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24/03/2024

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TANGIBILITY

The quality or state of being tangible.

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BLOCK BOOK

A book printed from engraved wooden blocks instead of movabletypes.

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PIPEWOOD

An ericaceous shrub (Leucothoë acuminata) of the southernUnited States, from the wood of which pipe bowls are made.

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DESECRATE

To divest of a sacred character or office; to divert from asacred purpose; to violate the sanctity of; to profane; to put to anunworthy use; -- the opposite of consecrate.The [Russian] clergy can not suffer corporal punishment without beingpreviously desecrated. W. Tooke.The founders of monasteries imprecated evil on those who shoulddesecrate their donations. Salmon.

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EMPIERCE

To pierce; to impierce. [Obs.] Spenser.

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BENTHAMIC

Of or pertaining to Bentham or Benthamism.

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ARGENTIC

Pertaining to, derived from, or containing, silver; -- said ofcertain compounds of silver in which this metal has its lowestproportion; as, argentic chloride.

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RED-RIBAND

The European red band fish, or fireflame. See Rend fish.

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NUMBLESS

See Nombles.

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BATEMENT

Abatement; diminution. Moxon. Batement light (Arch.), a windowor one division of a window having vertical sides, but with the sillnot horizontal, as where it follows the rake of a staircase.

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GLOWWORM

A coleopterous insect of the genus Lampyris; esp., the winglessfemales and larvæ of the two European species (L. noctiluca, and L.splendidula), which emit light from some of the abdominal segments.Like a glowworm in the night, The which hath fire in darkness, nonein light. Shak.

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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.).