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14/06/2024

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MAGNETOMETER

An instrument for measuring the intensity of magnetic forces;also, less frequently, an instrument for determining any of theterrestrial magnetic elements, as the dip and declination.

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PORPHYRIZATION

The act of porphyrizing, or the state of being porphyrized.

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SQUAM

An oilskin hat or southwester; -- a fisherman's name. [U. S.]

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MAQUI

A Chilian shrub (Aristotelia Maqui). Its bark furnishes stringsfor musical instruments, and a medicinal wine is made from itsberries.

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NONCOHESION

Want of cohesion.

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STREAK

To stretch; to extend; hence, to lay out, as a dead body. [Obs.or Prov. Eng. & Scot.]

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LASSITUDE

A condition of the body, or mind, when its voluntary functionsare performed with difficulty, and only by a strong exertion of thewill; languor; debility; weariness.The corporeal instruments of action being strained to a high pitch .. . will soon feel a lassitude. Barrow.

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MIRRORSCOPE

See Projector, below.

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OPHIOMANCY

Divination by serpents, as by their manner of eating, or bytheir coils.

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POWERFUL

Large; capacious; -- said of veins of ore.

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BALLOONED

Swelled out like a balloon.

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STOREY

See Story.