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22/12/2024

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MELLOWNESS

Quality or state of being mellow.

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OAKER

See Ocher. [Obs.] Spenser.

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SLEEPWAKER

On in a state of magnetic or mesmeric sleep.

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DESPAIRER

One who despairs.

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HOYDEN

Same as Hoiden.

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DOUBTFULLY

In a doubtful manner.Nor did the goddess doubtfully declare. Dryden.

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MUND

See Mun.

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ABETTAL

Abetment. [R.]

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BECKER

A European fish (Pagellus centrodontus); the sea bream orbraise.

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SOCAGE

A tenure of lands and tenements by a certain or determinateservice; a tenure distinct from chivalry or knight's service, inwhich the obligations were uncertain. The service must be certain, inorder to be denominated socage, as to hold by fealty and twentyshillings rent. [Written also soccage.]

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SONORAN

Pertaining to or designating the arid division of the Australzone, including the warmer parts of the western United States andcentral Mexico. It is divided into the Upper Sonoran, which lies nextto the Transition zone, and the Lower Sonoran, next to the Tropical.

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FOOT POUND

A unit of energy, or work, being equal to the work done inraising one pound avoirdupois against the force of gravity the heightof one foot.