche, or the like. It is approximately the quarter of a hollow sphere.
- Staghound - n. - A large and powerful hound formerly used in hunting the stag, the wolf, and other large animals. The breed is nearly extinct.
- Peele - n. - A graceful and swift South African antelope (Pelea capreola). The hair is woolly, and ash-gray on the back and sides. The horns are black, long, slender, straight, nearly smooth, and very sharp. Called also rheeboc, and rehboc.
- Scarp - v. t. - To cut down perpendicularly, or nearly so; as, to scarp the face of a ditch or a rock.
- Plantain - n. - Any plant of the genus Plantago, but especially the P. major, a low herb with broad spreading radical leaves, and slender spikes of minute flowers. It is a native of Europe, but now found near the abode of civilized man in nearly all parts of the world.
- Aurochs - n. - The European bison (Bison bonasus, / Europaeus), once widely distributed, but now nearly extinct, except where protected in the Lithuanian forests, and perhaps in the Caucasus. It is distinct from the Urus of Caesar, with which it has often been confused.
- Flint - n. - A massive, somewhat impure variety of quartz, in color usually of a gray to brown or nearly black, breaking with a conchoidal fracture and sharp edge. It is very hard, and strikes fire with steel.
- Hyperboliform - a. - Having the form, or nearly the form, of an hyperbola.
- Cornemuse - n. - A wind instrument nearly identical with the bagpipe.
- Phonotypy - n. - A method of phonetic printing of the English language, as devised by Mr. Pitman, in which nearly all the ordinary letters and many new forms are employed in order to indicate each elementary sound by a separate character.
- Lie - adj. - To rest extended on the ground, a bed, or any support; to be, or to put one's self, in an horizontal position, or nearly so; to be prostate; to be stretched out; -- often with down, when predicated of living creatures; as, the book lies on the table; the snow lies on the roof; he lies in his coffin.
- Increase - v. i. - To become more nearly full; to show more of the surface; to wax; as, the moon increases.
- Coquelicot - n. - The color of the wild poppy; a color nearly red, like orange mixed with scarlet.
- Brood - v. t. - The young from the same dam, whether produced at the same time or not; young children of the same mother, especially if nearly of the same age; offspring; progeny; as, a woman with a brood of children.
- Nisan - n. - The first month of the jewish ecclesiastical year, formerly answering nearly to the month of April, now to March, of the Christian calendar. See Abib.
- Floor - n. - The rock underlying a stratified or nearly horizontal deposit.
- Globular - a. - Globe-shaped; having the form of a ball or sphere; spherical, or nearly so; as, globular atoms.
- Spade - n. - An implement for digging or cutting the ground, consisting usually of an oblong and nearly rectangular blade of iron, with a handle like that of a shovel.
- Rosewort - n. - Any plant nearly related to the rose.
- Rotund - a. - Orbicular, or nearly so.
- Toucan - n. - Any one of numerous species of fruit-eating birds of tropical America belonging to Ramphastos, Pteroglossus, and allied genera of the family Ramphastidae. They have a very large, but light and thin, beak, often nearly as long as the body itself. Most of the species are brilliantly colored with red, yellow, white, and black in striking contrast.
- Globe - n. - Anything which is nearly spherical or globular in shape; as, the globe of the eye; the globe of a lamp.
- Foreshorten - v. t. - To represent on a plane surface, as if extended in a direction toward the spectator or nearly so; to shorten by drawing in perspective.
- Frock - n. - A coarse gown worn by monks or friars, and supposed to take the place of all, or nearly all, other garments. It has a hood which can be drawn over the head at pleasure, and is girded by a cord.
- Middest - superl. - Situated most nearly in the middle; middlemost; midmost.
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- G788 ἆσσον - 788 ἆσσον - ἎΣΣΟΝ - - âsson - as'-son - neuter comparative of the base of ἐγγύς; more nearly, i.e. very near:--close. - Adverb - greek
- H5695 עֵגֶל - 5695 עֵגֶל - עֵגֶל - - ʻêgel - ay-ghel - from the same as עָגֹל; a (male) calf (as frisking round), especially one nearly grown (i.e. a steer); bullock, calf. - Noun Masculine - heb
- H5697 עֶגְלָה - 5697 עֶגְלָה - עֶגְלָה - - ʻeglâh - eg-law' - feminine of עֵגֶל; a (female) calf, especially one nearly grown (i.e. a heifer); calf, cow, heifer. - Noun Feminine - heb
- G3946 παρόμοιος - 3946 παρόμοιος - ΠΑΡΌΜΟΙΟΣ - - parómoios - par-om'-oy-os - from παρά and ὅμοιος; alike nearly, i.e. similar:--like. - Adjective - greek
- G4225 πού - 4225 πού - ΠΟΎ - - poú - poo - genitive case of an indefinite pronoun (some) otherwise obsolete (compare πόσος); as adverb of place, somewhere, i.e. nearly:--about, a certain place. - Adverb - greek
- G4975 σχεδόν - 4975 σχεδόν - ΣΧΕΔΌΝ - - schedón - skhed-on' - neuter of a presumed derivative of the alternate of ἔχω as adverb; nigh, i.e. nearly:--almost. - Adverb - greek