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21/01/2025

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FEUDALITY

FEUDALITY

The state or quality of being feudal; feudal form orconstitution. Burke.

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CURCH

CURCH

See Courche.

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MEMINNA

MEMINNA

A small deerlet, or chevrotain, of India.

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SPINDLE

SPINDLE

The shaft, mandrel, or arbor, in a machine tool, as a lathe ordrilling machine, etc., which causes the work to revolve, or carriesa tool or center, etc.(b) (Mach.) The vertical rod on which the runner of a grinding millturns.(c) (Founding) A shaft or pipe on which a core of sand is formed.

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STEGOSAURIA

STEGOSAURIA

An extinct order of herbivorous dinosaurs, including the generaStegosaurus, Omosaurus, and their allies.

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METHODIZE

METHODIZE

To reduce to method; to dispose in due order; to arrange in aconvenient manner; as, to methodize one's work or thoughts.Spectator.

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OBSOLESCE

OBSOLESCE

To become obsolescent. [R.] Fitzed. Hall.

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NON SEQUITUR

NON SEQUITUR

An inference which does not follow from the premises.

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ALUM ROOT

ALUM ROOT

A North American herb (Heuchera Americana) of the Saxifragefamily, whose root has astringent properties.

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VALUED-POLICY LAW

VALUED-POLICY LAW

A law requiring insurance companies to pay to the insured, incase of total loss, the full amount of the insurance, regardless ofthe actual value of the property at the time of the loss.

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WADDLINGLY

WADDLINGLY

In a waddling manner.

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OVEREXCITE

OVEREXCITE

To excite too much.