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the course set on the foremast (the foresail in a square-rigged sailing vessel).

a nation, state, or individual that cooperates with, but is not bound by a formal alliance to, another in carrying on war.

unfavourable to health.

kitchen collectables, as plates, canisters, kitchen devices, utensils, etc.

to seek for by entreaty, earnest or respectful request, formal application, etc.

a strip of tender meat forming part of the loin of beef, pork, etc., lying under the short ribs and consisting of the psoas muscle.

a rare-earth, metallic, trivalent element, so named from its green salts.

(of medications) able to pass through the skin and commonly administered by adhesive plasters or by spraying.

the quality of being fusible, or convertible from a solid to a fluid state by heat.

the decimal part of a logarithm.