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18/06/2024

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INVERTEBRATE

Destitute of a backbone; having no vertebræ; of or pertainingto the Invertebrata.-- n.

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INTERVISIT

To exchange visits. [R.] Evelyn.

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UNTREAD

To tread back; to retrace. Shak.

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DAPPERLING

A dwarf; a dandiprat. [r.]

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MATRIARCH

The mother and ruler of a family or of her descendants; a rulerby maternal right.

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TRAITORESS

A traitress. [Obs.] Rom. of R.

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PLANISPHERIC

Of or pertaining to a planisphere.

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GLOBOSITY

Sphericity. Ray.

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REMONSTRATE

To point out; to show clearly; to make plain or manifest;hence, to prove; to demonstrate. [Obs.] Jer. Taylor.I will remonstrate to you the third door. B. Jonson.

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QUARTER-SAW

To saw (a log) into quarters; specif., to saw into quarters andthen into boards, as by cutting alternately from each face of aquarter, to secure lumber that will warp relatively little or showthe grain advantageously.

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PRENTICESHIP

Apprenticeship. [Obs. or Colloq.]He served a prenticeship who sets up shop. Pope.

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POLISHING

a. & n. from Polish. Polishing iron, an iron burnisher; esp., asmall smoothing iron used in laundries.-- Polishing slate. (a) A gray or yellow slate, found in Bohemia andAuvergne, and used for polishing glass, marble, and metals. (b) Akind of hone or whetstone; hone slate.-- Polishing snake, a tool used in cleaning lithographic stones.-- Polishing wheel, a wheel or disk coated with, or composed of,abrading material, for polishing a surface.