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27/04/2024

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HEART-EATING

Preying on the heart.

#31337

MENTOMECKELIAN

Of or pertaining to the chin and lower jaw.-- n.

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DESPONDENCY

The state of desponding; loss of hope and cessation of effort;discouragement; depression or dejection of the mind.The unhappy prince seemed, during some days, to be sunk indespondency. Macaulay.

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THAWY

Liquefying by heat after having been frozen; thawing; melting.

#25803

SCABBARD PLANE

See Scaleboard plane, under Scaleboard.

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LITHOPHOSPHORIC

Pertaining to lithophosphor; becoming phosphoric by heat.

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INSTABLENESS

Instability; unstableness.

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COUCH GRASS

See Quitch grass.

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BRONCHIOLE

A minute bronchial tube.

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PONTIFF

A high priest. Especially:(a) One of the sacred college, in ancient Rome, which had the supremejurisdiction over all matters of religion, at the head of which wasthe Pontifex Maximus. Dr. W. Smith.(b) (Jewish Antiq.) The chief priest.(c) (R. C. Ch.) The pope.

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TURM

A troop; a company. [Obs. or Poetic]Legions and cohorts, turms of horse and wings. Milton.

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GIVE

To set forth as a known quantity or a known relation, or as apremise from which to reason; -- used principally in the passive formgiven.