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22/02/2024

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BABY FARMER

One who keeps a baby farm.

#573

COVEY

To brood; to incubate. [Obs.][Tortoises] covey a whole year before they hatch. Holland.

#75625

GROOVE

A shaft or excavation. [Prov. Eng.]

#45592

CARBON STEEL

Steel deriving its qualities from carbon chiefly, without thepresence of other alloying elements; --opposed to alloy steel.

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EXCUBITORIUM

A gallery in a church, where persons watched all night.

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LUCENCY

The quality of being lucent.

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OTTO CYCLE

A four-stroke cycle for internal-combustion engines consistingof the following operations: First stroke, suction into cylinder ofexplosive charge, as of gas and air; second stroke, compression,ignition, and explosion of this charge; third stroke (the workingstroke), expansion of the gases; fourth stroke, expulsion of theproducts of combustion from the cylinder. This is the cycle inventedby Beau de Rochas in 1862 and applied by Dr. Otto in 1877 in theOtto-Crossley gas engine, the first commercially successful internal-combustion engine made.

#49278

GOUJERE

The venereal disease. [Obs.]

#63356

SUPRAVULGAR

Being above the vulgar or common people. [R.] Collier.

#17237

IMPACKMENT

The state of being closely surrounded, crowded, or pressed, asby ice. [R.] Kane.

#23389

NUTRITIONAL

Of or pertaining to nutrition; as, nutritional changes.

#2444

ALGIDNESS

Algidity. [Obs.]