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09/12/2024

#41045

HARPIST

A player on the harp; a harper. W. Browne.

#24004

VIATIC

Of or pertaining to a journey or traveling.

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RED-TAPIST

One who is tenacious of a strict adherence to officialformalities. Ld. Lytton.

#65836

JUGGER

An East Indian falcon. See Lugger.

#44811

THAN

A particle expressing comparison, used after certain adjectivesand adverbs which express comparison or diversity, as more, better,other, otherwise, and the like. It is usually followed by the objectcompared in the nominative case. Sometimes, however, the objectcompared is placed in the objective case, and than is then consideredby some grammarians as a preposition. Sometimes the object isexpressed in a sentence, usually introduced by that; as, I wouldrather suffer than that you should want.Behold, a greater than Solomon is here. Matt. xii. 42.Which when Beelzebub perceived, than whom, Satan except, none highersat. Milton.It's wiser being good than bad; It's safer being meek than fierce;It's fitter being sane than mad. R. Browning.

#4957

FRECKLEDNESS

The state of being freckled.

#52160

UNCONSECRATE

To render not sacred; to deprive of sanctity; to desecrate.[Obs.] South.

#65907

MANIPULATIVE

Of or pertaining to manipulation; performed by manipulation.

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VITALIC

Pertaining to life; vital. [R.]

#57988

CASEATION

A degeneration of animal tissue into a cheesy or curdy mass.

#75323

JEWELWEED

See Impatiens.

#61928

VINEGAR FLY

Any of several fruit flies, esp. Drosophila ampelopophila,which breed in imperfectly sealed preserves and in pickles.