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A woman who attends to a dairy.
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The high or principal table, at the end of a hall, at which the chief guests were seated; also, the chief seat at the high table.
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A platform slightly raised above the floor of a hall or large room, giving distinction to the table and seats placed upon it for the chief guests.
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A canopy over the seat of a person of dignity.
a.
Full of daisies; adorned with daisies.
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A genus of low herbs (Bellis), belonging to the family Compositae. The common English and classical daisy is B. prennis, which has a yellow disk and white or pinkish rays.
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The whiteweed (Chrysanthemum Leucanthemum), the plant commonly called daisy in North America; -- called also oxeye daisy. See Whiteweed.
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Post; mail; also, the mail or postal arrangements; -- spelt also dawk, and dauk.
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A measure of certain commodities by number, usually ten or twelve, but sometimes twenty; as, a daker of hides consisted of ten skins; a daker of gloves of ten pairs.
The corncrake or land rail.
A subdivision at the base of the cretaceous formation in Western North America; -- so named from the region where the strata were first studied.
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An extensive race or stock of Indians, including many tribes, mostly dwelling west of the Mississippi River; -- also, in part, called Sioux.
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Split pulse, esp. of Cajanus Indicus.
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A low place between hills; a vale or valley.
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A trough or spout to carry off water, as from a pump.