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03/12/2024

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VIARY

Of or pertaining to roads; happening on roads. [Obs.]

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LINEN

Made of linen; as, linen cloth; a linen stocking.

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TYPHOTOXIN

A basic substance, C7H17NO2, formed from the growth of thetyphoid bacillus on meat pulp. It induces in small animals lethargicconditions with liquid dejecta.

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REFUTABLE

Admitting of being refuted or disproved; capable of beingproved false or erroneous.

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VERNACULARIZATION

The act or process of making vernacular, or the state of beingmade vernacular. Fitzed. Hall.

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FOURTEENTH

The octave of the seventh.

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TREMIE

An apparatus for depositing and consolidating concrete underwater, essentially a tube of wood or sheet metal with a hooperliketop. It is usually handled by a crane.

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NEW THOUGHT

Any form of belief in mental healing other than (1) ChristianScience and (2) hypnotism or psychotherapy. Its central principle isaffirmative thought, or suggestion, employed with the conviction thatman produces changes in his health, his finances, and his life by theadoption of a favorable mental attitude. AS a therapeutic doctrine itstands for silent and absent mental treatment, and the theory thatall diseases are mental in origin. As a cult it has its unifying ideathe inculcation of workable optimism in contrast with the "oldthought" of sin, evil, predestination, and pessimistic resignation.The term is essentially synonymous with the term High Thought, usedin England.

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UNANSWERABLE

Not answerable; irrefutable; conclusive; decisive; as, he havean unanswerable argument.-- Un*an"swer*a*ble*ness, n.-- Un*an"swer*a*bly, adv.

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BRISTLE-SHAPED

Resembling a bristle in form; as, a bristle-shaped leaf.

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SYLLABISM

The expressing of the sounds of a language by syllables, ratherthan by an alphabet or by signs for words. I. Taylor (The Alphabet).

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JEARS

See 1st Jeer (b).