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09/10/2026

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TORSION ELECTROMETER

A torsion balance used for measuring electric attraction orrepulsion.

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SHELVY

Sloping gradually; shelving.The shore was shelving and shallow. Shak.

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HIN

A Hebrew measure of liquids, containing three quarts, one pint,one gill, English measure. W. H. Ward.

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BIBLIOPEGIC

Relating to the binding of books. [R.]

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NEATHERD

A person who has the care of neat cattle; a cowherd. Dryden.

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PERIGORD PIE

A pie made of truffles, much esteemed by epicures.

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SEMATOLOGY

The doctrine of signs as the expression of thought orreasoning; the science of indicating thought by signs. Smart.

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OPINER

One who opines. Jer. Taylor.

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PUTRESCENCE

The state of being putrescent; putrescent matter.

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COLLETERIAL

Of or pertaining to the colleterium of insects. R. Owen.

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PLAINING

Complaint. [Poetic] Shak.

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PINEAPPLE

A tropical plant (Ananassa sativa); also, its fruit; -- socalled from the resemblance of the latter, in shape and externalappearance, to the cone of the pine tree. Its origin is unknown,though conjectured to be American.