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a swimming stroke in which the body is turned sideways in the water, the hands pulling alternately, and the legs performing a scissors kick.

Japanese drums, especially large and small rope-tensioned drums with two drumheads.

of or relating to an archbishop or the office of archbishop.

a series of columns set at regular intervals, and usually supporting an entablature, a roof, or a series of arches.

a follower or advocate of the doctrines or methods of the Bolsheviks.

in or relating to the stratum of ocean depth penetrated by sunlight.

a centrifuge capable of separating the constituents of very small volumes of fluid.

the study of gliding or soaring flight; the science dealing with gliding craft.

(of a nerve cell or a chain of nerve cells) linking the incoming and outgoing nerve fibres of the nervous system.

any of the poisonous plants constituting the genus Datura, the species of which bear capsules covered with prickly spines, as the common thornapple, Datura stramonium, an annual herb with hairy, lobed leaves and white or pale lavender flowers, widespread in Australia.