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22/08/2026

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CIRCUMSCRIBE

To draw a line around si as to touch at certain points withoutcutting. See Inscribe, 5.

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MASTICATER

One who masticates.

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DECLINATORY

Containing or involving a declination or refusal, as ofsubmission to a charge or sentence. Blackstone. Declinatory plea (O.Eng. Law), the plea of sanctuary or of benefit of clergy, beforetrial or conviction; -- now abolished.

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HIRE

See Here, pron. Chaucer.

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STYPHNATE

A salt of styphnic acid.

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HUGGER

One who hugs or embraces.

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COGNIZEE

One to whom a fine of land was ackowledged. Blackstone.

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HECDECANE

A white, semisolid, spermaceti-like hydrocarbon, C16H34, of theparaffin series, found dissolved as an important ingredient ofkerosene, and so called because each molecule has sixteen atoms ofcarbon; -- called also hexadecane.

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GNAPHALIUM

A genus of composite plants with white or colored dry andpersistent involucres; a kind of everlasting.

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TROCHOID

The curve described by any point in a wheel rolling on a line;a cycloid; a roulette; in general, the curve described by any pointfixedly connected with a moving curve while the moving curve rollswithout slipping on a second fixed curve, the curves all being in oneplane. Cycloids, epicycloids, hypocycloids, cardioids, etc., are alltrochoids.

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CASTOR AND POLLUX

See Saint Elmo's fire, under Saint.

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HOMOSTYLED

Having only one form of pistils; -- said of the flowers of someplants. Darwin.