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16/04/2026

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TESTACEAN

Onr of the Testacea.

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CHEIROSOPHY

The art of reading character as it is delineated in the hand.-- Chei*ros"o*phist (, n.

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CLOTHE

To wear clothes. [Poetic]Care no more to clothe eat. Shak.

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EXPELLABLE

Capable of being expelled or driven out. "Expellable by heat."Kirwan.

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IMPIGNORATION

The act of pawning or pledging; the state of being pawned.[Obs.] Bailey.

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ART UNION

An association for promoting art (esp. the arts of design), andgiving encouragement to artists.

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TRABEA

A toga of purple, or ornamented with purple horizontal stripes.-- worn by kings, consuls, and augurs. Dr. W. Smith.

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EMBASE

To bring down or lower, as in position, value, etc.; to debase;to degrade; to deteriorate. [Obs.]Embased the valleys, and embossed the hills. Sylvester.Alloy in coin of gold . . . may make the metal work the better, butit embaseth it. Bacon.Such pitiful embellishments of speech as serve for nothing but toembase divinity. South.

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WHIPSTICK

Whip handle; whipstock.

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CARINARIA

A genus of oceanic heteropod Mollusca, having a thin, glassy,bonnet-shaped shell, which covers only the nucleus and gills.

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SYMMETRAL

Commensurable; symmetrical. [Obs.] Dr. H. More.

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CULLYISM

The state of being a cully.Less frequent instances of eminent cullyism. Spectator.