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17/08/2024

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INVERSION

A movement in tactics by which the order of companies in lineis inverted, the right being on the left, the left on the right, andso on.

#44413

AIR-SLACKED

Slacked, or pulverized, by exposure to the air; as, air-slackedlime.

#62140

EDIFYING

Instructing; improving; as, an edifying conversation.-- Ed"i*fy`ing*ly, adv.-- Ed"i*fy`ing*ness, n.

#32621

CONDOTTIERE

A military adventurer of the fourteenth and fifteenthcenturies, who sold his services, and those of his followers, to anyparty in any contest.

#76760

CHYLOPOETIC

Concerned in the formation of chyle; as, the chylopoeticorgans.

#8964

METANAUPLIUS

A larval crustacean in a stage following the nauplius, andhaving about seven pairs of appendages.

#79008

FARANDOLE

A rapid dance in six-eight time in which a large number joinhands and dance in various figures, sometimes moving from room toroom. It originated in Provence.

#19838

SPOONDRIFT

Spray blown from the tops waves during a gale at sea; also,snow driven in the wind at sea; -- written also spindrift.

#83290

SENSITIVITY

The quality or state of being sensitive; -- used chiefly inscience and the arts; as, the sensitivity of iodized silver.Sensitivity and emotivity have also been used as the scientific termfor the capacity of feeling. Hickok.

#50992

VENEREAN

Devoted to the offices of Venus, or love; venereal. [Obs.] "Iam all venerean in feeling." Chaucer.

#55463

CUP-GALL

A kind of oak-leaf gall. See Gall.

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SEMIFLEXED

Half bent.