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29/09/2026

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SPORTING

Of pertaining to, or engaging in, sport or sporrts; exhibitingthe character or conduct of one who, or that which, sports. Sportingbook, a book containing a record of bets, gambling operations, andthe like. C. Kingsley.-- Sporting house, a house frequented by sportsmen, gamblers, andthe like.-- Sporting man, one who practices field sports; also, a horseracer, a pugilist, a gambler, or the like.-- Sporting plant (Bot.), a plant in which a single bud or offsetsuddenly assumes a new, and sometimes very different, character fromthat of the rest of the plant. Darwin.

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GESLING

A gosling. [Prov. Eng.]

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SWOP

Same as Swap. Dryden.

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EPITHEM

Any external topical application to the body, except ointmentsand plasters, as a poultice, lotion, etc.

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FRAXIN

A colorless crystalline substance, regarded as a glucoside, andfound in the bark of the ash (Fraxinus) and along with esculin in thebark of the horse-chestnut. It shows a delicate fluorescence inalkaline solutions; -- called also paviin.

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HANG-BY

A dependent; a hanger-on; -- so called in contempt. B. Jonson.

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INTERMEDDLE

To meddle with the affairs of others; to meddle officiously; tointerpose or interfere improperly; to mix or meddle with.The practice of Spain hath been, by war and by conditions of treaty,to intermeddle with foreign states. Bacon.

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PASTEURIZER

One that Pasteurizes, specif. an apparatus for heating andagitating, fluid.

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STROKE

Struck.

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HORMONE

A chemical substance formed in one organ and carried in thecirculation to another organ on which it exerts a stimulating effect;thus, according to Starling, the gastric glands are stimulated by ahormone from the pyloric mucous membrane.

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GENERATRIX

That which generates; the point, or the mathematical magnitude,which, by its motion, generates another magnitude, as a line,surface, or solid; -- called also describent.

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BETELGUESE

A bright star of the first magnitude, near one shoulder ofOrion. [Written also Betelgeux and Betelgeuse.]