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11/12/2024

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ELANET

A kite of the genus Elanus.

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ALLOCATUR

"Allowed." The word allocatur expresses the allowance of aproceeding, writ, order, etc., by a court, judge, or judicialofficer.

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SYRINGE

A kind of small hand-pump for throwing a stream of liquid, orfor purposes of aspiration. It consists of a small cylindrical barreland piston, or a bulb of soft elastic material, with or withoutvalves, and with a nozzle which is sometimes at the end of a flexibletube; -- used for injecting animal bodies, cleansing wounds, etc.Garden syringe. See Garden.

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GASIFY

To convert into gas, or an aëriform fluid, as by theapplication of heat, or by chemical processes.

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DISINVESTITURE

The act of depriving of investiture. [Obs.] Ogilvie.

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FLUVIALIST

One who exlpains geological phenomena by the action of streams.[R.]

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WAGES

A compensation given to a hired person for services; price paidfor labor; recompense; hire. See Wage, n., 2.The wages of sin is death. Rom. vi. 23.Wages fund (Polit. Econ.), the aggregate capital existing at any timein any country, which theoretically is unconditionally destined to bepaid out in wages. It was formerly held, by Mill and other politicaleconomists, that the average rate of wages in any country at any timedepended upon the relation of the wages fund to the number oflaborers. This theory has been greatly modified by the discovery ofother conditions affecting wages, which it does not take intoaccount. Encyc. Brit.

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HUNTE

A hunter. [Obs.] Chaucer.

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SPHERE

A body or space contained under a single surface, which inevery part is equally distant from a point within called its center.

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NURSERYMAN

One who cultivates or keeps a nursery, or place for rearingtrees, etc.

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SEPOSITION

The act of setting aside, or of giving up. [Obs.] Jer. Taylor.

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PEPASTIC

Same as Maturative.