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19/10/2024

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FLASH

To cover with a thin layer, as objects of glass with glass of adifferent color. See Flashing, n., 3 (b).

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COATLESS

Not wearing a coat; also, not possessing a coat.

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EXCERPTIVE

That excerpts, selects, or chooses. D. L. Mackenzie.

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BORURET

A boride. [Obs.]

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CARPOGENIC

Productive of fruit, or causing fruit to be developed.

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COWWEED

Same as Cow parsley.

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MANTISSA

The decimal part of a logarithm, as distinguished from theintegral part, or characteristic.

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SKUNKTOP

The surf duck.

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LANDLOCK

To inclose, or nearly inclose, as a harbor or a vessel, withland.

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SIZY

Sizelike; viscous; glutinous; as, sizy blood. Arbuthnot.

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COAGULATORY

Serving to coagulate; produced by coagulation; as, coagulatoryeffects. Boyle.

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CANASTER

A kind of tobacco for smoking, made of the dried leaves,coarsely broken; -- so called from the rush baskets in which it ispacked in South America. McElrath.