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18/07/2024

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DIAPHANOUS

Allowing light to pass through, as porcelain; translucent ortransparent; pellucid; clear.Another cloud in the region of them, light enough to be fantastic anddiaphanous. Landor.

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INCREASE

To become more nearly full; to show more of the surface; towax; as, the moon increases. Increasing function (Math.), a functionwhose value increases when that of the variable increases, anddecreases when the latter is diminished.

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DECHRISTIANIZE

To turn from, or divest of, Christianity.

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VINTNER

One who deals in wine; a wine seller, or wine merchant.

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INCHANGEABILITY

Unchangeableness. [Obs.] Kenrick.

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CRINCUM-CRANCUM

A twist; a whimsey or whim. [Colloq.]

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KERVER

A carver. [Obs.] Chaucer.

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UNDERSPEND

To spend less than.

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DIATHERMOUS

Same as Diathermal.

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THEOPHANY

A manifestation of God to man by actual appearance, usually asan incarnation.

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OBLUCTATION

A struggle against; resistance; opposition. [Obs.] Fotherby.

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FLYING SQUIRREL

One of a group of squirrels, of the genera Pteromus andSciuropterus, having parachute-like folds of skin extending from thefore to the hind legs, which enable them to make very long leaps.