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29/07/2024

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STRIGOSE

Set with stiff, straight bristles; hispid; as, a strigose leaf.

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DULL

To become dull or stupid. Rom. of R.

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CURSE

To utter imprecations or curses; to affirm or deny withimprecations; to swear.Then began he to curse and to swear. Matt. xxi. 74.His spirits hear me, And yet I need must curse. Shak.

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RUBIFY

To redden. [R.] "Waters rubifying." Chaucer.

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ABASHEDLY

In an abashed manner.

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ALGOLOGY

The study or science of algæ or seaweeds.

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PREPOSITURE

The office or dignity of a provost; a provostship. Lowth.

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TRUSTEE STOCK

High-grade stock in which trust funds may be legally invested.[Colloq.]

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TOPONYM

A name of a place; more broadly, a name, as in the binomialname of a plant, based on, or derived from, a place name, or based onthe location of the thing named.

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DEDUPLICATION

The division of that which is morphologically one organ intotwo or more, as the division of an organ of a plant into a pair orcluster.

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KOHL

A mixture of soot and other ingredients, used by Egyptian andother Eastern women to darken the edges of the eyelids.

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KNARRY

Knotty; gnarled. Chaucer.