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01/12/2025

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BARFISH

Same as Calico bass.

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DETRITE

Worn out.

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KITTLISH

Ticklish; kittle. Sir W. Scott.

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MOTORPATHY

Kinesiatrics.

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CENSE

To perfume with odors from burning gums and spices.The Salii sing and cense his altars round. Dryden.

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ENERVOUS

Lacking nerve or force; enervated. [R.]

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DREAMILY

As if in a dream; softly; slowly; languidly. Longfellow.

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ENCOMPASSMENT

The act of surrounding, or the state of being surrounded;circumvention.By this encompassment and drift of question. Shak.

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SYNCRETISM

Attempted union of principles or parties irreconcilably atvariance with each other.He is plotting a carnal syncretism, and attempting the reconcilementof Christ and Belial. Baxter.Syncretism is opposed to eclecticism in philosophy. Krauth-Fleming.

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SIMULATORY

Simulated, or capable of being simulated. Bp. Hall.

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POTBOY

A boy who carries pots of ale, beer, etc.; a menial in a publichouse.

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VELIGER

Any larval gastropod or bivalve mollusk in the state when it isfurnished with one or two ciliated membranes for swimming.