Sampan: alternatives and connections

fish-eating bird of warm inland waters having a long flexible neck and slender sharp-pointed bill

An evergreen Chinese shrub of the Magnolia family (Illicium anisatum), and its aromatic seeds; Chinese anise; star anise.

Plates or blades of "whalebone," from two to twelve feet long, and sometimes a foot wide, which in certain whales (Balaenoidea) are at…

A small hound, or hunting dog, twelve to fifteen inches high, used in hunting hares and other small game. See Illustration in Appendix.

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…

Hence, any vessel; usually with some epithet descriptive of its use or mode of propulsion; as, pilot boat, packet boat, passage boat,…

An aquatic hemipterous insect of the genus Notonecta; -- so called from swimming on its back, which gives it the appearance of a littl…

A part of the vestment of the high priest, worn upon the front of the ephod. It was a double piece of richly embroidered stuff, a span…

A palm tree producing the cocoanut (Cocos nucifera). It grows in nearly all tropical countries, attaining a height of sixty or eighty…

A solid measure, equivalent to 128 cubic feet; a pile of wood, or other coarse material, eight feet long, four feet high, and four fee…

fish-eating bird of warm inland waters having a long flexible neck and slender sharp-pointed bill

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…

A collection of twelve objects; a tale or set of twelve; with or without of before the substantive which follows.

One of fifteen equal parts or divisions; the quotient of a unit divided by fifteen.

A plant of the genus Aralia, the root of which is highly valued as a medicine among the Chinese. The Chinese plant (Aralia Schinseng)…