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06/05/2024

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PLAQUE

Any flat, thin piece of metal, clay, ivory, or the like, usedfor ornament, or for painting pictures upon, as a slab, plate, dish,or the like, hung upon a wall; also, a smaller decoration worn on theperson, as a brooch.

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TESTONE

A silver coin of Portugal, worth about sixpence sterling, orabout eleven cents. Homans.

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GLIBNESS

The quality of being glib.

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INVOKE

To call on for aid or protection; to invite earnestly orsolemnly; to summon; to address in prayer; to solicit or demand byinvocation; to implore; as, to invoke the Supreme Being, or to invokeHis and blessing.Go, my dread lord, to your great grandsire's tomb, . . . Invoke hiswarlike spirit. Shak.

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JUSTIFIER

One who justifies; one who vindicates, supports, defends, orabsolves.Justifiers of themselves and hypocrites. Strype.That he might be just, and the justifier of him which believeth inJesus. Rom. iii. 26.

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OECONOMICAL

See Economical.

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DEXTROGLUCOSE

Same as Dextrose.

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MAYFLOWER

In England, the hawthorn; in New England, the trailing arbutus(see Arbutus); also, the blossom of these plants.

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COFFERWORK

Rubblework faced with stone. Knight.

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BLACK FRIDAY

Any Friday on which a public disaster has occurred, as: InEngland, December 6, 1745, when the news of the landing of thePretender reached London, or May 11, 1866, when a financial paniccommenced. In the United States, September 24, 1869, and September18, 1873, on which financial panics began.

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MECHANICAL

A mechanic. [Obs.] Shak.

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MONROE DOCTRINE

See under Doctrine.