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Word: EXTRAMISSION | Definition: A sending out; emission. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.
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Word: ANGULOSE | Definition: Angulous. [R.]
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Word: TRUSTILY | Definition: In a trusty manner.
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Word: ANNULLER | Definition: One who annuls. [R.]
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Word: ERYSIPELOUS | Definition: Erysipelatous.
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Word: REPROVINGLY | Definition: In a reproving manner.
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Word: GEEZ | Definition: The original native name for the ancient Ethiopic language orpeople. See Ethiopic.
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Word: MISTRUSTLESS | Definition: Having no mistrust or suspicion.The swain mistrustless of his smutted face. Goldsmith.
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Word: EXTRUCTION | Definition: A building up; construction. [Obs.] Cockeram.
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Word: CONFLATION | Definition: A blowing together, as of many instruments in a concert, or ofmany fires in a foundry. [R.] Bacon.
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Word: SEA | Definition: A great brazen laver in the temple at Jerusalem; -- so calledfrom its size.He made a molten sea of ten cubits from brim to brim, round incompass, and five cubits the height thereof. 2 Chron. iv. 2.
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Word: BERBE | Definition: An African genet (Genetta pardina). See Genet.
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Word: TITRATED | Definition: Standardized; determined or analyzed by titration; as, titratedsolutions.
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Word: TRAMONTANA | Definition: A dry, cold, violent, northerly wind of the Adriatic.
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Word: JAPANNISH | Definition: After the manner of the Japanese; resembling japanned articles.Carlyle.
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Word: GRUNTLING | Definition: A young hog.
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Word: CONCAUSE | Definition: A joint cause. Fotherby.
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Word: ABJUDICATION | Definition: Rejection by judicial sentence. [R.] Knowles.
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Word: ANTIPYRESIS | Definition: The condition or state of being free from fever.
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Word: RICINOLEIN | Definition: The glycerin salt of ricinoleic acid, occuring as acharacteristic constituent of castor oil; -- formerly called palmin.
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Word: COHERER | Definition: Any device in which an imperfectly conducting contact betweenpieces of metal or other conductors loosely resting against eachother is materially improved in conductivity by the influence ofHertzian waves; -- so called by Sir O. J. Lodge in 1894 on theassumption that the impact of the electic... |
Word: YELLOW | Definition: Being of a bright saffronlike color; of the color of gold orbrass; having the hue of that part of the rainbow, or of the solarspectrum, which is between the orange and the green.Her yellow hair was browded [braided] in a tress. Chaucer.A sweaty reaper from his tillage brought First fruits, th... |
Word: DRABBLER | Definition: A piece of canvas fastened by lacing to the bonnet of a sail,to give it a greater depth, or more drop.
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Word: ICILY | Definition: In an icy manner; coldly.Faultily faultless, icily regular, splendidly null, Dead perfection,no more. Tennyson.
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Word: ANTE | Definition: Each player's stake, which is put into the pool before (ante)the game begins.
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Word: ON-HANGER | Definition: A hanger-on.
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Word: PERSALT | Definition: A term formerly given to the salts supposed to be formedrespectively by neutralizing acids with certain peroxides. [Obsoles.]
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Word: BONIFY | Definition: To convert into, or make, good.To bonify evils, or tincture them with good. Cudworth.
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Word: OVERSHADE | Definition: To cover with shade; to render dark or gloomy; to overshadow.Shak.
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Word: YAMMA | Definition: The llama.
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Word: TAWER | Definition: One who taws; a dresser of white leather.
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Word: LIMONIN | Definition: A bitter, white, crystalline substance found in orange andlemon seeds.
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Word: CYMOPHANE | Definition: See Chrysoberyl.
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Word: BIPOLARITY | Definition: Bipolar quality.
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Word: SACCHOLACTATE | Definition: A salt of saccholactactic acid; -- formerly called alsosaccholate. [Obs.] See Mucate.
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Word: ALACRIOUSNESS | Definition: Alacrity. [Obs.] Hammond.
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Word: BITSTOCK | Definition: A stock or handle for holding and rotating a bit; a brace.
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Word: PLATYRHINE | Definition: Having the nose broad; -- opposed to Ant: leptorhine.-- n. (Zoöl.)
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Word: PIG | Definition: A piggin. [Written also pigg.]
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Word: PREFIDENCE | Definition: The quality or state of being prefident. [Obs.] Baxter.
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Word: EVERYTHING | Definition: Whatever pertains to the subject under consideration; allthings.More wise, more learned, more just, more everything. Pope.
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Word: LIGNIFORM | Definition: Like wood.
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Word: COPRA | Definition: The dried meat of the cocoanut, from which cocoanut oil isexpressed. [Written also cobra, copperah, coppra.]
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Word: PINKNESS | Definition: Quality or state of being pink.
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Word: ACUTELY | Definition: In an acute manner; sharply; keenly; with nice discrimination.
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Word: COMPOS-MENTIS | Definition: One who is compos mentis. [Colloq.]
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Word: ANTENICENE | Definition: Of or in the Christian church or era, anterior to the firstcouncil of Nice, held a. d. 325; as, antenicene faith.
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Word: EXPLORING | Definition: Employed in, or designed for, exploration. "Exploring parties."Bancroft.
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Word: NARRATE | Definition: To tell, rehearse, or recite, as a story; to relate theparticulars of; to go through with in detail, as an incident ortransaction; to give an account of.
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Word: DOGATE | Definition: The office or dignity of a doge.
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Word: KNOUT | Definition: A kind of whip for flogging criminals, formerly much used inRussia. The last is a tapering bundle of leather thongs twisted withwire and hardened, so that it mangles the flesh.
