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09/08/2026

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AVULSE

To pluck or pull off. Shenstone.

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ALECTRYOMANCY

Divination by means of a cock and grains of corn placed on theletters of the alphabet, the letters being put together in the orderin which the grains were eaten. Amer. Cyc.

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MUSCLING

Exhibition or representation of the muscles. [R.]A good piece, the painters say, must have good muscling, as well ascoloring and drapery. Shaftesbury.

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CONVOLVULIN

A glucoside occurring in jalap (the root of a convolvulaceousplant), and extracted as a colorless, tasteless, gummy mass ofpowerful purgative properties.

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GENERATIVE

Having the power of generating, propagating, originating, orproducing. "That generative particle." Bentley.

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INMEW

To inclose, as in a mew or cage. [R.] "Inmew the town below."Beau. & Fl.

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FRUSTRATIVE

Tending to defeat; fallacious. [Obs.] Ainsworth.

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PENTADECANE

A hydrocarbon of the paraffin series, (C15H32) found inpetroleum, tar oil, etc., and obtained as a colorless liquid; -- socalled from the fifteen carbon atoms in the molecule.

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NUTSHELL

A shell of the genus Nucula. To be, or lie, in a nutshell, tobe within a small compass; to admit of very brief or simpledetermination or statement. "The remedy lay in a nutshell." Macaulay.

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SYPHILIS

The pox, or venereal disease; a chronic, specific, infectiousdisease, usually communicated by sexual intercourse or by hereditarytransmission, and occurring in three stages known as primary,secondary, and tertiary syphilis. See under Primary, Secondary, andTertiary.Treponema pallidum. Usu. tretable with penicillin or otherbeta-lactam antibiotics.

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TENSIVE

Giving the sensation of tension, stiffness, or contraction.A tensive pain from distension of the parts. Floyer.

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METASILICATE

A salt of metasilicic acid.