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17/02/2024

#36083

BOYISH

Resembling a boy in a manners or opinions; belonging to a boy;childish; trifling; puerile.A boyish, odd conceit. Baillie.

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TALLIS

Same as Tallith.

#63971

PIG-STICKING

Boar hunting; -- so called by Anglo-Indians. [Colloq.]Tackeray.

#71835

TEMPORO-

A combining form used in anatomy to indicate connection with,or relation to, the temple, or temporal bone; as, temporofacial.

#23593

SAVELY

Safely. [Obs.] Chaucer.

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WARRIORESS

A female warrior. [Obs.] Spenser.

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CLUBFISTED

Having a large fist. Howell.

#45671

FORALITE

A tubelike marking, occuring in sandstone and other strata.

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UNDERGROVE

A grove of shrubs or low trees under taller ones. Wordsworth.

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CRYING

Calling for notice; compelling attention; notorious; heinous;as, a crying evil.Too much fondness for meditative retirement is not the crying sin ofour modern Christianity. I. Taylor.

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GEMELLIPA-ROUS

Producing twins. [R.] Bailey.

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CORONETED

Wearing, or entitled to wear, a coronet; of noble birth orrank.