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LUCE

A pike when full grown. Halliwell.

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CANOROUS

Melodious; musical. "Birds that are most canorous." Sir T.Browne.A long, lound, and canorous peal of laughter. De Quincey.

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ENTABLATURE

The superstructure which lies horizontally upon the columns.See Illust. of Column, Cornice.

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SMOULDER

See Smolder.

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DISHEVELE

Disheveled. [Obs.]Dishevele, save his cap, he rode all bare. Chaucer.

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POLLEN

The fecundating dustlike cells of the anthers of flowers. SeeFlower, and Illust. of Filament. Pollen grain (Bot.), a particle orcall of pollen.-- Pollen mass, a pollinium. Gray.-- Pollen sac, a compartment of an anther containing pollen, --usually there are four in each anther.-- Pollen tube, a slender tube which issues from the pollen grain onits contact with the stigma, which it penetrates, thus conveying, itis supposed, the fecundating matter of the grain to the ovule.

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CHILDREN

pl. of Child.

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CHIH TAI

A Chinese governor general; a tsung tu (which see).

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ARCHONTS

The group including man alone.

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PUTTOCK

See Futtock. [Obs.]

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HESPERIAN

Western; being in the west; occidental. [Poetic] Milton.

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URANIUM

An element of the chromium group, found in certain rareminerals, as pitchblende, uranite, etc., and reduced as a heavy,hard, nickel-white metal which is quite permanent. Its yellow oxideis used to impart to glass a delicate greenish-yellow tint which isaccompanied by a strong fluorescence, and its black oxide is used asa pigment in porcelain painting. Symbol U. Atomic weight 239.