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26/07/2024

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HYDROPHORA

The Hydroidea.

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ENDOPHYLLOUS

Wrapped up within a leaf or sheath.

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UNSENSIBLE

Insensible. [Obs.]

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LEVULIN

A substance resembling dextrin, obtained from the bulbs of thedahlia, the artichoke, and other sources, as a colorless, spongy,amorphous material. It is so called because by decomposition ityields levulose. [Written also lævulin.]

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SLAUGHTERER

One who slaughters.

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MESODERMAL

Pertaining to, or derived from, the mesoderm; as, mesodermaltissues.

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PLATONIZER

One who Platonizes.

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TRUCHMAN

An interpreter. See Dragoman. [Obs.]And after, by the tongue, Her truchman, she reports the mind's eachthrow. B. Jonson.

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HALFNESS

The quality of being half; incompleteness. [R.]As soon as there is any departure from simplicity, and attempt athalfness, or good for me that is not good for him, my neighbor feelsthe wrong. Emerson.

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ABUSIVELY

In an abusive manner; rudely; with abusive language.

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OGRE

An imaginary monster, or hideous giant of fairy tales, wholived on human beings; hence, any frightful giant; a cruel monster.His schoolroom must have resembled an ogre's den. Maccaulay.

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PALPOCIL

A minute soft filamentary process springing from the surface ofcertain hydroids and sponges.