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CEREBRAL

Of or pertaining to the cerebrum. Cerebral apoplexy. See underApoplexy.

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PRAENARES

The anterior nares. See Nares. B. G. Wilder.

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TOTTLISH

Trembling or tottering, as if about to fall; un steady.[Colloq. U.S.]

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INFAMY

That loss of character, or public disgrace, which a convictincurs, and by which he is at common law rendered incompetent as awitness.

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SINICAL

Of or pertaining to a sine; employing, or founded upon, sines;as, a sinical quadrant.

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ELFISH

Of or relating to the elves; elflike; implike; weird; scarcelyhuman; mischievous, as though caused by elves. "Elfish light."Coleridge.The elfish intelligence that was so familiar an expression on hersmall physiognomy. Hawthorne.

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EMANCIPIST

A freed convict. [Australia]

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EXTRA-

A Latin preposition, denoting beyond, outside of; -- often usedin composition as a prefix signifying outside of, beyond, besides, orin addition to what is denoted by the word to which it is prefixed.

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CEINTURE

A cincture, girdle, or belt; -- chiefly used in English as adressmaking term.

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OBFIRMATION

Hardness of heart; obduracy. [Obs.] Jer. Taylor.

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OVERMARCH

To march too far, or too much; to exhaust by marching. Baker.

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BLEAK

A small European river fish (Leuciscus alburnus), of the familyCyprinidæ; the blay. [Written also blick.]