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By James Champlin Fernald
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n. [French] A bookstand for holding the volumes from which the church service was read— usually of brass or highly polished wood, and often in the form of a bird with expanded wings;— a reading desk of wood, stone, or marble, of various construction.
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Snake's-head
- Guinea-hen flower; -- so called in England because its spotted petals resemble the scales of a snake's head.