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RESUMMONS

A second summons.

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ACTUAL

Something actually received; real, as distinct from estimated,receipts. [Cant]The accounts of revenues supplied . . . were not real receipts: not,in financial language, "actuals," but only Egyptian budget estimates.Fortnightly Review.

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MYRIORAMA

A picture made up of several smaller pictures, drawn uponseparate pieces in such a manner as to admit of combination in manydifferent ways, thus producing a great variety of scenes orlandscapes.

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GABLET

A small gable, or gable-shaped canopy, formed over atabernacle, niche, etc.

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INANGULAR

Not angular. [Obs.]

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SUBTRIBE

A division of a tribe; a group of genera of a little lower rankthan a tribe.

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DISPARATES

Things so unequal or unlike that they can not be compared witheach other.

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EARTHBRED

Low; grovelling; vulgar.

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HAZARD

Holing a ball, whether the object ball (winning hazard) or theplayer's ball (losing hazard).

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OVERWING

To outflank. [Obs.] Milton.

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COVERTNESS

Secrecy; privacy. [R.]

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TRUNCUS

The thorax of an insect. See Trunk, n., 5.