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20/09/2026

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DENOTEMENT

Sign; indication. [R.]

#20926

ROSARIAN

A cultivator of roses.

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CORRADIAL

Radiating to or from the same point. [R.] Coleridge.

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ANACONDA

A large South American snake of the Boa family (Eunectesmurinus), which lives near rivers, and preys on birds and smallmammals. The name is also applied to a similar large serpent (Pythontigris) of Ceylon.

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MALANDERS

A scurfy eruption in the bend of the knee of the fore leg of ahorse. See Sallenders. [Written also mallenders.]

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FERREST

superl. of Fer. Chaucer.

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IMPUISSANCE

Lack of power; inability. Bacon.Their own impuissance and weakness. Holland.

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VESTIGIAL

Of or pertaining to a vestige or remnant; like a vestige.

#41080

LITHOFRACTEUR

An explosive compound of nitroglycerin. See Nitroglycerin.

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BOBTAILED

Having the tail cut short, or naturally short; curtailed; as, abobtailed horse or dog; a bobtailed coat.

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NONMETAL

Any one of the set of elements which, as contrasted with themetals, possess, produce, or receive, acid rather than basicproperties; a metalloid; as, oxygen, sulphur, and chlorine arenonmetals.

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KERB

See Curb.