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07/01/2024

#82442

PROHIBITORY

Tending to prohibit, forbid, or exclude; implying prohibition;forbidding; as, a prohibitory law; a prohibitory price. Prohibitoryindex. (R. C. Ch.) See under Index.

#23836

NIM

To take; to steal; to filch. [Obs.]This canon it in his hand nam. Chaucer.

#81005

ISORCIN

A crystalline hydrocarbon derivative, metameric with orcin, butproduced artificially; -- called also cresorcin.

#73263

RATTLEMOUSE

A bat. [Obs.] Puttenham.

#49852

PROTEINACEOUS

Of or related to protein; albuminous; proteid.

#75423

ALLHALLOWN

Of or pertaining to the time of Allhallows. [Obs.] "Allhallownsummer." Shak. (i. e., late summer; "Indian Summer").

#33883

MISGOVERNED

Ill governed, as a people; ill directed. "Rude, misgovernedhands." Shak.

#5917

SOODRA

Same as Sudra.

#15371

BIBLICAL

Pertaining to, or derived from, the Bible; as, biblicallearning; biblical authority.

#22689

GUNFLINT

A sharpened flint for the lock of a gun, to ignite the charge.It was in common use before the introduction of percussion caps.

#25251

ZIRCONIUM

A rare element of the carbon-silicon group, intermediatebetween the metals and nonmetals, obtained from the mineral zircon asa dark sooty powder, or as a gray metallic crystalline substance.Symbol Zr. Atomic weight, 90.4.

#27016

EXTERMINATE

To eliminate, as unknown quantities. [R.]