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10/09/2024

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GYNECIAN

Of or relating to women.

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SPREAD-EAGLED

1. To place in a spread-eagle position, especially as a meansof punishment. 2. being in a position with the arms and legs extendedfully.

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ANCHOR WATCH

A detail of one or more men who keep watch on deck at nightwhen a vessel is at anchor.

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PALLIDNESS

The quality or state of being pallid; paleness; pallor;wanness.

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GABBLER

One who gabbles; a prater.

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VENENATE

To poison; to infect with poison. [R.] Harvey.

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COSSACK

One of a warlike, pastoral people, skillful as horsemen,inhabiting different parts of the Russian empire and furnishingvaluable contingents of irregular cavalry to its armies, those ofLittle Russia and those of the Don forming the principal divisions.

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MERCURIALIST

A physician who uses much mercury, in any of its forms, in hispractice.

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EPICEDIAN

Epicedial.-- n.

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CETACEA

An order of marine mammals, including the whales. Like ordinarymammals they breathe by means of lungs, and bring forth living youngwhich they suckle for some time. The anterior limbs are changed topaddles; the tail flukes are horizontal. There are two livingsuborders: (a) The Mysticete or whalebone whales, having no trueteeth after birth, but with a series of plates of whalebone [seeBaleen.] hanging down from the upper jaw on each side, thus making astrainer, through which they receive the small animals upon whichthey feed. (b) The Denticete, including the dolphins and sperm whale,which have teeth. Another suborder (Zeuglodontia) is extinct. TheSirenia were formerly included in the Cetacea, but are now made aseparate order.

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METATE

A flat or somewhat hollowed stone upon which grain or otherfood is ground, by means of a smaller stone or pestle. [SouthwesternU. S. & Sp. Amer.]

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SPARKLET

A small spark. [Obs.]