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03/03/2026

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DEWAR VESSEL

A double-walled glass vessel for holding liquid air, etc.,having the space between the walls exhausted so as to preventconduction of heat, and sometimes having the glass silvered toprevent absorption of radiant heat; -- called also, according to theparticular shape, Dewar bulb, Dewar tube, etc.

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KHUTBAH

An address or public prayer read from the steps of the pulpitin Mohammedan mosques, offering glory to God, praising Mohammed andhis descendants, and the ruling princes.

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OSMAZOME

A substance formerly supposed to give to soup and broth theircharacteristic odor, and probably consisting of one or several of theclass of nitrogenous substances which are called extractives.

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HEARTWOOD

The hard, central part of the trunk of a tree, consisting ofthe old and matured wood, and usually differing in color from theouter layers. It is technically known as duramen, and distinguishedfrom the softer sapwood or alburnum.

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UNSATIABLE

Insatiable. [Obs.] Hooker.-- Un*sa"ti*a*ble*ness, n. [Obs.] -- Un*sa"ti*a*bly, adv. [Obs.]

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LUFF

To turn the head of a vessel toward the wind; to sail nearerthe wind; to turn the tiller so as to make the vessel sail nearer thewind. To luff round, or To luff alee, to make the extreme of thismovement, for the purpose of throwing the ship's head into the wind.

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NOCTILUCOUS

Shining in the night.

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MUSKY

Having an odor of musk, or somewhat the like. Milton.

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HUMUS

That portion of the soil formed by the decomposition of animalor vegetable matter. It is a valuable constituent of soils. Graham.

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TRIMYARIAN

A lamellibranch which has three muscular scars on each valve.

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YELLOW-EYED

Having yellow eyes. Yellow-eyed grass (Bot.), any plant of thegenus Xyris.

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NINE-BARK

A white-flowered rosaceous shrub (Neillia, or Spiræa,opulifolia), common in the Northern United States. The bark separatesinto many thin layers, whence the name.