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08/08/2024

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ADVANTAGE

To give an advantage to; to further; to promote; to benefit; toprofit.The truth is, the archbishop's own stiffness and averseness to complywith the court designs, advantaged his adversaries against him.Fuller.What is a man advantaged, if he gain the whole world, and losehimself, or be cast away Luke ix. 25.To advantage one's self of, to avail one's self of. [Obs.]

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SWAP

Hastily. [Prov. Eng.]

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THALLENE

A hydrocarbon obtained from coal-tar residues, and remarkablefor its intense yellowish green fluorescence.

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TELESCOPE

An optical instrument used in viewing distant objects, as theheavenly bodies.

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MUMBLER

One who mumbles.

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ALLIABLE

Able to enter into alliance.

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HYPNOSCOPE

An instrument for ascertaining the susceptibility of a personto hypnotic influences.

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CONCRETE

A term designating both a quality and the subject in which itexists; a concrete term.The concretes "father" and "son" have, or might have, the abstracts"paternity" and "filiety". J. S. Mill.

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SHOOI

The Richardson's skua (Stercorarius parasiticus);- so calledfrom its cry. [Prov. Eng.]

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CARANX

A genus of fishes, common on the Atlantic coast, including theyellow or goldon mackerel.

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BALBUTIES

The defect of stammering; also, a kind of incompletepronunciation.

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AGOUTA

A small insectivorous mammal (Solenodon paradoxus), allied tothe moles, found only in Hayti.