12 new words everyday
29/06/2024
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TOME
TOME
As many writings as are bound in a volume, forming part of alarger work; a book; -- usually applied to a ponderous volume.Tomes of fable and of dream. Cowper.A more childish expedient than that to which he now resorted is notto be found in all the tomes of the casuists. Macaulay.
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GALEA
GALEA
The upper lip or helmet-shaped part of a labiate flower.
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INERADICABLE
INERADICABLE
Incapable of beingThe bad seed thus sown was ineradicable. Ld. Lytton.
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HEBETUDE
HEBETUDE
Dullness; stupidity. Harvey.
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SPICOSE
SPICOSE
Having spikes, or ears, like corn spikes.
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CIPHERER
CIPHERER
One who ciphers.
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DOLL
DOLL
A child's puppet; a toy baby for a little girl.
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TUNNAGE
TUNNAGE
See Tonnage.
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WOODKNACKER
WOODKNACKER
The yaffle.
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DORYPHOROS
DORYPHOROS
A spear bearer; a statue of a man holding a spear or in theattitude of a spear bearer. Several important sculptures of thissubject existed in antiquity, copies of which remain to us.
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BRANGLEMENT
BRANGLEMENT
Wrangle; brangle. [Obs.]
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FOREBY
FOREBY
Near; hard by; along; past. See Forby. Spenser.