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A fibrous material used for tying plants, said to come from the leaves of a palm tree of the genus Raphia.
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A fibrous product of two Brazilian palm trees (Attalea funifera and Leopoldinia Piassaba), -- used in making brooms, and for other purposes. Called also piaçaba and piasaba.
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A fife; also, a rude kind of oboe or a bagpipe with an inflated skin for reservoir.
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A fifteenth. One of fifteen equal parts or divisions; the quotient of a unit divided by fifteen.
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A figure by which a word is repeated in different forms, cases, numbers, genders, etc., as in Tennyson's line, -- "My own heart's heart, and ownest own, farewell."
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A figure by which the conjunction is often repeated, as in the sentence, "We have ships and men and money and stores." Opposed to asyndeton.
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A figure composed of two equilateral triangles intersecting so as to form a six-pointed star, -- used in early ornamental art, and also with superstitious import by the astrologers and mystics of the Middle Ages.
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