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Decile
- noun - (statistics) any of nine points that divided a distribution of ranked scores into equal intervals where each interval contains one-tenth of the scores
Deckle
- noun - (paper making) a frame used to form paper pulp into sheets
- rough edge left by a deckle on handmade paper or produced artificially on machine-made paper
Defile
- noun - a narrow pass (especially one between mountains)
- make dirty or spotty, as by exposure to air; also used metaphorically; "The silver was tarnished by the long exposure to the air"; "Her reputation was sullied after the affair with a married man"
- place under suspicion or cast doubt upon; "sully someone's reputation"
- spot, stain, or pollute; "The townspeople defiled the river by emptying raw sewage into it"
Feeble
- adjective - lacking bodily or muscular strength or vitality; "a feeble old woman"; "her body looked sapless"
- lacking strength or vigor; "damning with faint praise"; "faint resistance"; "feeble efforts"; "a feeble voice"
- lacking strength; "a weak, nerveless fool, devoid of energy and promptitude"- Nathaniel Hawthorne
- pathetically lacking in force or effectiveness; "a feeble excuse"; "a lame argument"
Female
- adjective - a person who belongs to the sex that can have babies
- an animal that produces gametes (ova) that can be fertilized by male gametes (spermatozoa)
- being the sex (of plant or animal) that produces fertilizable gametes (ova) from which offspring develop; "a female heir"; "female holly trees bear the berries"
- characteristic of or peculiar to a woman; "female sensitiveness"; "female suffrage"
- for or pertaining to or composed of women or girls; "the female lead in the play"; "a female chorus"
Ferule
- noun - a switch (a stick or cane or flat paddle) used to punish children
Fettle
- noun - a state of fitness and good health; "in fine fettle"
- remove mold marks or sand from (a casting)
Gentle
- adjective -
- belonging to or characteristic of the nobility or aristocracy; "an aristocratic family"; "aristocratic Bostonians"; "aristocratic government"; "a blue family"; "blue blood"; "the blue-blooded aristocracy"; "of gentle blood"; "patrician landholders of the American South"; "aristocratic bearing"; "aristocratic features"; "patrician tastes"
- easily handled or managed; "a gentle old horse, docile and obedient"
- gentles are the name given to the larvae of the meat fly, and are bred and used as bait by fishermen.
- give a title to someone; make someone a member of the nobility
- having little impact; "an easy pat on the shoulder"; "gentle rain"; "a gentle breeze"; "a soft (or light) tapping at the window"
- having or showing a kindly or tender nature; "the gentle touch of her hand"; "her gentle manner was comforting"; "a gentle sensitive nature"; "gentle blue eyes"
- marked by moderate steepness; "an easy climb"; "a gentle slope"
Heckle
- noun - a comb for separating flax fibers
- challenge aggressively
- comb with a heckle; "heckle hemp or flax"
Heddle
- - One of the sets of parallel doubled threads which, with mounting, compose the harness employed to guide the warp threads to the lathe or batten in a loom.