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26/04/2025

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GODSHIP

The rank or character of a god; deity; divinity; a god orgoddess.O'er hills and dales their godships came. Prior.

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DOORGA

A Hindoo divinity, the consort of Siva, represented with tenarms. [Written also Durga.] Malcom.

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WAIT-A-BIT

Any of several plants bearing thorns or stiff hookedappendages, which catch and tear the clothing, as:(a) The greenbrier.(b) Any of various species of hawthorn.(c) In South Africa, one of numerous acacias and mimosas.(d) The grapple plant.(e) The prickly ash.

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INCASE

To inclose in a case; to inclose; to cover or surround withsomething solid.Rich plates of gold the folding doors incase. Pope.

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BACCHUS

The god of wine, son of Jupiter and Semele.

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OBLONGLY

In an oblong form.

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PANTA-

See Pan-.

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DETACHABLE

That can be detached.

#51393

URANOMETRIA

A uranometry.

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RESONANCE

A prolongation or increase of any sound, eithar by reflection,as in a cavern or apartment the walls of which are not distant enoughto return a distinct echo, or by the production of vibrations inother bodies, as a sounding-board, or the bodies of musicalinstruments. Pulmonary resonance (Med.), the sound heard onpercussing over the lungs.-- Vocal resonance (Med.), the sound transmitted to the ear whenauscultation is made while the patient is speaking.

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HURST

A wood or grove; -- a word used in the composition of manynames, as in Hazlehurst.

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PORTAL

The space, at one end, between opposite trusses when these areterminated by inclined braces.