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11/09/2026

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SEMAEOSTOMATA

A division of Discophora having large free mouth lobes. Itincludes Aurelia, and Pelagia. Called also Semeostoma. See Illustr.under Discophora, and Medusa.

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SHROUDY

Affording shelter. [R.] Milton.

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DOUGHBIRD

The Eskimo curlew (Numenius borealis). See Curlew.

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ORNATENESS

The quality of being ornate.

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DISQUIETER

One who, or that which, disquiets, or makes uneasy; adisturber.

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METADISCOIDAL

Discoidal by derivation; -- applied especially to the placentaof man and apes, because it is supposed to have been derived from adiffused placenta.

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TUB

To plant or set in a tub; as, to tub a plant.

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REFORGER

One who reforges.

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ARGUMENTIZE

To argue or discuss. [Obs.] Wood.

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EXPOLIATION

See Exspoliation. [Obs.] Bp. Hall.

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MEDLE

To mix; to mingle; to meddle. [Written also medly.] [Obs.]Chaucer.

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WOOL

A sort of pubescence, or a clothing of dense, curling hairs onthe surface of certain plants. Dead pulled wool, wool pulled from acarcass.-- Mineral wool. See under Mineral.-- Philosopher's wool. (Chem.) See Zinc oxide, under Zinc.-- Pulled wool, wool pulled from a pelt, or undressed hide.-- Slag wool. Same as Mineral wool, under Mineral.-- Wool ball, a ball or mass of wool.-- Wool burler, one who removes little burs, knots, or extraneousmatter, from wool, or the surface of woolen cloth.-- Wool comber. (a) One whose occupation is to comb wool. (b) Amachine for combing wool.-- Wool grass (Bot.), a kind of bulrush (Scirpus Eriophorum) withnumerous clustered woolly spikes.-- Wool scribbler. See Woolen scribbler, under Woolen, a.-- Wool sorter's disease (Med.), a disease, resembling malignantpustule, occurring among those who handle the wool of goats andsheep.-- Wool staple, a city or town where wool used to be brought to theking's staple for sale. [Eng.] -- Wool stapler. (a) One who deals inwool. (b) One who sorts wool according to its staple, or itsadaptation to different manufacturing purposes.-- Wool winder, a person employed to wind, or make up, wool intobundles to be packed for sale.