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24/09/2024

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PINGLE

A small piece of inclosed ground. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.]

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NONSANE

Unsound; not perfect; as, a person of nonsane memory.Blackstone.

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MONESIA

The bark, or a vegetable extract brought in solid cakes fromSouth America and believed to be derived from the bark, of the treeChrysophyllum glycyphloeum. It is used as an alterative andastringent.

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ACATALEPTIC

Incapable of being comprehended; incomprehensible.

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HYDROBAROMETER

An instrument for determining the depth of the sea water by itspressure.

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ACCOLADE

A brace used to join two or more staves.

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BEELD

Same as Beild. Fairfax.

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KEELMAN

See Keeler,

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BOX-IRON

A hollow smoothing iron containing a heater within.

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FETCH

To bring one's self; to make headway; to veer; as, to fetchabout; to fetch to windward. Totten. To fetch away (Naut.), to breakloose; to roll slide to leeward.-- To fetch and carry, to serve obsequiously, like a trainedspaniel.

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PRIMROSE LEAGUE

A league of both sexes among the Conservatives, founded in1883. So called because primrose was (erroneously, it is said) takento be the favorite flower of the Conservative statesman BenjaminDisraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield.

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REPLEADER

A second pleading, or course of pleadings; also, the right ofpleading again.Whenever a repleader is granted, the pleadings must begin de novo.Blackstone.