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15/07/2024

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MUCINOGEN

Same as Mucigen.

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REFRACTIVE

Serving or having power to refract, or turn from a directcourse; pertaining to refraction; as, refractive surfaces; refractivepowers. Refractive index. (Opt.) See Index of refraction, underIndex.-- Absolute refractive index (Opt.), the index of refraction of asubstances when the ray passes into it from a vacuum.-- Relative refractive index (of two media) (Opt.), the ratio of thesine of the angle of incidence to the sine of the angle of refractionfor a ray passing out of one of the media into the other.

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GASTROPODA

One of the classes of Mollusca, of great extent. It includesmost of the marine spiral shells, and the land and fresh-watersnails. They generally creep by means of a flat, muscular disk, orfoot, on the ventral side of the body. The head usually bears one ortwo pairs of tentacles. See Mollusca. [Written also Gasteropoda.]

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REPENTLESS

Unrepentant. [R.]

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CUBEB

The small, spicy berry of a species of pepper (Piper Cubeba; inmed., Cubeba officinalis), native in Java and Borneo, but nowcultivated in various tropical countries. The dried unripe fruit ismuch used in medicine as a stimulant and purgative.

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RIGHTEN

To do justice to. [Obs.]Relieve [marginal reading, righten] the opressed. Isa. i. 17.

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HOVEL

A large conical brick structure around which the firing kilnsare grouped. Knight.

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MODERN

A person of modern times; -- opposed to ancient. Pope.

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SKIMITRY

See Skimmington.

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REFECTORY

A room for refreshment; originally, a dining hall inmonasteries or convents.

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FLIDGE

Fledged; fledge. [Obs.] Holland.

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STEREOSTATIC

Geostatic.