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31/12/2025

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CONCHOIDAL

Having elevations or depressions in form like one half of abivalve shell; -- applied principally to a surface produced byfracture.

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NATATORES

The swimming birds.

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SECULARITY

Supreme attention to the things of the present life;worldliness.A secularity of character which makes Christianity and its principaldoctrines distasteful or unintelligible. I. Taylor.

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BURT

See Birt. [Prov. Eng.]

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UPLOCK

To lock up. [Obs.] Shak.

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TETRASCHISTIC

Characterized by division into four parts.

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REGRADE

To retire; to go back. [Obs.] W. Hales.

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SCOFFER

One who scoffs. 2 Pet. iii. 3.

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MYELENCEPHALA

Same as Vertebrata.

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KILOSTERE

A cubic measure containing 1000 cubic meters, and equivalent to35,315 cubic feet.

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INEXPRESSIBLE

Not capable of expression or utterance in language; ineffable;unspeakable; indescribable; unutterable; as, inexpressible grief orpleasure. "Inexpressible grandeur." Blair.In orbs Of circuit inexpressible they stood. Milton.

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DILL

An herb (Peucedanum graveolens), the seeds of which aremoderately warming, pungent, and aromatic, and were formerly used asa soothing medicine for children; -- called also dill-seed. Dr.Prior.