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18/05/2026

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BELITTLE

To make little or less in a moral sense; to speak of in adepreciatory or contemptuous way. T. Jefferson.

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MULTIJUGATE

Having many pairs of leaflets.

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YELLOW BOOK

In France, an official government publication bound in yellowcovers.

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LUBBERLY

Like a lubber; clumsy.A great lubberly boy. Shak.

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COLLIGATION

That process by which a number of isolated facts are broughtunder one conception, or summed up in a general proposition, as whenKepler discovered that the various observed positions of the planetMars were points in an ellipse. "The colligation of facts." Whewell.Colligation is not always induction, but induction is alwayscolligation. J. S. Mill.

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AEROMETER

An instrument for ascertaining the weight or density of air andgases.

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CARPINTERO

A california woodpecker (Melanerpes formicivorus), noted forits habit of inserting acorns in holes which it drills in trees. Theacorns become infested by insect larvæ, which, when grown, areextracted for food by the bird.

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APODOUS

Apodal; apod.

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ROTCHET

The European red gurnard (Trigla pini).

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OGDOASTICH

A poem of eight lines. [Obs.] Selden

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REPININGLY

With repening or murmuring.

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SMOOCH

See Smutch.