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10/07/2024

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APHEMIA

Loss of the power of speaking, while retaining the power ofwriting; -- a disorder of cerebral origin.

#33529

QUACKERY

The acts, arts, or boastful pretensions of a quack; falsepretensions to any art; empiricism. Carlyle.

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STOCKADE

A line of stout posts or timbers set firmly in the earth incontact with each other (and usually with loopholes) to form abarrier, or defensive fortification. [Written also stoccade.]

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TRUCK

A swiveling carriage, consisting of a frame with one or morepairs of wheels and the necessary boxes, springs, etc., to carry andguide one end of a locomotive or a car; -- sometimes called bogie inEngland. Trucks usually have four or six wheels.

#7956

WEIVE

See Waive. [Obs.] Gower.

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CERRIS

A species of oak (Quercus cerris) native in the Orient andsouthern Europe; -- called also bitter oak and Turkey oak.

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WITHSTOOD

oWithstand.

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OMITTANCE

The act of omitting, or the state of being omitted;forbearance; neglect. Shak.

#75524

HOP

A climbing plant (Humulus Lupulus), having a long, twining,annual stalk. It is cultivated for its fruit (hops).

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SCHIZOPHYTE

One of a class of vegetable organisms, in the classification ofCohn, which includes all of the inferior forms that multiply byfission, whether they contain chlorophyll or not.

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MEWLER

One that mewls.

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DICOTYLEDON

A plant whose seeds divide into two seed lobes, or cotyledons,in germinating.