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09/02/2025

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EQUICRURAL

Having equal legs or sides; isosceles. [R.] "Equicruraltriangles." Sir T. Browne.

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SAUTRIE

Psaltery. [Obs.] Chaucer.

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MIRTHLESS

Without mirth.-- Mirth"less*ness, n.

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LUSTRATION

A sacrifice, or ceremony, by which cities, fields, armies, orpeople, defiled by crimes, pestilence, or other cause of uncleanness,were purified.

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BICEPS

A muscle having two heads or origins; -- applied particularlyto a flexor in the arm, and to another in the thigh.

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FORMEDON

A writ of right for a tenant in tail in case of adiscontinuance of the estate tail. This writ has been abolished.

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IMPATIENCE

The quality of being impatient; want of endurance of pain,suffering, opposition, or delay; eagerness for change, or forsomething expected; restlessness; chafing of spirit; fretfulness;passion; as, the impatience of a child or an invalid.I then, . . . Out of my grief and my impatience, Answeredneglectingly. Shak.With huge impatience he inly swelt More for great sorrow that hecould not pass, Than for the burning torment which he felt. Spenser.

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RECIPROCOUS

Reciprocal. [Obs.]

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DILATE

Extensive; expanded. [Obs.] B. Jonson.

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LARYNGOTOME

An instrument for performing laryngotomy.

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CLAMATORIAL

Like or pertaining to the Clamatores.

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PACHOMETER

An instrument for measuring thickness, as of the glass of amirror, or of paper; a pachymeter.