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16/10/2024

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SUETY

Consisting of, or resembling, suet; as, a suety substance.

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SPORTULE

A charitable gift or contribution; a gift; an alms; a dole; alargess; a sportula. [Obs.] Ayliffe.

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ALKALIFY

To convert into an alkali; to give alkaline properties to.

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HIGH-CHURCHMAN

One who holds high-church principles.

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MARRIAGEABLE

Fit for, or capable of, marriage; of an age at which marriageis allowable.-- Mar"riage*a*ble*ness, n.

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EITHER

precedes two, or more, coördinate words or phrases, and isintroductory to an alternative. It is correlative to or.Either he is talking, or he is pursuing, or he is in a journey, orperadventure he sleepeth. 1 Kings xviii. 27.Few writers hesitate to use either in what is called a triplealternative; such as, We must either stay where we are, proceed, orrecede. Latham.

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SOLIFUGAE

A division of arachnids having large, powerful fangs and asegmented abdomen; -- called also Solpugidea, and Solpugides.

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VEDANTA

A system of philosophy among the Hindoos, founded on scatteredtexts of the Vedas, and thence termed the "Anta," or end orsubstance. Balfour (Cyc. of India.)

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MONOTREME

One of the Monotremata.

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PRESTIDIGITATION

Legerdemain; sleight of hand; juggling.

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FATIGATE

Wearied; tired; fatigued. [Obs.]Requickened what in flesh was fatigate. Shak.

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MULTIFEROUS

Bearing or producing much or many. [R.]