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17/10/2024

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SICCIFIC

Causing dryness.

#9291

VAPULATION

The act of beating or whipping. [Obs.]

#13353

DETECTION

The act of detecting; the laying open what was concealed orhidden; discovery; as, the detection of a thief; the detection offraud, forgery, or a plot.Such secrets of guilt are never from detection. D. Webster.

#28971

UNCLOUD

To free from clouds; to unvail; to clear from obscurity, gloom,sorrow, or the like. Beau. & Fl.

#6633

SAWBONES

A nickname for a surgeon.

#9448

UNPROFIT

Want of profit; unprofitableness. [Obs.] Wyclif.

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PRECONSTITUTE

To constitute or establish beforehand.

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MONOMEROUS

Composed of solitary parts, as a flower with one sepal, onepetal, one stamen, and one pistil.

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TASSET

A defense for the front of the thigh, consisting of one or moreiron plates hanging from the belt on the lower edge of the corselet.

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ROCKLESS

Being without rocks. Dryden.

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SPHEROGRAPH

An instrument for facilitating the practical use of spherics innavigation and astronomy, being constructed of two cardboardscontaining various circles, and turning upon each other in such amanner that any possible spherical triangle may be readily found, andthe measures of the parts read off by inspection.

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ULE

A Mexican and Central American tree (Castilloa elastica and C.Markhamiana) related to the breadfruit tree. Its milky juice containscaoutchouc. Called also ule tree.