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18/11/2024

#31657

ARROWHEADED

Shaped like the head of an arow; cuneiform. Arrowheadedcharacters, characters the elements of which consist of strokesresembling arrowheads, nailheads, or wedges; -- hence called alsonail-headed, wedge-formed, cuneiform, or cuneatic characters; theoldest written characters used in the country about the Tigris andEuphrates, and subsequently in Persia, and abounding among the ruinsof Persepolis, Nineveh, and Babylon. See Cuneiform.

#22721

TECTLY

Covertly; privately; secretly. [Obs.] Holinshed.

#36366

IMPEACHMENT

The act of impeaching, or the state of being impeached; as:(a) Hindrance; impediment; obstruction. [Obs.]Willing to march on to Calais, Without impeachment. Shak.

#65446

TRANSPORTED

Conveyed from one place to another; figuratively, carried awaywith passion or pleasure; entranced.-- Trans*port"ed*ly, adv.-- Trans*port"ed*ness, n.

#58846

MISTAUGHT

Wrongly taught; as, a mistaught youth. L'Estrange.

#53847

CURR

To coo. [Scot.]The owlets hoot, the owlets curr. Wordsworth.

#43897

LILY-LIVERED

White-livered; cowardly.

#38221

KUSKUS

See Vetiver.

#43175

SYNENTOGNATHI

An order of fishes, resembling the Physoclisti, without spinesin the dorsal, anal, and ventral fins. It includes the true flyingfishes.

#49876

MANLESSLY

Inhumanly. [Obs.]

#79775

NASUTNESS

Quickness of scent; hence, nice discernment; acuteness. [Obs.]Dr. H. More.

#10028

SINGLE-MINDED

Having a single purpose; hence, artless; guileless; single-hearted.