12 new words everyday
01/07/2025
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COMPLIANCY
COMPLIANCY
Compliance; disposition to yield to others. Goldsmith.
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EMPLOYE
EMPLOYE
One employed by another; a clerk or workman in the service ofan employer.
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UNHORSE
UNHORSE
To throw from a horse; to cause to dismount; also, to take ahorse or horses from; as, to unhorse a rider; to unhorse a carriage.Cowper.
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LONGILATERAL
LONGILATERAL
Having long sides especially, having the form of a longparallelogram.Nineveh . . . was of a longilateral figure, ninety-five furlongsbroad, and a hundred and fifty long. Sir T. Browne.
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SNOOZE
SNOOZE
A short sleep; a nap. [Colloq.]
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CONFRACT
CONFRACT
Broken in pieces; severed. [Obs.]
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PSORA
PSORA
A cutaneous disease; especially, the itch.
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TIDINESS
TIDINESS
The quality or state of being tidy.
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BITTERWOOD
BITTERWOOD
A West Indian tree (Picræna excelsa) from the wood of which thebitter drug Jamaica quassia is obtained.
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SAPHEAD
SAPHEAD
A weak-minded, stupid fellow; a milksop. [Low]
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ILEAC
ILEAC
Pertaining to the ileum. [Written also iliac.]
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MESOCARP
MESOCARP
The middle layer of a pericarp which consists of three distinctor dissimilar layers. Gray.