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25/04/2024

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PHARMACEUTIST

One skilled in pharmacy; a druggist. See the Note underApothecary.

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INTRAPARIETAL

Situated or occurring within an inclosure; shut off from publicsight; private; secluded; retired.I have no Turkish proclivities, and I do not think that, after all,impaling is preferable as a mode of capital punishment tointraparietal hanging. Roll

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UPGROW

To grow up. [R.] Milton.

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MADDING

Affected with madness; raging; furious.-- Mad"ding*ly, adv. [Archaic]Far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife. Gray.The madding wheels Of brazen chariots raged. Milton.

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GONIMOUS

Pertaining to, or containing, gonidia or gonimia, as that partof a lichen which contains the green or chlorophyll-bearing cells.

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ACETABULAR

Cup-shaped; saucer-shaped; acetabuliform.

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RUSSIANIZE

To make Russian, or more or less like the Russians; as, toRussianize the Poles.

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EQUIVOCALLY

In an equivocal manner.

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AMBIPAROUS

Characterized by containing the rudiments of both flowers andleaves; -- applied to a bud.

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SWAGE

See Assuage. [Obs.]

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PROFLIGATE

An abandoned person; one openly and shamelessly vicious; adissolute person. "Such a profligate as Antony." Swift.

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GRANTEE

The person to whom a grant or conveyance is made.His grace will not survive the poor grantee he despises. Burke.