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23/12/2024

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PREJUDICAL

Of or pertaining to the determination of some matter notpreviously decided; as, a prejudical inquiry or action at law.

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SEMIMETAL

An element possessing metallic properties in an inferior degreeand not malleable, as arsenic, antimony, bismuth, molybdenum,uranium, etc. [Obs.]

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FANGLENESS

Quality of being fangled. [Obs.]He them in new fangleness did pass. Spenser.

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SPOROZOID

Same as Zoöspore.

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COLLIMATE

To render parallel to a certain line or direction; to bringinto the same line, as the axes of telescopes, etc.; to renderparallel, as rays of light.

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ZAUSCHNERIA

A genus of flowering plants. Zauschneria Californica is asuffrutescent perennial, with showy red flowers much resembling thoseof the garden fuchsia.

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SHIELDTAIL

Any species of small burrowing snakes of the family Uropeltidæ,native of Ceylon and Southern Asia. They have a small mouth which cannot be dilated.

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UNBOSOM

To disclose freely; to reveal in confidence, as secrets; toconfess; -- often used reflexively; as, to unbosom one's self.Milton.

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COPARCENER

One who has an equal portion with others of an inheritance.All the coparceners together make but one heir, and have but oneestate among them. blackstone.

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KICKSHOE

A kickshaws. Milton.

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SULPHOCARBONIC

Of, pertaining to, or designating, a sulphacid, H2CSO2 (calledalso thiocarbonic acid), or an acid, H2CS3, analogous to carbonicacid, obtained as a yellow oily liquid of a pungent odor, and formingsalts.

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NAGGING

Fault-finding; teasing; persistently annoying; as, a naggingtoothache. [Colloq.]