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14/03/2024

#10154

IRREPEALABLE

Not repealable; not capable of being repealed or revoked, as alaw.-- Ir`re*peal"a*ble*ness, n.-- Ir`re*peal"a*bly, adv.

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ACCORDIONIST

A player on the accordion.

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CONFER

To have discourse; to consult; to compare views; to deliberate.Festus, when he had conferred with the council, answered. Acts xxv.12.You shall hear us confer of this. Shak.

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STEP-

A prefix used before father, mother, brother, sister, son,daughter, child, etc., to indicate that the person thus spoken of isnot a blood relative, but is a relative by the marriage of a parent;as, a stepmother to X is the wife of the father of X, married by himafter the death of the mother of X. See Stepchild, Stepdaughter,Stepson, etc.

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GALAGE

See Galoche. Spenser.

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BEGNAW

To gnaw; to eat away; to corrode.The worm of conscience still begnaw thy soul. Shak.

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SLEUTHHOUND

A hound that tracks animals by the scent; specifically, abloodhound. [Spelt variously slouthhound, sluthhound, etc.]

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PREDETERMINE

To determine beforehand.

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KEVER

i. To cover. [Obs.] Chaucer.

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DORYPHORA

A genus of plant-eating beetles, including the potato beetle.See Potato beetle.

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TIVY

With great speed; -- a huntsman's word or sound. Dryden.

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PROCONSUL

An officer who discharged the duties of a consul without beinghimself consul; a governor of, or a military commander in, aprovince. He was usually one who had previously been consul.