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10/08/2024

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VINGTUN

Contraction for Vingt et un.

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ATTRY

Poisonous; malignant; malicious. [Obs.] Chaucer.

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LITHOCARP

Fossil fruit; a fruit petrified; a carpolite.

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SWINGTREE

The bar of a carriage to which the traces are fastened; thewhiffletree.

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REDUB

To refit; to repair, or make reparation for; hence, to repay orrequite. [Obs.]It shall be good that you redub that negligence. Wyatt.God shall give power to redub it with some like requital to theFrench. Grafton.

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UNSEXUAL

Not sexual; not proper or peculiar to one of the sexes. DeQuincey.

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WAXBERRY

The wax-covered fruit of the wax myrtle, or bayberry. SeeBayberry, and Candleberry tree.

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TRUDGEMAN

A truchman. [Obs.]

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SWAP

Hastily. [Prov. Eng.]

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MAGNETO-

A prefix meaning pertaining to, produced by, or in some wayconnected with, magnetism.

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CIRCEAN

Having the characteristics of Circe, daughter of Sol andPerseis, a mythological enchantress, who first charmed her victimsand then changed them to the forms of beasts; pleasing, but noxious;as, a Circean draught.

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BLITHE

Gay; merry; sprightly; joyous; glad; cheerful; as, a blithespirit.The blithe sounds of festal music. Prescott.A daughter fair, So buxom, blithe, and debonair. Milton.