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16/11/2024

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RHYNCHOPHORE

One of the Rhynchophora.

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FUNCTIONARY

One charged with the performance of a function or office; as, apublic functionary; secular functionaries.

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GIZZARD

The second, or true, muscular stomach of birds, in which thefood is crushed and ground, after being softened in the glandularstomach (crop), or lower part of the esophagus; the gigerium.

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FORMERET

One of the half ribs against the walls in a ceiling vaultedwith ribs.

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WHITETOP

Fiorin.

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ONEROUS

Burdensome; oppressive. "Too onerous a solicitude." I. Taylor.Onerous cause (Scots Law), a good and legal consideration; -- opposedto gratuitous.

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SNUFFLE

To speak through the nose; to breathe through the nose when itis obstructed, so as to make a broken sound.One clad in purple Eats, and recites some lamentable rhyme . . .Snuffling at nose, and croaking in his throat. Dryden.

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TANGALUNG

An East Indian civet (Viverra tangalunga).

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BIFORATE

Having two perforations.

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ISOMEROMORPHISM

Isomorphism between substances that are isomeric.

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STOOR

To rise in clouds, as dust. [Prov. Eng.]

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POUSSE

Pulse; pease. [Obs.] Spenser.