12 new words everyday

05/01/2024

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CANDIDLY

In a candid manner.

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POETASTER

An inferior rhymer, or writer of verses; a dabbler in poeticart.The talk of forgotten poetasters. Macaulay.

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POTOO

A large South American goatsucker (Nyctibius grandis).

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TAMWORTH

One of a long-established English breed of large pigs. They arered, often spotted with black, with a long snout and erect orforwardly pointed ears, and are valued as bacon producers.

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SIB

A blood relation. [Obs.] Nash.

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ARTICLE

One of the three words, a, an, the, used before nouns to limitor define their application. A (or an) is called the indefinitearticle, the the definite article.

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POLLENIFEROUS

Producing pollen; polliniferous.

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DOVEKIE

A guillemot (Uria grylle), of the arctic regions. Also appliedto the little auk or sea dove. See under Dove.

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RANA

A genus of anurous batrachians, including the common frogs.

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ECTORGANISM

An external parasitic organism.

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TAIRN

See Tarn. Coleridge.

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ENSEAM

To sew up; to inclose by a seam; hence, to include; to contain.Camden.