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19/01/2025

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MUSLIN

A thin cotton, white, dyed, or printed. The name is alsoapplied to coarser and heavier cotton goods; as, shirting andsheeting muslins. Muslin cambric. See Cambric.-- Muslin delaine, a light woolen fabric for women's dresses. SeeDelaine. [Written also mousseline de laine.]

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EUTYCHIAN

A follower of Eutyches [5th century], who held that the divineand the human in the person of Christ were blended together as toconstitute but one nature; a monophysite; -- opposed to Nestorian.

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EMPANOPLIED

Completely armed; panoplied. Tennyson.

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TILMUS

Floccillation.

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ALCOHOLIC

Of or pertaining to alcohol, or partaking of its qualities;derived from, or caused by, alcohol; containing alcohol; as,alcoholic mixtures; alcoholic gastritis; alcoholic odor.

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LATENCE

Latency. Coleridge.

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CHOPFALLEN

Having the lower chop or jaw depressed; hence, crestfallen;dejected; dispirited;downcast. See Chapfallen.

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SHILL

To shell. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.]

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MISCREATIVE

Creating amiss. [R.]

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UPTHUNDER

To send up a noise like thunder. [R.] Coleridge.

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LATITAT

A writ based upon the presumption that the person summoned washiding. Blackstone.

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DIB

To dip. [Prov. Eng.] Walton.