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18/07/2026

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EMBASSADOR

Same as Ambassador.Stilbon, that was a wise embassadour, Was sent to Corinth. Chaucer.Myself my king's embassador will go. Dryden.

#38931

BEHOWL

To howl at. [Obs.]The wolf behowls the moon. Shak.

#11921

PHANTASMAGORY

See Phantasmagoria.

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INCANDESCENT

White, glowing, or luminous, with intense heat; as,incandescent carbon or platinum; hence, clear; shining; brilliant.Holy Scripture become resplendent; or, as one might say, incandescentthroughout. I. Taylor.Incandescent lamp or light (Elec.), a kind of lamp in which the lightis produced by a thin filament of conducting material, usuallycarbon, contained in a vacuum, and heated to incandescence by anelectric current, as in the Edison lamp; -- called also incandescencelamp, and glowlamp.

#38672

BICEPS

A muscle having two heads or origins; -- applied particularlyto a flexor in the arm, and to another in the thigh.

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AMPHIPNEUST

One of a tribe of Amphibia, which have both lungs and gills atthe same time, as the proteus and siren.

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DISCOMPLIANCE

Failure or refusal to comply; noncompliance.A compliance will discommend me to Mr. Coventry, and a discomplianceto my lord chancellor. Pepys.

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ARRANGER

One who arranges. Burke.

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ATTEMPERMENT

Attemperament.

#61149

TERMINABLE

Capable of being terminated or bounded; limitable.-- Ter"mi*na*ble*ness, n. Terminable annuity, an annuity for astated, definite number of years; -- distinguished from life annuity,and perpetual annuity.

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UNEQUALABLE

Not capable of being equaled or paralleled. [Obs.] Boyle.

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COLLECTIBLE

Capable of being collected.