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19/02/2024

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CYCLOSTOME

A division of Bryozoa, in which the cells have circularapertures.

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SQUAWBERRY

A local name for the partridge berry; also, for the deerberry.[U. S.]

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POI

A national food of the Hawaiians, made by baking and poundingthe kalo (or taro) root, and reducing it to a thin paste, which isallowed to ferment.

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MASSICOT

Lead protoxide, PbO, obtained as a yellow amorphous powder, thefused and crystalline form of which is called litharge; lead ocher.It is used as a pigment.

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DITCH

To dig a ditch or ditches. Swift.

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GRAVID

Being with child; heavy with young; pregnant; fruitful; as, agravid uterus; gravid piety. " His gravid associate." Sir T. Herbert.

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MAGISTERIALITY

Magisterialness; authoritativeness. [R.] Fuller.

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CROTTLES

A name given to various lichens gathered for dyeing. [Scot.]

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FEATHER

A longitudinal strip projecting as a fin from an object, tostrengthen it, or to enter a channel in another object and therebyprevent displacement sidwise but permit motion lengthwise; a spline.

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VICENARY

Of or pertaining to twenty; consisting of twenty.

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SHOPLIFTER

One who steals anything in a shop, or takes goods privatelyfrom a shop; one who, under pretense of buying goods, takes occasionto steal.

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VIRGULARIAN

Any one of numerous species of long, slender Alcyonariabelonging to Virgularia and allied genera of the family Virgularidæ.These corals are allied to the sea-pens, but have a long rodlikerhachis inclosing a slender, round or square, calcareous axis. Thepolyps are arranged in transverse rows or clusters along each side ofthe rhachis.