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PRESIDENT

Precedent. [Obs.] Bacon.

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INTERVENT

To thwart; to obstruct. [Obs.] Chapman.

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EVOLVE

To become open, disclosed, or developed; to pass through aprocess of evolution. Prior.

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INTENSIVE

Serving to give force or emphasis; as, an intensive verb orpreposition.

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IMPREGNATION

The fusion of a female germ cell (ovum) with a male germ cell(in animals, a spermatozoön) to form a single new cell endowed withthe power of developing into a new individual; fertilization;fecundation.

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CACUMINATE

To make sharp or pointed. [Obs.]

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DESTITUTENESS

Destitution. [R.] Ash.

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PHANEROGAMIA

That one of the two primary divisions of the vegetable kingdomwhich contains the phanerogamic, or flowering, plants.

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CUBBRIDGE-HEAD

A bulkhead on the forecastle and half deck of a ship.

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MOIDER

To toil. [Prov. Eng. & Scot.]

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ALLNIGHT

Light, fuel, or food for the whole night. [Obs.] Bacon.

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PSEUDO-SYMMETRY

A kind of symmetry characteristic of certain crystals whichfrom twinning, or other causes, come to resemble forms of a systemother than that to which they belong, as the apparently hexagonalprisms of aragonite.