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02/07/2026

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GLIB

To make glib. [Obs.] Bp. Hall.

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HEDEROSE

Pertaining to, or of, ivy; full of ivy.

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BIRDBOLT

A short blunt arrow for killing birds without piercing them.Hence: Anything which smites without penetrating. Shak.

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HERS

See the Note under Her, pr.

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NECESSARY

Such things, in respect to infants, lunatics, and marriedwomen, as are requisite for support suitable to station.

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OUTGAZE

To gaze beyond; to exceed in sharpness or persistence of seeingor of looking; hence, to stare out of countenance.

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ACTUATION

A bringing into action; movement. Bp. Pearson.

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DEMISSLY

In a humble manner. [Obs.]

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PROTOPHYTOLOGY

Paleobotany.

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CESARISM

See Cæsarism.

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RESOUN

Reason. [Obs.] Chaucer.

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MECONIN

A substance regarded as an anhydride of meconinic acid,existing in opium and extracted as a white crystalline substance.Also erroneously called meconina, meconia, etc., as though it were analkaloid.