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10/02/2026

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MONOME

A monomial.

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ENDOZOA

See Entozoa.

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RACKETT

An old wind instrument of the double bassoon kind, havingventages but not keys.

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ALTISONANT

High-sounding; lofty or pompous. Skelton.

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DOUBLE-SHADE

To double the natural darkness of (a place). Milton.

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SEXTODECIMO

Having sixteen leaves to a sheet; of, or equal to, the size ofone fold of a sheet of printing paper when folded so as to makesixteen leaves, or thirty-two pages; as, a sextodecimo volume.

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INFLICTER

One who inflicts.Godis the sole and immadiate inflicter of such strokes. South.

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INCONCURRING

Not concurring; disagreeing. [R.] Sir T. Browne.

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DEFERENCE

A yielding of judgment or preference from respect to the wishesor opinion of another; submission in opinion; regard; respect;complaisance.Deference to the authority of thoughtful and sagacious men. Whewell.Deference is the most complicate, the most indirect, and the mostelegant of all compliments. Shenstone.

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SARCOLOGY

That part of anatomy which treats of the soft parts. Itincludes myology, angiology, neurology, and splanchnology.

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REVIVEMENT

Revival. [R.]

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GARBOARD

One of the planks next the keel on the outside, which form agarboard strake. Garboard strake or streak, the first range or strakeof planks laid on a ship's bottom next the keel. Totten.