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hast thou or have you
Fred Astaire is London Cockney rhyming slang for hair.
This was a general purpose exclamation used by the Alderaanian Jora Astane.
Fred Astaires is London Cockney rhyming slang for stairs.
Over to the starboard side.
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n.
An instrument of extreme sensibility, used to determine slight differences and degrees of heat. It is composed of alternate bars of antimony and bismuth, or any two metals having different capacities for the conduction of heat, connected with an astatic galvanometer, which is very sensibly affected by the electric current induced in the system of bars when exposed even to the feeblest degrees of heat.
n.
A genus of bivalve mollusks, common on the coasts of America and Europe.
adv.
In an astatic manner.
n.
A genus of crustaceans, containing the crawfish of fresh-water lobster of Europe, and allied species of western North America. See Crawfish.
v. t. & i.
Same as Astert.
adv.
Over to the starboard side; -- said of the tiller.
n.
The state of being astatic.
n.
Estate; state.
adv.
An anchor is said to be astay, when, in heaving it, an acute angle is formed between the cable and the surface of the water.
a.
Having little or no tendency to take a fixed or definite position or direction: thus, a suspended magnetic needle, when rendered astatic, loses its polarity, or tendency to point in a given direction.
n.
Any crustacean of the family Astacidae, resembling the lobster, but smaller, and found in fresh waters. Crawfishes are esteemed very delicate food both in Europe and America. The North American species are numerous and mostly belong to the genus Cambarus. The blind crawfish of the Mammoth Cave is Cambarus pellucidus. The common European species is Astacus fluviatilis.
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