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26/05/2024

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BY-DRINKING

A drinking between meals. [Obs.]

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PAQUE

See Pasch and Easter.

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SKULKINGLY

In a skulking manner.

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CUMSHAW

A present or bonus; -- originally applied to that paid on shipswhich entered the port of Canton. S. Wells Williams.

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FRAMER

One who frames; as, the framer of a building; the framers ofthe Constitution.

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REGRET

To experience regret on account of; to lose or miss with asense of regret; to feel sorrow or dissatisfaction on account of (thehappening or the loss of something); as, to regret an error; toregret lost opportunities or friends.Calmly he looked on either life, and here Saw nothing to regret, orthere to fear. Pope.In a few hours they [the Israelites] began to regret their slavery,and to murmur against their leader. Macaulay.Recruits who regretted the plow from which they had been violentlytaken. Macaulay.

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GALACTOPHAGIST

One who eats, or subsists on, milk.

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PLEONAST

One who is addicted to pleonasm. [R.] C. Reade.

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CHEERINGLY

In a manner to cheer or encourage.

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MALMAG

The tarsius, or spectral lemur.

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CONVERTEND

Any proposition which is subject to the process of conversion;-- so called in its relation to itself as converted, after whichprocess it is termed the conversae. See Converse, n. (Logic).

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EXTEMPORIZE

To speak extempore; especially, to discourse without specialpreparation; to make an offhand address.