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03/09/2024

#55701

BUILD

Form or mode of construction; general figure; make; as, thebuild of a ship.

#12537

VALVATA

A genus of small spiral fresh-water gastropods having anoperculum.

#3266

SHOULDER

The joint, or the region of the joint, by which the fore limbis connected with the body or with the shoulder girdle; theprojection formed by the bones and muscles about that joint.

#33103

ENSNARE

To catch in a snare. See Insnare.

#41253

SEASONAGE

A seasoning. [Obs.] outh.

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REGLEMENTARY

Regulative. [R.]

#72910

DUBIOSITY

The state of being doubtful; a doubtful statement or thing.[R.]Men often swallow falsities for truths, dubiosities for certainties,possibilities for feasibilities. Sir T. Browne.

#53023

SWITCHMAN

One who tends a switch on a railway.

#73149

AMBUSHER

One lying in ambush.

#30520

EPIC

Narrated in a grand style; pertaining to or designating a kindof narrative poem, usually called an heroic poem, in which real orfictitious events, usually the achievements of some hero, arenarrated in an elevated style.The epic poem treats of one great, complex action, in a grand styleand with fullness of detail. T. Arnold.

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HOLASPIDEAN

Having a single series of large scutes on the posterior side ofthe tarsus; -- said of certain birds.

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DEPRAVEDNESS

Depravity. Hammond.