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11/09/2024

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CONFLUXIBLE

Inclined to flow or run together. --Con*flux"i*ble*ness, n.

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CRAPAUDINE

Turning on pivots at the top and bottom; -- said of a door.

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HOLSOM

Wholesome. [Obs.] Chaucer.

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PANICLED

Furnished with panicles; arranged in, or like, panicles;paniculate.

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GYRACANTHUS

A genus of fossil fishes, found in Devonian and carboniferousstrata; -- so named from their round, sculptured spines.

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BARTER

To traffic or trade, by exchanging one commodity for another,in distinction from a sale and purchase, in which money is paid forthe commodities transferred; to truck.

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CUCKOLDIZE

To cuckold. Dryden.

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WARRIOR

A man engaged or experienced in war, or in the military life; asoldier; a champion.Warriors old with ordered spear and shield. Milton.Warrior ant (Zoöl.), a reddish ant (Formica sanguinea) native ofEurope and America. It is one of the species which move in armies tocapture and enslave other ants.

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FRANKALMOIGNE

A tenure by which a religious corporation holds lands given tothem and their successors forever, usually on condition of prayingfor the soul of the donor and his heirs; -- called also tenure byfree alms. Burrill.

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TASCO

A kind of clay for making melting pots. Percy Smith.

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SUBSTITUTE

One who, or that which, is substituted or put in the place ofanother; one who acts for another; that which stands in lieu ofsomething else; specifically (Mil.),

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ASSUMPT

To take up; to elevate; to assume. [Obs.] Sheldon.