12 new words everyday

09/10/2024

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CONCISION

A cutting off; a division; a schism; a faction. South.

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GLOSSOGRAPHER

A writer of a glossary; a commentator; a scholiast. Hayward.

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EPHEMERAN

One of the ephemeral flies.

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FORWARDNESS

The quality of being forward; cheerful readiness; promtness;as, the forwardness of Christians in propagating the gospel.

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GINGERBREAD

A kind of plain sweet cake seasoned with ginger, and sometimesmade in fanciful shapes. "Gingerbread that was full fine." Chaucer.Gingerbread tree (Bot.), the doom palm; -- so called from theresemblance of its fruit to gingerbread. See Doom Palm.-- Gingerbread work, ornamentation, in architecture or decoration,of a fantastic, trivial, or tawdry character.

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QUARTATION

The act, process, or result (in the process of parting) ofalloying a button of nearly pure gold with enough silver to reducethe fineness so as to allow acids to attack and remove all metalsexcept the gold; -- called also inquartation. Compare Parting.

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ENFORCER

One who enforces.

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EXCITO-MOTOR

Excitomotory; as, excito-motor power or causes.

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ELEMENTALLY

According to elements; literally; as, the words, "Take, eat;this is my body," elementally understood.

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FUGHETTA

a short, condensed fugue. Grove.

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EVIL EYE

. See Evil eye under Evil, a.

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SALACITY

Strong propensity to venery; lust; lecherousness.