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18/01/2025

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EMBASEMENT

Act of bringing down; depravation; deterioration. South.

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ARCHING

Hogging; -- opposed to sagging.

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ABOLITIONIST

A person who favors the abolition of any institution,especially negro slavery.

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DISENCHANT

To free from enchantment; to deliver from the power of charmsor spells; to free from fascination or delusion.Haste to thy work; a noble stroke or two Ends all the charms, anddisenchants the grove. Dryden.

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ARENULOUS

Full of fine sand; like sand. [Obs.]

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HETEROCERA

A division of Lepidoptera, including the moths, and hawk moths,which have the antennæ variable in form.

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QUACKISM

Quackery. Carlyle.

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IMPORTER

One who imports; the merchant who brings goods into a countryor state; -- opposed to exporter.

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DEMIDEVIL

A half devil. Shak.

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OLIGOPETALOUS

Having few petals.

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PRAYING

a. & n. from Pray, v. Praying insect, locust, or mantis(Zoöl.), a mantis, especially Mantis religiosa. See Mantis.-- Praying machine, or Praying wheel, a wheel on which prayers arepasted by Buddhist priests, who then put the wheel in rapidrevolution. Each turn in supposed to have the efficacy of an oralrepetition of all the prayers on the wheel. Sometimes it is moved bya stream.

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SHEEPBACK

A rounded knoll of rock resembling the back of a sheep.-- produced by glacial action. Called also roche moutonnée; --usually in the plural.