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05/01/2026

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CLEF

A character used in musical notation to determine the positionand pitch of the scale as represented on the staff.

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MOTORIZE

To substitute motor-driven vehicles, or automobiles, for thehorses and horse-drawn vehicles of (a fire department, city, etc.). --Mo`tor*i*za"tion (#), n.

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DETENEBRATE

To remove darkness from. [Obs.] Ash.

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HEELBALL

A composition of wax and lampblack, used by shoemakers forpolishing, and by antiquaries in copying inscriptions.

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GULL

To deceive; to cheat; to mislead; to trick; to defraud.The rulgar, gulled into rebellion, armed. Dryden.I'm not gulling him for the emperor's service. Coleridge.

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TWIRL

To move or turn round rapidly; to whirl round; to move and turnrapidly with the fingers.See ruddy maids, Some taught with dexterous hand to twirl the wheel.Dodsley.No more beneath soft eve's consenting star Fandango twirls his jocundcastanet. Byron.

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SHABBINESS

The quality or state of being sghabby.

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WORDLE

One of several pivoted pieces forming the throat of anadjustable die used in drawing wire, lead pipe, etc. Knight.

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SPOONWORM

A gephyrean worm of the genus Thalassema, having a spoonlikeprobiscis.

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SHIELD

In lichens, a Hardened cup or disk surrounded by a rim andcontaining the fructification, or asci.

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HIPPOCAMP

See Hippocampus.

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AERUGINOUS

Of the nature or color of verdigris, or the rust of copper.