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DILUCIDATE

To elucidate. [Obs.] Boyle.

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DARTROUS

Relating to, or partaking of the nature of, the disease calledtetter; herpetic. Dartroud diathesis, A morbid condition of thesystem predisposing to the development of certain skin deseases, suchas eczema, psoriasis, and pityriasis. Also called rheumic diathesis,and hipretism. Piffard.

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SAUBA ANT

A South American ant (Ecodoma cephalotes) remarkable for havingtwo large kinds of workers besides the ordinary ones, and for theimmense size of its formicaries. The sauba ant cuts off leaves ofplants and carries them into its subterranean nests, and thus oftendoes great damage by defoliating trees and cultivated plants.

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INCANDESCENT

White, glowing, or luminous, with intense heat; as,incandescent carbon or platinum; hence, clear; shining; brilliant.Holy Scripture become resplendent; or, as one might say, incandescentthroughout. I. Taylor.Incandescent lamp or light (Elec.), a kind of lamp in which the lightis produced by a thin filament of conducting material, usuallycarbon, contained in a vacuum, and heated to incandescence by anelectric current, as in the Edison lamp; -- called also incandescencelamp, and glowlamp.

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RESHIPMENT

The act of reshipping; also, that which is reshippped.

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HARMONIC

A musical note produced by a number of vibrations which is amultiple of the number producing some other; an overtone. SeeHarmonics.

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MENSURABLENESS

The quality or state of being mensurable; measurableness.

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TWIGGER

A fornicator. [Eng.] Halliwell.

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DIGESTIBLENESS

The quality of being digestible; digestibility.

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HYMENOPTERAN

One of the Hymenoptera.

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PONTIFICALITY

The state and government of the pope; the papacy. [R.] Bacon.

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SNEEZEWEED

A yellow-flowered composite plant (Helenium autumnale) the odorof which is said to cause sneezing.