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05/10/2026

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SKAIN

See Skein. [Obs.]

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OPHIOPHAGOUS

Feeding on serpents; -- said of certain birds and reptiles.

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LIPSE

To lisp. [Obs.] Chaucer.

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PHOTO-ETCHING

A photo-engraving produced by any process involving the etchingof the plate.

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CAPOCH

A hood; especialy, the hood attached to the gown of a monk.

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ACCREMENTITION

The process of generation by development of blastema, orfission of cells, in which the new formation is in all respect likethe individual from which it proceeds.

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BUR FISH

A spinose, plectognath fish of the Allantic coast of the UnitedStates (esp. Chilo mycterus geometricus) having the power ofdistending its body with water or air, so as to resemble a chestnutbur; -- called also ball fish, balloon fish, and swellfish.

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DREW

of Draw.

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INANGULAR

Not angular. [Obs.]

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PERRON

An out-of-door flight of steps, as in a garden, leading to aterrace or to an upper story; -- usually applied to mediævel or laterstructures of some architectural pretensions.

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READEPTION

A regaining; recovery of something lost. [Obs.] Bacon.

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HETEROMERA

A division of Coleoptera, having heteromerous tarsi.