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16/03/2024

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PAPESS

A female pope; i. e., the fictitious pope Joan. [Obs.] Bp.Hall.

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GREENHEAD

A state of greenness; verdancy. Chaucer.

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LACTOABUMIN

The albumin present on milk, apparently identical with ordinaryserum albumin. It is distinct from the casein of milk.

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INVALESCENCE

Strength; health. [Obs.]

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COMPANIONSHIP

Fellowship; association; the act or fact of keeping companywith any one. Shak.He never seemed to avail himself of my sympathy other than by merecompanionship. W. Irwing

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OXFLY

The gadfly of cattle.

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NATAL

Presiding over nativity; as, natal Jove.

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GRAFTER

An instrument by which grafting is facilitated.

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CUSPIDAL

Ending in a point.

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REPUBLICATION

A second publication, or a new publication of something beforepublished, as of a former will, of a volume already published, or thelike; specifically, the publication in one country of a work firstissued in another; a reprint.If there be many testaments, the last overthrows all the former; butthe republication of a former will revokes one of a later date, andestablishes the first. Blackstone.

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STONEGALL

See Stannel. [Prov. Eng.]

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BRYOZOUM

An individual zooid of a bryozoan coralline, of which there maybe two or more kinds in a single colony. The zooecia usually have awreath of tentacles around the mouth, and a well developed stomachand intestinal canal; but these parts are lacking in the other zooids(Avicularia, Ooecia, etc.).