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07/07/2024

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HUFFCAP

A blusterer; a bully. [Obs.] -- a.

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COPPED

Rising to a point or head; conical; pointed; crested. Wiseman.

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CARANX

A genus of fishes, common on the Atlantic coast, including theyellow or goldon mackerel.

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INDIGNITY

Any action toward another which manifests contempt for him; anoffense against personal dignity; unmerited contemptuous treatment;contumely; incivility or injury, accompanied with insult.How might a prince of my great hopes forget So great indignities youlaid upon me Shak.A person of so great place and worth constrained to endure so foulindignities. Hooker.

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UNQUALIFY

To disqualify; to unfit. Swift.

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NORTHEASTERN

Of or pertaining to the northeast; northeasterly.

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INTERCARPAL

Between the carpal bone; as, intercarpal articulations,ligaments.

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VORTICELLA

Any one of numerous species of ciliated Infusoria belonging toVorticella and many other genera of the family Vorticellidæ. Theyhave a more or less bell-shaped body with a circle of vibrating ciliaaround the oral disk. Most of the species have slender, contractilestems, either simple or branched.

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LIGAMENT

Composing a ligament; of the nature of a ligament; binding; as,a strong ligamentous membrane.

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NEWS-LETTER

A circular letter, written or printed for the purpose ofdisseminating news. This was the name given to the earliest Englishnewspapers.

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RUMPLE

To make uneven; to form into irregular inequalities; towrinkle; to crumple; as, to rumple an apron or a cravat.They would not give a dog's ear of their most rumpled and raggedScoth paper for twenty of your fairest assignats. Burke.

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SUBUMBONAL

Beneath or forward of the umbos of a bivalve shell.