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05/10/2024

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RUTA-BAGA

A kind of turnip commonly with a large and long or ovoidyellowish root; a Swedish turnip. See Turnip.

#31990

SKIMBACK

The quillback. [Local, U.S.]

#59466

CIRRHOSIS

A disease of the liver in which it usually becomes smaller insize and more dense and fibrous in consistence; hence sometimesapplied to similar changes in other organs, caused by increase in thefibrous framework and decrease in the proper substance of the organ.

#28024

HASTINGS SANDS

The lower group of the Wealden formation; -- so called from itsdevelopment around Hastings, in Sussex, England.

#748

IRRECOVERABLE

Not capable of being recovered, regained, or remedied;irreparable; as, an irrecoverable loss, debt, or injury.That which is past is gone and irrecoverable. Bacon.

#35867

ASTRAY

Out of the right, either in a literal or in a figurative sense;wandering; as, to lead one astray.Ye were as sheep going astray. 1 Pet. ii. 25.

#9168

STILTY

Unreasonably elevated; pompous; stilted; as, a stilty style.

#65666

BOTANY BAY

A harbor on the east coast of Australia, and an English convictsettlement there; -- so called from the number of new plants found onits shore at its discovery by Cook in 1770.

#77696

FLOWER-DE-LUCE

A genus of perennial herbs (Iris) with swordlike leaves andlarge three-petaled flowers often of very gay colors, but probablywhite in the plant first chosen for the royal French emblem.

#18415

EPIMACHUS

A genus of highly ornate and brilliantly colored birds ofAustralia, allied to the birds of Paradise.

#41578

PUSTULANT

Producing pustules.-- n.

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APHTHAE

Roundish pearl-colored specks or flakes in the mouth, on thelips, etc., terminating in white sloughs. They are commonlycharacteristic of thrush.