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12/02/2024

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TOWNLET

A small town. North Brit. Rev.

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SHADILY

In a shady manner.

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PYET

A magpie; a piet. [Prov. Eng.]Here cometh the worthy prelate as pert as a pyet. Sir W. Scott.

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REDAN

A work having two parapets whose faces unite so as to form asalient angle toward the enemy.

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PREVIOUSLY

Beforehand; antecedently; as, a plan previously formed.

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TITHLY

Tightly; nimbly. [Obs.] "I have seen him trip it tithly." Beau.& Fl.

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BANTU

A member of one of the great family of Negroid tribes occupyingequatorial and southern Africa. These tribes include, as importantdivisions, the Kafirs, Damaras, Bechuanas, and many tribes whosenames begin with Aba-, Ama-, Ba-, Ma-, Wa-, variants of the Bantuplural personal prefix Aba-, as in Ba-ntu, or Aba-ntu, itself acombination of this prefix with the syllable -ntu, a person. --Ban"tu, a.

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UROPOETIC

Producing, or favoring the production of, urine.

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CETACEAN

One of the Cetacea.

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WOODNESS

Anger; madness; insanity; rage. [Obs.] Spenser.Woodness laughing in his rage. Chaucer.

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ASSAY TON

A weight of 29.166 + grams used in assaying, for convenience.Since it bears the same relation to the milligram that a ton of 2000avoirdupois pounds does to the troy ounce, the weight in milligramsof precious metal obtained from an assay ton of ore gives directlythe number of ounces to the ton.

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GANGETIC

Pertaining to, or inhabiting, the Ganges; as, the Gangeticshark.