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17/05/2025

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HUNGERER

One who hungers; one who longs. Lamb.

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CONCUPISCENTIOUS

Concupiscent. [Obs.]

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PAPISTRY

The doctrine and ceremonies of the Church of Rome; popery. [R.]Whitgift.

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HEART-SPOON

A part of the breastbone. [Obs.]He feeleth through the herte-spon the pricke. Chaucer.

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HAVERSIAN

Pertaining to, or discovered by, Clopton Havers, an Englishphysician of the seventeenth century. Haversian canals (Anat.), thesmall canals through which the blood vessels ramify in bone.

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SUNSHINE

Sunshiny; bright. Shak. "Sunshine hours." Keble.

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LEMUR

One of a family (Lemuridæ) of nocturnal mammals allied to themonkeys, but of small size, and having a sharp and foxlike muzzle,and large eyes. They feed upon birds, insects, and fruit, and aremostly natives of Madagascar and the neighboring islands, one genus(Galago) occurring in Africa. The slow lemur or kukang of the EastIndies is Nycticebus tardigradus. See Galago, Indris, and Colugo.

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LAVATURE

A wash or lotion. [Obs.]

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REGELATE

To freeze together again; to undergo regelation, as ice.

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PARKLEAVES

A European species of Saint John's-wort; the tutsan. SeeTutsan.

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DUNGMEER

A pit where dung and weeds rot for manure.

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THULIA

Oxide of thulium.