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28/04/2024

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INFALLIBILIST

One who accepts or maintains the dogma of papal infallibility.

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OMNIFORM

Having every form or shape. Berkeley.

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FIREPLACE

The part a chimney appropriated to the fire; a hearth; --usually an open recess in a wall, in which a fire may be built.

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POLYMYOID

Having numerous vocal muscles; of or pertaining to thePolymyodæ.

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OLD-GENTLEMANLY

Pertaining to an old gentleman, or like one. Byron.

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NEWCOME

Recently come.

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GAVE

imp. of Give.

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SERPENTINELY

In a serpentine manner.

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AERATE

To expose to the chemical action of air; to oxygenate (theblood) by respiration; to arterialize. Aërated bread, bread raised bycharging dough with carbonic acid gas, instead of generating the gasin the dough by fermentation.

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COXA

The first joint of the leg of an insect or crustacean.

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MESSAGE STICK

A stick, carved with lines and dots, used, esp. by Australianaborigines, to convey information.

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MADEMOISELLE

A marine food fish (Sciæna chrysura), of the Southern UnitedStates; -- called also yellowtail, and silver perch.