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27/12/2025

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MONETIZE

To convert into money; to adopt as current money; as, tomonetize silver.

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BRICOLE

A kind of traces with hooks and rings, with which men drag andmaneuver guns where horses can not be used.

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CURTANA

The pointless sword carried before English monarchs at theircoronation, and emblematically considered as the sword of mercy; --also called the sword of Edward the Confessor.

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DOXOLOGY

In Christian worship: A hymn expressing praise and honor toGod; a form of praise to God designed to be sung or chanted by thechoir or the congregation.David breaks forth into these triumphant praises and doxologies.South.

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FOULDER

To flash, as lightning; to lighten; to gleam; to thunder.[Obs.] "Flames of fouldering heat." Spenser.

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TINTO

A red Madeira wine, wanting the high aroma of the white sorts,and, when old, resembling tawny port.

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CORROSION

The action or effect of corrosive agents, or the process ofcorrosive change; as, the rusting of iron is a variety of corrosion.Corrosion is a particular species of dissolution of bodies, either byan acid or a saline menstruum. John Quincy.

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MIDA

The larva of the bean fly.

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CYTOBLAST

The nucleus of a cell; the germinal or active spot of acellule, through or in which cell development takes place.

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JOLIF

Joyful; merry; pleasant; jolly. [Obs.] Chaucer.

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PATELLULA

A cuplike sucker on the feet of certain insects.

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NOVICE

One who enters a religious house, whether of monks or nuns, asa probationist. Shipley.No poore cloisterer, nor no novys. Chaucer.