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15/05/2025

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CARVEN

Wrought by carving; ornamented by carvings; carved. [Poetic]A carven bowl well wrought of beechen tree. Bp. Hall.The carven cedarn doors. Tennyson.A screen of carven ivory. Mrs. Browning.

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LAWSONIA

An Asiatic and North African shrub (Lawsonia inermis), withsmooth oval leaves, and fragrant white flowers. Henna is preparedfrom the leaves and twigs. In England the shrub is called Egyptianprivet, and in the West Indies, Jamaica mignonette.

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AURUM

Gold. Aurum fulminans (See Fulminate.-- Aurum mosaicum (See Mosaic.

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VANE

The rhachis and web of a feather taken together.

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DISESPOUSE

To release from espousal or plighted faith. [Poetic] Milton.

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TAMIL

Of or pertaining to the Tamils, or to their language. [Writtenalso Tamul.]

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ELEGIZE

To lament in an elegy; to celebrate in elegiac verse; tobewail. Carlyle.

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REJECTION

Act of rejecting, or state of being rejected.

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MARONITE

One of a body of nominal Christians, who speak the Arabiclanguage, and reside on Mount Lebanon and in different parts ofSyria. They take their name from one Maron of the 6th century.

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STYLOPS

A genus of minute insects parasitic, in their larval state, onbees and wasps. It is the typical genus of the group Strepsiptera,formerly considered a distinct order, but now generally referred tothe Coleoptera. See Strepsiptera.

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SILENUS

See Wanderoo.

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MISERLY

Like a miser; very covetous; sordid; niggardly.