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08/02/2024

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FISHLIKE

Like fish; suggestive of fish; having some of the qualities offish.A very ancient and fishlike smell. Shak.

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WITTINGLY

Knowingly; with knowledge; by design.

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TEREBRA

A genus of marine gastropods having a long, tapering spire.They belong to the Toxoglossa. Called also auger shell.

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ENVIER

One who envies; one who desires inordinately what anotherpossesses.

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ANACOLUTHON

A want of grammatical sequence or coherence in a sentence; aninstance of a change of construction in a sentence so that the latterpart does not syntactically correspond with the first part.

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BRAVINGLY

In a defiant manner.

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LAWMONGER

A trader in law; one who practices law as if it were a trade.Milton.

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HASTE

To hasten; to hurry. [Archaic]I 'll haste the writer. Shak.They were troubled and hasted away. Ps. xlviii. 5.

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RESIANCE

Residence; abode. [Obs.] Bacon.

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TORPEDOIST

One skilled in the theory or use of torpedoes; also, one whofavors the use of torpedoes.

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COEXTEND

To extend through the same space or time with another; toextend to the same degree.According to which the least body may be coextended with thegreatest. Boyle.Has your English language one single word that is coextended throughall these significations Bentley.

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DIMBLE

A bower; a dingle. [Obs.] Drayton.