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06/12/2025

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AEROBIC

Growing or thriving only in the presence of oxygen; also,pertaining to, or induced by, aërobies; as, aërobic fermentation. --A`ër*o"bic*al*ly (#), adv.

#20031

SHYLY

In a shy or timid manner; not familiarly; with reserve.[Written also shily.]

#38430

FRIT

The material of which glass is made, after having been calcinedor partly fused in a furnace, but before vitrification. It is acomposition of silex and alkali, occasionally with other ingredients.Ure.

#26808

FLORIKEN

An Indian bustard (Otis aurita). The Bengal floriken isSypheotides Bengalensis. [Written also florikan, floriken, florican.]

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WHERENESS

The quality or state of having a place; ubiety; situation;position. [R.]A point hath no dimensions, but only a whereness, and is next tonothing. Grew.

#18601

SYRINGE

A kind of small hand-pump for throwing a stream of liquid, orfor purposes of aspiration. It consists of a small cylindrical barreland piston, or a bulb of soft elastic material, with or withoutvalves, and with a nozzle which is sometimes at the end of a flexibletube; -- used for injecting animal bodies, cleansing wounds, etc.Garden syringe. See Garden.

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ROSLAND

heathy land; land full of heather; moorish or watery land.[prov. Eng.]

#70736

LITHODOMUS

A genus of elongated bivalve shells, allied to the mussels, andremarkable for their ability to bore holes for shelter, in solidlimestone, shells, etc. Called also Lithophagus.

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YAKAMILK

See Trumpeter, 3 (a).

#5416

CIRCLE

An instrument of observation, the graduated limb of whichconsists of an entire circle.

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OCTAEDRAL

See Octahedral.

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QUICKSILVERED

Overlaid with quicksilver, or with an amalgam of quicksilverand tinfoil.