Baleen: alternatives and connections

An instrument for pruning trees, consisting of two blades, or a blade and a hook, fixed on the end of a long rod.

A snake of a black color, of which two species are common in the United States, the Bascanium constrictor, or racer, sometimes six fee…

A tube, as of cane or reed, sometimes twelve feet long, through which an arrow or other projectile may be impelled by the force of the…

That which binds, ties, fastens, or confines, or by which anything is fastened or bound, as a cord, chain, etc.; a band; a ligament; a…

The hard, calcified tissue of the skeleton of vertebrate animals, consisting very largely of calcic carbonate, calcic phosphate, and g…

A plate of metal covering the breast as defensive armor.

A metrical break in a verse, occurring in the middle of a foot and commonly near the middle of the verse; a sense pause in the middle…

A string, or small rope, composed of several strands twisted together.

A figure or polygon bounded by twelve sides and containing twelve angles.

Of or pertaining to the Dodecandria; having twelve stamens, or from twelve to nineteen.

A tern applied to the twelve houses, or parts, of the zodiac of the primum mobile, to distinguish them from the twelve signs; also, an…

of Dozen

The terminal part of the leg of man or an animal; esp., the part below the ankle or wrist; that part of an animal upon which it rests…

Great; large; bulky; fat; of huge size; excessively large.

A large sturgeon (Acipenser huso) from the region of the Black Sea. It is sometimes twelve feet long.

A crooked back; a humped back.

An island; -- often used in the names of small islands off the coast of Scotland, as in Inchcolm, Inchkeith, etc.

A South American freshwater dolphin (Inia Boliviensis). It is ten or twelve feet long, and has a hairy snout.