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04/05/2025

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PROBABILITY

Likelihood of the occurrence of any event in the doctrine ofchances, or the ratio of the number of favorable chances to the wholenumber of chances, favorable and unfavorable. See 1st Chance, n., 5.

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RUTHENIOUS

Pertaining to, or containing, ruthenium; designating thosecompounds in which it has a lower valence as contrasted with rutheniccompounds.

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BAGASSE

Sugar cane, as it

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EARTHDIN

An earthquake. [Obs.]

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COMPASSLESS

Having no compass. Knowles.

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MIDDLE-AGE

Of or pertaining to the Middle Ages; mediæval.

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STATOCRACY

Government by the state, or by political power, in distinctionfrom government by ecclesiastical power. [R.] O. A. Brownson.

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ORTHOCERATITE

An orthoceras; also, any fossil shell allied to Orthoceras.

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PHLEGM

Viscid mucus secreted in abnormal quantity in the respiratoryand digestive passages.

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WAGNERIAN

Of, pertaining to, or resembling the style of, Richard Wagner,the German musical composer.

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FIREWORK

A pyrotechnic exhibition. [Obs. in the sing.]Night before last, the Duke of Richmond gave a firework. Walpole.

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PRIMINE

The outermost of the two integuments of an ovule.