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25/12/2024

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TYPOTHETAE

Printers; -- used in the name of an association of the masterprinters of the United States and Canada, called The United Typothetæof America.

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UNREPENTANCE

Impenitence. [R.]

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QUINOGEN

A hypothetical radical of quinine and related alkaloids.

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SPHENODON

Same as Hatteria.

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AUDILE

One whose thoughts take the form of mental sounds or ofinternal discourse rather than of visual or motor images.

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ITACISM

Pronunciation of e in the English word be. This was thepronunciation advocated by ReuEtacism.In all such questions between a the confusing element of itacismcomes in. Alford.

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BACTERICIDE

Same as Germicide.

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HULCH

A hunch. [Obs.]

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EXOLVE

To loose; to pay. [Obs.]

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ASMEAR

Smeared over. Dickens.

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BRINY

Of or pertaining to brine, or to the sea; partaking of thenature of brine; salt; as, a briny taste; the briny flood.

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STOPPER

A short piece of rope having a knot at one or both ends, with alanyard under the knot, -- used to secure something. Totten.