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01/09/2024

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LITHOCARP

Fossil fruit; a fruit petrified; a carpolite.

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WAYWISER

An instrument for measuring the distance which one has traveledon the road; an odometer, pedometer, or perambulator.The waywiser to a coach, exactly measuring the miles, and showingthem by an index. Evelyn.

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ANABAPTISM

The doctrine of the Anabaptists.

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MUTUALITY

Reciprocity of consideration. Wharton.

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FICE

A small dog; -- written also fise, fyce, fiste, etc. [SouthernU.S.]

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COSTEANING

The process by which miners seek to discover metallic lodes. Itconsist in sinking small pits through the superficial deposits to thesolid rock, and then driving from one pit to another across thedirection of the vein, in such manner as to cross all the veinsbetween the two pits.

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SIFILET

The six-shafted bird of paradise. See Paradise bird, underParadise.

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PI

A mass of type confusedly mixed or unsorted. [Written alsopie.]

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STONE

A calculous concretion, especially one in the kidneys orbladder; the disease arising from a calculus.

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ADREAD

To dread. [Obs.] Sir P. Sidney.

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ECTASIS

The lengthening of a syllable from short to long.

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GINSHOP

A shop or barroom where gin is sold as a beverage. [Colloq.]