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01/12/2024

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VARIABLENESS

The quality or state of being variable; variability. James i.17.

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CROWN-IMPERIAL

A spring-blooming plant (Fritillaria imperialis) of the Lilyfamily, having at the top of the stalk a cluster of pendent bell-shaped flowers surmounted with a tuft of green leaves.

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DREE

To endure; to suffer. [Scot.]

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TILLODONTIA

An extinct group of Mammalia found fossil in the Eoceneformation. The species are related to the carnivores, ungulates, androdents. Called also Tillodonta.

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OXYGENIC

Pertaining to, containing, or resembling, oxygen; producingoxygen.

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BRAND

Any minute fungus which produces a burnt appearance in plants.The brands are of many species and several genera of the orderPucciniæi.

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REEDIFICATION

The act reëdifying; the state of being reëdified.

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ROSINESS

The quality of being rosy.

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MENTALITY

Quality or state of mind. "The same hard mentality." Emerson.

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VALYLENE

A volatile liquid hydrocarbon, C5H6, related to ethylene andacetylene, but possessing the property of unsaturation in the thirddegree. It is the only known member of a distinct series ofcompounds. It has a garlic odor.

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COLLOCUTION

A speaking or conversing together; conference; mutualdiscourse. Bailey.

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ECTHOREUM

The slender, hollow thread of a nettling cell or cnida. SeeNettling cell. [Written also ecthoræum.]