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19/04/2024

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SOBERNESS

The quality or state of being sober.

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AERY

An aerie.

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GRAAFIAN

Pertaining to, or discovered by, Regnier de Graaf, a Dutchphysician. Graafian follicles or vesicles, small cavities in whichthe ova are developed in the ovaries of mammals, and by the burstingof which they are discharged.

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LONGULITE

A kind of crystallite having a (slender) acicular form.

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WERREY

To warray. [Obs.] Chaucer.

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SOHO

Ho; -- a word used in calling from a distant place; asportsman's halloo. Shak.

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MISAPPROPRIATE

To appropriate wrongly; to use for a wrong purpose.

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DUKESHIP

The quality or condition of being a duke; also, the personalityof a duke. Massinger.

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MARMOSE

A species of small opossum (Didelphus murina) ranging fromMexico to Brazil.

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PROTYLE

The hypothetical homogeneous cosmic material of the originaluniverse, supposed to have been differentiated into what arerecognized as distinct chemical elements.

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ESSONITE

Cinnamon stone, a variety of garnet. See Garnet.

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SLUE

To turn about a fixed point, usually the center or axis, as aspar or piece of timber; to turn; -- used also of any heavy body.