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18/05/2025

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OGRESS

A female ogre. Tennyson.

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FEVERY

Feverish. [Obs.] B. Jonson.

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ESTREPE

To strip or lay bare, as land of wood, houses, etc.; to commitwaste.

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SCIUROMORPHA

A tribe of rodents containing the squirrels and allied animals,such as the gophers, woodchucks, beavers, and others.

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RECLUSELY

In a recluse or solitary manner.

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GOOSANDER

A species of merganser (M. merganser) of Northern Europe andAmerica; -- called also merganser, dundiver, sawbill, sawneb,shelduck, and sheldrake. See Merganser.

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ENVERMEIL

To color with, or as with, vermilion; to dye red. [Obs.]Milton.

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SEMBLE

It seems; -- chiefly used impersonally in reports and judgmentsto express an opinion in reference to the law on some point notnecessary to be decided, and not intended to be definitely settled inthe cause.

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OSCITANTLY

In an oscitant manner.

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APPETIZING

Exciting appetite; as, appetizing food.The appearance of the wild ducks is very appetizing. Sir W. Scott.

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SLANT

To be turned or inclined from a right line or level; to lieobliquely; to slope.On the side of younder slanting hill. Dodsley.

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COGITABLE

Capable of being brought before the mind as a throught or idea;conceivable; thinkable.Creation is cogitable by us only as a putting forth of divine power.Sir W. Hamilton.