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13/06/2026

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LONGHORN

A long-horned animal, as a cow, goat, or beetle. See Long-horned.

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MAGHET

A name for daisies and camomiles of several kinds.

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STAMINODIUM

An abortive stamen, or any organ modified from an abortivestamen.

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ENAMBUSH

To ambush. [Obs.]

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BRAMBLED

Overgrown with brambles.Forlorn she sits upon the brambled floor. T. Warton.

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ELABORATIVE

Serving or tending to elaborate; constructing with labor andminute attention to details. Elaborative faculty (Metaph.), theintellectual power of discerning relations and of viewing objects bymeans of, or in, relations; the discursive faculty; thought.

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CORNEOCALCAREOUS

Formed of a mixture of horny and calcareous materials, as someshells and corals.

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UNSHERIFF

To depose from the office of sheriff. [R.]

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PLENTY

Full or adequate supply; enough and to spare; sufficiency;specifically, abundant productiveness of the earth; ample supply forhuman wants; abundance; copiousness. "Plenty of corn and wine." Gen.xxvii. 28. "Promises Britain peace and plenty." Shak.Houses of office stuffed with plentee. Chaucer.The teeming clouds Descend in gladsome plenty o'er the world.Thomson.

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OPERCULIFEROUS

Bearing an operculum.

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BATEFUL

Exciting contention; contentious. [Obs.] "It did batefulquestion frame. " Sidney.

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WAISTCOATING

A fabric designed for waistcoats; esp., one in which there is apattern, differently colored yarns being used.