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09/11/2024

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REGRET

To experience regret on account of; to lose or miss with asense of regret; to feel sorrow or dissatisfaction on account of (thehappening or the loss of something); as, to regret an error; toregret lost opportunities or friends.Calmly he looked on either life, and here Saw nothing to regret, orthere to fear. Pope.In a few hours they [the Israelites] began to regret their slavery,and to murmur against their leader. Macaulay.Recruits who regretted the plow from which they had been violentlytaken. Macaulay.

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INFUSORIAL

Belonging to the Infusoria; composed of, or containing,Infusoria; as, infusorial earth. Infusorial earth (Geol.), a depositof fine, usually white, siliceous material, composed mainly of theshells of the microscopic plants called diatoms. It is used inpolishing powder, and in the manufacture of dynamite.

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NITRIDE

A binary compound of nitrogen with a more metallic element orradical; as, boric nitride.

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FELIS

A genus of carnivorous mammals, including the domestic cat, thelion, tiger, panther, and similar animals.

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ANILINISM

A disease due to inhaling the poisonous fumes present in themanufacture of aniline.

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CANDIDLY

In a candid manner.

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FLUXILE

Fluxible. [R.]

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PRODUCTUS

An extinct genus of brachiopods, very characteristic of theCarboniferous rocks.

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TRADESWOMAN

A woman who trades, or is skilled in trade.

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PROBABILIST

One who maintains that a man may do that which has aprobability of being right, or which is inculcated by teachers ofauthority, although other opinions may seem to him still moreprobable.

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LEMUROIDEA

A suborder of primates, including the lemurs, the aye-aye, andallied species. [Written also Lemuroida.]

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SECRETE

To separate from the blood and elaborate by the process ofsecretion; to elaborate and emit as a secretion. See Secretion.Why one set of cells should secrete bile, another urea, and so on, wedo not known. Carpenter.