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20/10/2024

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THENARDITE

Anhydrous sodium sulphate, a mineral of a white or brown colorand vitreous luster.

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CONVERSABLE

Qualified for conversation; disposed to converse; sociable;free in discourse.While young, humane, conversable, and kind. Cowper.

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ECCHYMOSIS

A livid or black and blue spot, produced by the extravasationor effusion of blood into the areolar tissue from a contusion.

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DILUVIUM

A deposit of superficial loam, sand, gravel, stones, etc.,caused by former action of flowing waters, or the melting of glacialice.

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MAIGRE

Belonging to a fast day or fast; as, a maigre day. Walpole.Maigre food (R. C. Ch.), food allowed to be eaten on fast days.

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TALLIS

Same as Tallith.

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AMBAGES

A circuit; a winding. Hence: Circuitous way or proceeding;quibble; circumlocution; indirect mode of speech.After many ambages, perspicuously define what this melancholy is.Burton.

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SHOULDER

The joint, or the region of the joint, by which the fore limbis connected with the body or with the shoulder girdle; theprojection formed by the bones and muscles about that joint.

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PUSEYITE

One who holds the principles of Puseyism; -- often usedopprobriously.

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EXTRA-OFFICIAL

Not prescribed by official duty.

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FORMALIST

One overattentive to forms, or too much confined to them; esp.,one who rests in external religious forms, or observes strictly theoutward forms of worship, without possessing the life and spirit ofreligion.As far a formalist from wisdom sits, In judging eyes, as libertinesfrom wits. Young.

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FRUTICULOSE

Like, or pertaining to, a small shrub. Gray.