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17/03/2026

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STEEM

See Esteem. [Obs.] Spenser.

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ALMANAC

A book or table, containing a calendar of days, and months, towhich astronomical data and various statistics are often added, suchas the times of the rising and setting of the sun and moon, eclipses,hours of full tide, stated festivals of churches, terms of courts,etc. Nautical almanac, an almanac, or year book, containingastronomical calculations (lunar, stellar, etc.), and otherinformation useful to mariners.

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PURRE

The dunlin. [Prov. Eng.]

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SARDONIAN

Sardonic. [Obs.] "With Sardonian smile." Spenser.

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FATTEN

To grow fat or corpulent; to grow plump, thick, or fleshy; tobe pampered.And villains fatten with the brave man's labor. Otway.

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WHILK

A kind of mollusk, a whelk. [Prov. Eng.]

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WANDERINGLY

In a wandering manner.

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AESTIVAL

Of or belonging to the summer; as, æstival diseases. [Speltalso estival.]

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DISPUTISON

Dispute; discussion. [Obs.] Chaucer.

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LOPHOBRANCH

Of or pertaining to the Lophobranchii.-- n.

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PROTRUDE

To shoot out or forth; to be thrust forward; to extend beyond alimit; to project.The parts protrude beyond the skin. Bacon.

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MALACOBDELLA

A genus of nemertean worms, parasitic in the gill cavity ofclams and other bivalves. They have a large posterior sucker, likethat of a leech. See Illust. of Bdellomorpha.