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02/10/2024

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ELIMATE

To render smooth; to polish. [Obs.]

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ACONITAL

Of the nature of aconite.

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ARCHTRAITOR

A chief or transcendent traitor. I. Watts.

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ASPHALT

To cover with asphalt; as, to asphalt a roof; asphaltedstreets.

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POLITZERIZATION

The act of inflating the middle ear by blowing air up the noseduring the act of swallowing; -- so called from Prof. Politzer ofVienna, who first practiced it.

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MAYAN

A form of corbel arch employing regular small corbels.

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ABDOMINALIA

A group of cirripeds having abdominal appendages.

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LOPHOPHORE

A disk which surrounds the mouth and bears the tentacles of theBryozoa. See Phylactolemata.

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CLOTTED

Composed of clots or clods; having the quality or form of aclot; sticky; slimy; foul. "The clotted glebe." J. Philips.When lust . . . Lets in defilement to the inward parts, The soulgrows clotted by contagion. Milton.

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HIR

See Here, pron. Chaucer.

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YERBA

An herb; a plant.

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SYNCYTIUM

Tissue in which the cell or partition walls are wholly wantingand the cell bodies fused together, so that the tissue consists of acontinuous mass of protoplasm in which nuclei are imbedded, as inordinary striped muscle.