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24/05/2025

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UPBREED

To rear, or bring up; to nurse. "Upbred in a foreign country."Holinshed.

#5600

SOUNE

To sound. [Obs.] Chaucer.

#35912

DOCIMACY

The art or practice of applying tests to ascertain the nature,quality, etc., of objects, as of metals or ores, of medicines, or offacts pertaining to physiology.

#80957

BLASTEMATIC

Connected with, or proceeding from, the blastema; blastemal.

#83167

GINGAL

See Jingal.

#19816

MOLECAST

A little elevation of earth made by a mole; a molehill.Mortimer.

#8534

SUBSCRIPT

Written below or underneath; as, iota subscript. (See underIota.) Specifically (Math.), said of marks, figures, or letters(suffixes), written below and usually to the right of other lettersto distinguish them; as, a, n, 2, in the symbols Xa, An, Y2. SeeSuffix, n., 2, and Subindex.

#49804

EYEGLANCE

A glance of eye.

#39808

CATAPHRACT

Defensive armor used for the whole body and often for thehorse, also, esp. the linked mail or scale armor of some easternnations.

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PHOSGENITE

A rare mineral occurring in tetragonal crystals of a white,yellow, or grayish color and adamantine luster. It is achlorocarbonate of lead.

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EXOLUTION

See Exsolution. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

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ARCUBALISTER

A crossbowman; one who used the arcubalist. Camden.