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Corbel :: Corbel (n.) A bracket supporting a superincumbent object, or receiving the spring of an arch. Corbels were employed largely in Gothic architecture..

Hepatica :: Hepatica (n.) Any plant, usually procumbent and mosslike, of the cryptogamous class Hepaticae; -- called also scale moss and liverwort. See Hepaticae, in the Supplement..

Raise :: Raise (v. t.) To cause to spring up from a recumbent position, from a state of quiet, or the like; to awaken; to arouse..

Reclining :: Reclining (a.) Recumbent.

Hydrorhiza :: Hydrorhiza (n.) The rootstock or decumbent stem by which a hydroid is attached to other objects. See Illust. under Hydroidea.

Thrust :: Thrust (n.) The breaking down of the roof of a gallery under its superincumbent weight.

Parson :: Parson (n.) A person who represents a parish in its ecclesiastical and corporate capacities; hence, the rector or incumbent of a parochial church, who has full possession of all the rights thereof, with the cure of souls..

Voidance :: Voidance (n.) The state of being void; vacancy, as of a benefice which is without an incumbent..

Accumbency :: Accumbency (n.) The state of being accumbent or reclining.

Humifuse :: Humifuse (a.) Spread over the surface of the ground; procumbent.

Vicar :: Vicar (n.) The incumbent of an appropriated benefice.

Avoidance :: Avoidance (n.) The act of becoming vacant, or the state of being vacant; -- specifically used for the state of a benefice becoming void by the death, deprivation, or resignation of the incumbent..

Fill :: Fill (a.) To supply with an incumbent; as, to fill an office or a vacancy..

Parsonage :: Parsonage (n.) The glebe and house, or the house only, owned by a parish or ecclesiastical society, and appropriated to the maintenance or use of the incumbent or settled pastor..

Decumbent :: Decumbent (a.) Lying down; prostrate; recumbent.

Creep :: Creep (n.) A slow rising of the floor of a gallery, occasioned by the pressure of incumbent strata upon the pillars or sides; a gradual movement of mining ground..

Incumbency :: Incumbency (n.) That which is physically incumbent; that which lies as a burden; a weight.

Cumbent :: Cumbent (a.) Lying down; recumbent.

Void :: Void (a.) Having no incumbent; unoccupied; -- said of offices and the like.

Prop :: Prop (v.) That which sustains an incumbent weight; that on which anything rests or leans for support; a support; a stay; as, a prop for a building..

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