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26/06/2026

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GLYCERYL

A compound radical, C3H5, regarded as the essential radical ofglycerin. It is metameric with allyl. Called also propenyl.

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POST-DISSEIZOR

A person who disseizes another of lands which the disseizee hadbefore recovered of the same disseizor. Blackstone.

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PROTUBERANCE

That which is protuberant swelled or pushed beyond thesurrounding or adjacent surface; a swelling or tumor on the body; aprominence; a bunch or knob; an elevation. Solar protuberances(Astron.), certain rose-colored masses on the limb of the sun whichare seen to extend beyond the edge of the moon at the time of a solareclipse. They may be discovered with the spectroscope on any clearday. Called also solar prominences. See Illust. in Append.

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REVIVEMENT

Revival. [R.]

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ESCRIBED

Drawn outside of; -- used to designate a circle that touchesone of the sides of a given triangle, and also the other two sidesproduced.

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PITTA

Any one of a large group of bright-colored clamatorial birdsbelonging to Pitta, and allied genera of the family Pittidæ. Most ofthe species are varied with three or more colors, such as blue,green, crimson, yellow, purple, and black. They are called alsoground thrushes, and Old World ant thrushes; but they are not relatedto the true thrushes.

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PER

Through; by means of; through the agency of; by; for; for each;as, per annum; per capita, by heads, or according to individuals; percuriam, by the court; per se, by itself, of itself. Per is alsosometimes used with English words. Per annum, by the year; in eachsuccessive year; annually.-- Per cent, Per centum, by the hundred; in the hundred; -- usedesp. of proportions of ingredients, rate or amount of interest, andthe like; commonly used in the shortened form per cent.-- Per diem, by the day. [For other phrases from the Latin, seeQuotations, Phrases, etc., from Foreign Languages, in theSupplement.]

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KINAESTHESIS

The perception attendant upon the movements of the muscles.Bastian.

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ARBORARY

Of or pertaining to trees; arboreal.

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UPRIST

Uprising. [Obs.] Chaucer.

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PRODUCE

To extend; -- applied to a line, surface, or solid; as, toproduce a side of a triangle.

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PIEDSTALL

See Pedestal. [Obs.]