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01/07/2025

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COMPLIANCY

COMPLIANCY

Compliance; disposition to yield to others. Goldsmith.

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EMPLOYE

EMPLOYE

One employed by another; a clerk or workman in the service ofan employer.

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UNHORSE

UNHORSE

To throw from a horse; to cause to dismount; also, to take ahorse or horses from; as, to unhorse a rider; to unhorse a carriage.Cowper.

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LONGILATERAL

LONGILATERAL

Having long sides especially, having the form of a longparallelogram.Nineveh . . . was of a longilateral figure, ninety-five furlongsbroad, and a hundred and fifty long. Sir T. Browne.

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SNOOZE

SNOOZE

A short sleep; a nap. [Colloq.]

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CONFRACT

CONFRACT

Broken in pieces; severed. [Obs.]

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PSORA

PSORA

A cutaneous disease; especially, the itch.

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TIDINESS

TIDINESS

The quality or state of being tidy.

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BITTERWOOD

BITTERWOOD

A West Indian tree (Picræna excelsa) from the wood of which thebitter drug Jamaica quassia is obtained.

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SAPHEAD

SAPHEAD

A weak-minded, stupid fellow; a milksop. [Low]

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ILEAC

ILEAC

Pertaining to the ileum. [Written also iliac.]

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MESOCARP

MESOCARP

The middle layer of a pericarp which consists of three distinctor dissimilar layers. Gray.