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28/01/2025

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GNOMICAL

Gnomonical. Boyle.

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HEALTHILY

In a healthy manner.

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DISTRIBUTIVE

Assigning the species of a general term.

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WAMPUM

Beads made of shells, used by the North American Indians asmoney, and also wrought into belts, etc., as an ornament.Round his waist his belt of wampum. Longfellow.Girded with his wampum braid. Whittier.

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SHIPLESS

Destitute of ships. Gray.

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AUTOKINETIC

Self-moving; moving automatically.

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NIMIOUS

Excessive; extravagant; inordinate. [Obs.]

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ANGULOSE

Angulous. [R.]

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MELLOWNESS

Quality or state of being mellow.

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INTRANSITIVE

Not transitive; not passing over tas, an intransitive verb, e.g., the bird flies; the dog runs.

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GAINSBOROUGH HAT

A woman's broad-brimmed hat of a form thought to resemble thoseshown in portraits by Thomas Gainsborough, the English artist (1727-88).

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MULTILOQUY

Excess of words or talk. [R.]