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01/07/2024

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PHOTOTHEODOLITE

An arrangement of two photographic cameras, the plates of whichmay be brought into exactly the same plane, used in surveying and mapmaking. From the differences between two pictures taken at the samemoment, measurements in all dimensions of the region may be obtained.

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UNCONSTANCY

Inconstancy. [Obs.] "The unconstancy of the foundation."Fuller.

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SCATHLESS

Unharmed. R. L. Stevenson.He, too, . . . is to be dismissed scathless. Sir W. Scott.

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SOMATOME

See Somite.

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PSEUDOSCOPE

An instrument which exhibits objects with their proper reliefreversed; -- an effect opposite to that produced by the stereoscope.Wheatstone.

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LEONTODON

A genus of liguliflorous composite plants, including the falldandelion (L. autumnale), and formerly the true dandelion; -- calledalso lion's tooth.

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ADJACENTLY

So as to be adjacent.

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PHELLOPLASTICS

Art of modeling in cork.

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DISDAIN

To be filled with scorn; to feel contemptuous anger; to behaughty.And when the chief priests and scribes saw the marvels that he did .. . they disdained. Genevan Testament (Matt. xxi. 15).

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WEAPONRY

Weapons, collectively; as, an array of weaponry. [Poetic]

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ANACAMPTICALLY

By reflection; as, echoes are sound produced anacamptically.Hutton.

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DUNE

A low hill of drifting sand usually formed on the coats, butoften carried far inland by the prevailing winds. [Written also dun.]Three great rivers, the Rhine, the Meuse, and the Scheldt, haddeposited their slime for ages among the dunes or sand banks heavedup by the ocean around their mouths. Motley.