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22/05/2024

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ESCHAUNGE

Exchange. [Obs.]

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ANTIBRACHIAL

Of or pertaining to the antibrachium, or forearm.

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STILLIFORM

Having the form of a drop. Owen.

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CROPSICK

Sick from excess in eating or drinking. [Obs.] "Cropsickdrunkards." Tate.-- Crop"sick`ness, n. [Obs.] Whitlock.

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NOMINATIVE

Giving a name; naming; designating; -- said of that case orform of a noun which stands as the subject of a finite verb.-- n.

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TRIAMINE

An amine containing three amido groups.

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PROVOKE

To call forth; to call into being or action; esp., to incenseto action, a faculty or passion, as love, hate, or ambition; hence,commonly, to incite, as a person, to action by a challenge, bytaunts, or by defiance; to exasperate; to irritate; to offendintolerably; to cause to retaliate.Obey his voice, provoke him not. Ex. xxiii. 21.Ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath. Eph. vi. 4.Such acts Of contumacy will provoke the Highest To make death in uslive. Milton.Can honor's voice provoke the silent dust Gray.To the poet the meaning is what he pleases to make it, what itprovokes in his own soul. J. Burroughs.

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GUGGLE

See Gurgle.

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IMBOUND

To inclose in limits; to shut in. [Obs.] Shak.

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LAMELLIROSTRAL

Having a lamellate bill, as ducks and geese.

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HYPOCORISTIC

Endearing; diminutive; as, the hypocoristic form of a name.The hypocoristic or pet form of William. Dr. Murray.

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PLETHORIC

Haeving a full habit of body; characterized by plethora orexcess of blood; as, a plethoric constitution; -- used alsometaphorically. "Plethoric phrases." Sydney Smith. "Plethoricfullness of thought." De Quincey.