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03/09/2026

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MOON

A crescentlike outwork. See Half-moon. Moon blindness. (a)(Far.) A kind of ophthalmia liable to recur at intervals of three orfour weeks. (b) (Med.) Hemeralopia.-- Moon dial, a dial used to indicate time by moonlight.-- Moon face, a round face like a full moon.-- Moon madness, lunacy. [Poetic] -- Moon month, a lunar month.-- Moon trefoil (Bot.), a shrubby species of medic (Medicagoarborea). See Medic.-- Moon year, a lunar year, consisting of lunar months, beingsometimes twelve and sometimes thirteen.

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VITRESCENT

Capable of being formed into glass; tending to become glass.

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MIMICRY

Protective resemblance; the resemblance which certain animalsand plants exhibit to other animals and plants or to the naturalobjects among which they live, -- a characteristic which serves astheir chief means of protection against enemies; imitation; mimesis;mimetism.

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EVERGLADE

A swamp or low tract of land inundated with water andinterspersed with hummocks, or small islands, and patches of highgrass; as, the everglades of Florida. [U. S.]

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DEPLORATE

Deplorable. [Obs.]A more deplorate estate. Baker.

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OGRE

An imaginary monster, or hideous giant of fairy tales, wholived on human beings; hence, any frightful giant; a cruel monster.His schoolroom must have resembled an ogre's den. Maccaulay.

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STEE

A ladder. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.] [Written also stey.]

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EPICYCLOIDAL

Pertaining to the epicycloid, or having its properties.Epicycloidal wheel, a device for producing straight-line motion fromcircular motion, on the principle that a pin fastened in theperiphery of a gear wheel will describe a straight line when thewheel rolls around inside a fixed internal gear of twice itsdiameter.

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FAIRYLIKE

Resembling a fairy, or what is made or done be fairies; as,fairylike music.

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NITRATE

A salt of nitric acid. Nitrate of silver, a white crystallinesalt (AgNO3), used in photography and as a cauterizing agent; --called also lunar caustic.

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INBURST

A bursting in or into.

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HOUTOU

A beautiful South American motmot. Waterton.