(architecture) An ornament resembling the foliage or leaves of Acanthus spinosus, used in the capitals of the Corinthian and composite orders.
A member of the genus Acanthus of herbaceous prickly plants with toothed leaves, (family Acanthaceae, order Lamiales (formerly Scrophulariales)) found in the south of Europe, Asia Minor, and India.
acushnet
caanthus
chanteur
chanteur
noun
A male singer; often specifically a popular or cabaret singer.
chaumont
chaunted
chaunted
verb
simple past tense and past participle of chaunt
chaunter
chaunter
noun
(UK, slang, obsolete) A street seller of ballads and other broadsides.
(colloquial) A deceitful, tricky dealer or horse jockey.
The chanter or flute of a bagpipe.
chazanut
couchant
couchant
adj
(heraldry) Represented as crouching with the head raised.
(of an animal) Lying with belly down and front legs extended; crouching.
dutchman
dutchman
noun
(carpentry, masonry) A piece of wood or stone used to repair a larger piece, shaped such that it fills as exactly as possible a void or cavity that is to be repaired.
(theater) A cloth strip attached to a flat to conceal a joint.
A flaw or void repaired with such a piece.
katchung
katchung
noun
(India) Synonym of groundnut (“Arachis hypogaea”)
nautches
nautches
noun
plural of nautch
nuthatch
nuthatch
noun
Any of various small passerine birds from the family Sittidae (and its single genus Sitta), found throughout the northern hemisphere and noted for their unusual proclivity for climbing down trees head first.
skutchan
taichung
taichung
Proper noun
a special municipality located in center-western Taiwan.
touchpan
truchman
truchman
noun
(archaic) An interpreter.
unattach
unattach
verb
(transitive, intransitive) To detach.
uncatchy
uncatchy
adj
Not catchy.
uncaught
uncaught
adj
Not caught.
unchaste
unchaste
adj
Not chaste; not continent
unsnatch
unstanch
unstarch
unstarch
verb
(transitive) To free from starch; to make limp or pliable.
