12 new words everyday
17/04/2025
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BELLED
BELLED
Hung with a bell or bells.
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UNSELY
UNSELY
Not blessed or happy; wretched; unfortunate. [Written alsounsilly.] [Obs.] Chaucer.-- Un*se"li*ness, n. [Obs.] Chaucer.
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MOGGAN
MOGGAN
A closely fitting knit sleeve; also, a legging of knittedmaterial. [Scot.]
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WRATHLESS
WRATHLESS
Free from anger or wrath. Waller.
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ETERMINABLE
ETERMINABLE
Interminable. [Obs.] Skelton.
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GUSTABLE
GUSTABLE
Anything that can be tasted. [Obs.]
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UNICITY
UNICITY
The condition of being united; quality of the unique;unification.Not unity, but what the schoolmen call unicity. De Quincey.The unicity we strive not to express, for that is impossible, but todesignate by the nearest analogy. Coleridge.
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ICELANDER
ICELANDER
A native, or one of the Scandinavian people, of Iceland.
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HOPPLE
HOPPLE
A fetter for horses, or cattle, when turned out to graze; --chiefly used in the plural.
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HIGH-STEPPER
HIGH-STEPPER
A horse that moves with a high step or proud gait; hence, aperson having a proud bearing. [Colloq.]
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WARDIAN
WARDIAN
Designating, or pertaining to, a kind of glass inclosure forkeeping ferns, mosses, etc., or for transporting growing plants froma distance; as, a Wardian case of plants; -- so named from theinventor, Nathaniel B. Ward, an Englishman.
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FRAPE
FRAPE
A crowd, a rabble. [Obs.] ares.