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16/09/2025

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APSIDES

See Apsis.

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TRIGNESS

The quality or state of being trig; smartness; neatness.Their spars had no man-of-war trigness. Kane.

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ZOOLOGIZE

To study zoölogy; esp., to collect animals for study.

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ORGANISM

An organized being; a living body, either vegetable or animal,compozed of different organs or parts with functions which areseparate, but mutually dependent, and essential to the life of theindividual.

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GLUT

To eat gluttonously or to satiety.Like three horses that have broken fence, And glutted all night longbreast-deep in corn. Tennyson.

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DENUNCIATE

To denounce; to condemn publicly or solemnly. [R.]To denunciate this new work. Burke.

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TYMPANIC

Of or pertaining to the tympanum. Tympanic bone (Anat.), a boneof the skull which incloses a part of the tympanum and supports thetympanic membrane.-- Tympanic membrane. (Anat.) See the Note under Ear.

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MINORAT

A custom or right, analogous to borough-English in England,formerly existing in various parts of Europe, and surviving in partsof Germany and Austria, by which certain entailed estates, as ahomestead and adjacent land, descend to the youngest male heir.

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UNDERSAIL

To sail alongshore. [Obs.]

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CRYSTALLOGRAPHER

One who describes crystals, or the manner of their formation;one versed in crystallography.

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BINATE

Double; growing in pairs or couples. Gray.

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CURATORSHIP

The office of a curator.