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27/04/2025

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URDU

The language more generally called Hindoostanee.

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PROTRACTIVE

Drawing out or lengthening in time; prolonging; continuing;delaying.He suffered their protractive arts. Dryden.

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MYDAUS

The teledu.

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ASSONATE

To correspond in sound.

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PAROTOID

Resembling the parotid gland; -- applied especially tocutaneous glandular elevations above the ear in many toads and frogs.-- n.

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ANTRE

A cavern. [Obs.] Shak.

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BRAG

To talk about one's self, or things pertaining to one's self,in a manner intended to excite admiration, envy, or wonder; to talkboastfully; to boast; -- often followed by of; as, to brag of one'sexploits, courage, or money, or of the great things one intends todo.Conceit, more rich in matter than in words, Brags of his substance,not of ornament. Shak.

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COREPLASTY

A plastic operation on the pupil, as for forming an artificialpupil. -- Cor`e*plas"tic (-plas"tik), a.

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CAPRICE

See Capriccio.

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MUSICOMANIA

A kind of monomania in which the passion for music becomes sostrong as to derange the intellectual faculties. Dunglison.

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INTEMERATENESS

The state of being unpolluted; purity. [Obs.] Donne.

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LETHY

Lethean. [Obs.] Marston.