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Word: SAFE | Definition: A place for keeping things in safety. Specifically:(a) A strong and fireproof receptacle (as a movable chest of steel,etc., or a closet or vault of brickwork) for money, valuable papers,or the like.(b) A ventilated or refrigerated chest or closet for securingprovisions from noxious animals or i... |
Word: YTTRIA | Definition: The oxide, Y2O3, or earth, of yttrium.
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Word: ATOLE | Definition: A porridge or gruel of maize meal and water, milk, or the like.[Sp. Amer.]
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Word: EYSELL | Definition: Same as Eisel. [Obs.] Shak.
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Word: MANUFACTORY | Definition: Pertaining to manufacturing.
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Word: TIMAL | Definition: The blue titmouse. [Prov. Eng.]
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Word: CHELIDONIC | Definition: Of, pertaining to, or derived from, the celandine. Cheidonicacid, a weak acid extracted fron the celandine (Chelidonium majus),as a white crystalline substance.
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Word: PANSHON | Definition: An earthen vessel wider at the top than at the bottom, -- usedfor holding milk and for various other purposes. [Prov. Eng.]Halliwell.
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Word: WATERCOURSE | Definition: One of the holes in floor or other plates to permit water toflow through.
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Word: CONTROVERSARY | Definition: Controversial. [Obs.] Bp. Hall.
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Word: SICH | Definition: Such. [Obs. or Colloq.] Spenser.
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Word: INFUSER | Definition: One who, or that which, infuses.
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Word: SUBDULCID | Definition: Somewhat sweet; sweetish. [R.]
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Word: ESTER | Definition: An ethereal salt, or compound ether, consisting of an organicradical united with the residue of any oxygen acid, organic orinorganic; thus the natural fats are esters of glycerin and the fattyacids, oleic, etc.
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Word: ARSENICISM | Definition: A diseased condition produced by slow poisoning with arsenic.
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Word: OVERSPAN | Definition: To reach or extend over.
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Word: ANTIPATHIC | Definition: Belonging to antipathy; opposite; contrary; allopathic.
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Word: HEURISTIC | Definition: Serving to discover or find out.
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Word: BACTERICIDE | Definition: Same as Germicide.
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Word: LENGTHY | Definition: Having length; rather long or too long; prolix; not brief; --said chiefly of discourses, writings, and the like. "Lengthyperiods." Washington. "Some lengthy additions." Byron. "These wouldbe details too lengthy." Jefferson. "To cut short lengthyexplanations." Trench.
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Word: EMERSED | Definition: Standing out of, or rising above, water. Gray.
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Word: SYNGENESIA | Definition: A Linnæan class of plants in which the stamens are united bythe anthers.
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Word: VEILLESS | Definition: Having no veil. Tennyson.
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Word: EXPUGN | Definition: To take by assault; to storm; to overcome; to vanquish; as, toexpugn cities; to expugn a person by arguments.
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Word: RETTERY | Definition: A place or establishment where flax is retted. See Ret. Ure.
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Word: EXPULSE | Definition: To drive out; to expel. [Obs.]If charity be thus excluded and expulsed. Milton.
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Word: OYSTERING | Definition: Gathering, or dredging for, oysters.
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Word: PARALYTIC | Definition: A person affected with paralysis.
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Word: PESTIFEROUSLY | Definition: In a pestiferuos manner.
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Word: HEARTSICK | Definition: Sick at heart; extremely depressed in spirits; very despondent.
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Word: DINGY | Definition: Soiled; sullied; of a dark or dusky color; dark brown; dirty."Scraps of dingy paper." Macaulay.
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Word: EIGHT | Definition: An island in a river; an ait. [Obs.] "Osiers on their eights."Evelyn.
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Word: FIRELESS | Definition: Destitute of fire.
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Word: DISVALUATION | Definition: Disesteem; depreciation; disrepute. Bacon.
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Word: FOLIATE | Definition: Furnished with leaves; leafy; as, a foliate stalk. Foliatecurve. (Geom.) Same as Folium.
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Word: AROMATOUS | Definition: Aromatic. [Obs.] Caxton.
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Word: EVOLVE | Definition: To become open, disclosed, or developed; to pass through aprocess of evolution. Prior.
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Word: LIGSAM | Definition: Same as Ligan. Brande & C.
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Word: CORSEPRESENT | Definition: An offering made to the church at the interment of a dead body.Blackstone.
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Word: LINEARY | Definition: Linear. Holland.
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Word: CONCH | Definition: A name applied to various marine univalve shells; esp. to thoseof the genus Strombus, which are of large size. S. gigas is the largepink West Indian conch. The large king, queen, and cameo conchs areof the genus Cassis. See Cameo.
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Word: BAROSCOPE | Definition: Any instrument showing the changes in the weight of theatmosphere; also, less appropriately, any instrument that indicates -or foreshadows changes of the weather, as a deep vial of liquidholding in suspension some substance which rises and falls withatmospheric changes.
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Word: TRUNK STEAMER | Definition: A freight steamer having a high hatch coaming extending almostcontinuously fore and aft, but not of whaleback form at the sides.
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Word: MACROCHIRES | Definition: A division of birds including the swifts and humming birds. Socalled from the length of the distal part of the wing.
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Word: RETIPED | Definition: A bird having small polygonal scales covering the tarsi.
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Word: CERTIFICATION | Definition: The act of certifying.
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Word: TINSMITH | Definition: One who works in tin; a tinner.
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Word: MISPLEAD | Definition: To err in pleading.
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Word: WATER BLACKBIRD | Definition: The European water ousel, or dipper.
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