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12/08/2026

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FAWN

A young deer; a buck or doe of the first year. See Buck.

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TIPPLE

To drink spirituous or strong liquors habitually; to indulge inthe frequent and improper used of spirituous liquors; especially, todrink frequently in small quantities, but without absolutedrunkeness.Few of those who were summoned left their homes, and those fewgenerally found it more agreeable to tipple in alehouses than to pacethe streets. Macaulay.

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WINDSOR

A town in Berkshire, England. Windsor bean. (Bot.) See underBean.-- Windsor chair, a kind of strong, plain, polished, wooden chair.Simmonds.-- Windsor soap, a scented soap well known for its excellence.

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REOCCUPY

To occupy again.

#67203

TROMMEL

A revolving buddle or sieve for separating, or sizing, ores.Raymond.

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SIDEREALIZE

To elevate to the stars, or to the region of the stars; toetherealize.German literature transformed, siderealized, as we see it in Goethe,reckons Winckelmann among its initiators. W. Pater.

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HYDROCHLORIC

Pertaining to, or compounded of, chlorine and hydrogen gas; as,hydrochloric acid; chlorhydric. Hydrochloric acid (Chem.), hydrogenchloride; a colorless, corrosive gas, HCl, of pungent, suffocatingodor. It is made in great quantities in the soda process, by theaction of sulphuric acid on common salt. It has a great affinity forwater, and the commercial article is a strong solution of the gas inwater. It is a typical acid, and is an indispensable agent incommercial and general chemical work. Called also muriatic, andchlorhydric, acid.

#10968

BASSOCK

A hassock. See 2d Bass, 2.

#85939

DRUMMING

The act of beating upon, or as if upon, a drum; also, the noisewhich the male of the ruffed grouse makes in spring, by beating hiswings upon his sides.

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SPECTROGRAM

A photograph, map, or diagram of a spectrum.

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THUMBLESS

Without a thumb. Darwin.

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SEROSE

Serous. [Obs.] Dr. H. More.