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13/05/2026

#41814

EXPLAINER

One who explains; an expounder or expositor; a commentator; aninterpreter.

#46042

CRIMP

To cause to contract, or to render more crisp, as the flesh ofa fish, by gashing it, when living, with a knife; as, to crimp skate,etc. Crimping house, a low lodging house, into which men are decoyedand plied with drink, to induce them to ship or enlist as sailors orsoldiers.-- Crimping iron. (a) An iron instrument for crimping and curlingthe hair. (b) A crimping machine.-- Crimping machine, a machine with fluted rollers or with dies, forcrimping ruffles leather, iron, etc.-- Crimping pin, an instrument for crimping or puckering the borderof a lady's cap.

#13499

CULTUS COD

See Cod, and Buffalo cod, under Buffalo.

#63933

INSCRIPTION

A line of division or intersection; as, the tendinousinscriptions, or intersections, of a muscle.

#11012

LIEGIANCY

See Ligeance.

#67894

FROG-EYED

Spotted with whitish specks due to a disease, or producedartificially by spraying; -- said of tobacco used for cigar wrappers.

#64119

DIRECTORSHIP

The condition or office of a director; directorate.

#13808

STREEK

To stretch; also, to lay out, as a dead body. See Streak. [Obs.or Prov. Eng. & Scot.]

#77838

OUTPARISH

A parish lying without the walls of, or in a remote part of, atown. Graunt.

#14069

FIGURATED

Having a determinate form.

#82687

DESPITEFUL

Full of despite; expressing malice or contemptuous hate;malicious.-- De*spite"ful*ly, adv.-- De*spite"ful*ness, n.Haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters. Rom. i. 30.Pray for them which despitefully use you. Matt. v. 44.Let us examine him with despitefulness and fortune. Book of Wisdomii. 19.

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BECKER

A European fish (Pagellus centrodontus); the sea bream orbraise.