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28/07/2026

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KNEEPIECE

A piece shaped like a knee; as, the kneepieces or ears of aboat.

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PICHURIM BEAN

The seed of a Brazilian lauraceous tree (Nectandra Puchury) ofa taste and smell between those of nutmeg and of sassafras, --sometimes used medicinally. Called also sassafras nut.

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DIORITIC

Containing diorite.

#2273

LAMPOON

A personal satire in writing; usually, malicious and abusivecensure written only to reproach and distress.Like her who missed her name in a lampoon, And grieved to findherself decayed so soon. Dryden.

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SILT

Mud or fine earth deposited from running or standing water.

#72727

ENWRAP

To envelop. See Inwrap.

#85776

TERCINE

A cellular layer derived from the nucleus of an ovule andsurrounding the embryo sac. Cf. Quintine.

#38951

KAHANI

A kind of notary public, or attorney, in the Levant.

#58606

FLOORING

A platform; the bottom of a room; a floor; pavement. See Floor,n. Addison.

#74021

ENGINEMAN

A man who manages, or waits on, an engine.

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LINKAGE

Manner of linking or of being linked; -- said of the union ofatoms or radicals in the molecule.

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OPPROBRIUM

Disgrace; infamy; reproach mingled with contempt; abusivelanguage.Being both dramatic author and dramatic performer, he found himselfheir to a twofold opprobrium. De Quincey.