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04/08/2024

#32065

TRIFARIOUS

Facing three ways; arranged in three vertical ranks, as theleaves of veratrum.

#56722

TENESMUS

An urgent and distressing sensation, as if a discharge from theintestines must take place, although none can be effected; -- alwaysreferred to the lower extremity of the rectum. Vesical tenesmus, asimilar sensation as to the evacuation of urine, referred to theregion of the bladder.

#40410

HELL-CAT

A witch; a hag. Middleton.

#76590

PICAYUNE

A small coin of the value of six and a quarter cents. SeeFippenny bit. [Local, U.S.]

#5095

FRIEZE

A kind of coarse woolen cloth or stuff with a shaggy or tufted(friezed) nap on one side. "Robes of frieze." Goldsmith.

#42221

RETRUDE

To thrust back. [R.] Dr. H. More.

#17608

ROOSTER

The male of the domestic fowl; a cock. [U.S.]Nor, when they [the Skinners and Cow Boys] wrung the neck of arooster, did they trouble their heads whether he crowed for Congressor King George. W. Irving.

#63632

CRINOSE

Hairy. [R.]

#36580

WRISTER

A covering for the wrist.

#27071

FLAGITATION

Importunity; urgent demand. [Archaic] Carlyle.

#20004

LOUCHETTES

Goggles intended to rectify strabismus by permitting visiononly directly in front. Knight.

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WRIGGLER

One who, or that which, wriggles. Cowper.