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26/07/2026

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THORNBUT

The turbot.

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CERUSE

The native carbonate of lead.

#3464

SOFTNESS

The quality or state of being soft; -- opposed to Ant:hardness, and used in the various specific senses of the adjective.

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USEFULLY

In a useful manner.

#2086

SEA DOG

The dogfish.(b) The common seal.

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RURALLY

In a rural manner; as in the country.

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PIERCE

To enter; to penetrate; to make a way into or throughsomething, as a pointed instrument does; -- used literally andfiguratively.And pierced to the skin, but bit no more. Spenser.She would not pierce further into his meaning. Sir P. Sidney.

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DYSLOGISTIC

Unfavorable; not commendatory; -- opposed to eulogistic.There is no course of conduct for which dyslogistic or eulogisticepithets may be found. J. F. Stephen.The paternity of dyslogistic -- no bantling, but now almost acentenarian -- is adjudged to that genius of common sense, JeremyBentham. Fitzed. Hall.

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PRESENSION

Previous perception. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

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MYTHOPOEIC

Making or producing myths; giving rise to mythical narratives.The mythopoeic fertility of the Greeks. Grote.

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DESCENDER

One who descends.

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LEPIDODENDRON

A genus of fossil trees of the Devonian and Carboniferous ages,having the exterior marked with scars, mostly in quincunx order,produced by the separation of the leafstalks.