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01/05/2025

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TRUNCHEONEER

A person armed with a truncheon. [Written also truncheoner.]

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NECTOCALYX

The cavity of a nectocalyx.

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VALEDICTION

A farewell; a bidding farewell. Donne.

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STROUD

A kind of coarse blanket or garment used by the North AmericanIndians.

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SLOGGER

A hard hitter; a slugger. [Cant or Slang] T. Hughes.

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DEPHLEGMATORY

Pertaining to, or producing, dephlegmation.

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PROATLAS

A vertebral rudiment in front of the atlas in some reptiles.

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TETRAHEDRALLY

In a tetrahedral manner.

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KINESODIC

Conveying motion; as; kinesodic substance; -- applied esp. tothe spinal cord, because it is capable of conveying doth voluntaryand reflex motor impulses, without itself being affected by motorimpulses applied to it directly.

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ADMIRAL

A handsome butterfly (Pyrameis Atalanta) of Europe and America.The larva feeds on nettles. Admiral shell (Zoöl.), the popular nameof an ornamental cone shell (Conus admiralis). Lord High Admiral, agreat officer of state, who (when this rare dignity is conferred) isat the head of the naval administration of Great Britain.

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CORRIGENT

A substance added to a medicine to mollify or modify itsaction. Dunglison.

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BARTER

To traffic or trade, by exchanging one commodity for another,in distinction from a sale and purchase, in which money is paid forthe commodities transferred; to truck.