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08/05/2025
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INSURANT
INSURANT
The person insured. Champness.
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ADVENT
ADVENT
The period including the four Sundays before Christmas. AdventSunday (Eccl.), the first Sunday in the season of Advent, beingalways the nearest Sunday to the feast of St. Andrew (Now. 30).Shipley.
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MILIARIA
MILIARIA
A fever accompanied by an eruption of small, isolated, redpimples, resembling a millet seed in form or size; miliary fever.
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HYPERSPACE
HYPERSPACE
An imagined space having more than three dimensions.
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PROPIONATE
PROPIONATE
A salt of propionic acid.
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DIALLEL
DIALLEL
Meeting and intersecting, as lines; not parallel; -- opposed toparallel. [Obs.] Ash.
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DISC
DISC
A flat round plate; (Biol.)
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DOMETT
DOMETT
A kind of baize of which the ward is cotton and the weftwoolen. Blakely.
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RAZORBACK
RAZORBACK
The rorqual.
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HALOGEN
HALOGEN
An electro-negative element or radical, which, by combinationwith a metal, forms a haloid salt; especially, chlorine, bromine, andiodine; sometimes, also, fluorine and cyanogen. See Chlorine family,under Chlorine.
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EXPEDITIONIST
EXPEDITIONIST
One who goes upon an expedition. [R].
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DAYBREAK
DAYBREAK
The time of the first appearance of light in the morning.