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18/08/2026

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ENDOCTRINE

To teach; to indoctrinate. [Obs.] Donne.

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TRUCKAGE

The practice of bartering goods; exchange; barter; truck.The truckage of perishing coin. Milton.

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BARBAROUSLY

In a barbarous manner.

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EPISTOLOGRAPHIC

Pertaining to the writing of letters; used in writing letters;epistolary. Epistolographic character or mode of writing, the same asDemotic character. See under Demotic.

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EUPATORIUM

A genus of perennial, composite herbs including hemp agrimony,boneset, throughwort, etc.

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RADIOPTICON

See Projector, above.

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PROHEME

Proem. [Obs.] Chaucer.

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LAMBERT PINE

The gigantic sugar pine of California and Oregon (PinusLambertiana). It has the leaves in fives, and cones a foot long. Thetimber is soft, and like that of the white pine of the EasternStates.

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NONMANUFACTURING

Not carrying on manufactures.

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DORMANT

In a sleeping posture; as, a lion dormant; -- distinguishedfrom couchant. Dormant partner (Com.), a partner who takes no sharein the active business of a company or partnership, but is entitledto a share of the profits, and subject to a share in losses; --called also sleeping or silent partner.-- Dormant window (Arch.), a dormer window. See Dormer.-- Table dormant, a stationary table. [Obs.] Chaucer.

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PHARYNGOBRANCHIAL

Of or pertaining to the pharynx and the branchiæ; -- appliedespecially to the dorsal elements in the branchial arches of fishes.See Pharyngeal.-- n.

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EXPRESSMAN

A person employed in the express business; also, the driver ofa job wagon. W. D. Howells.