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01/06/2025
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SENECTITUDE
SENECTITUDE
Old age. [R.] "Senectitude, weary of its toils." H. Miller.
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CONCEPTIOUS
CONCEPTIOUS
Apt to conceive; fruitful. [Obs.] Shak.
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KESLOP
KESLOP
The stomach of a calf, prepared for rennet. Halliwell.
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QUINIDINE
QUINIDINE
An alkaloid isomeric with, and resembling, quinine, found incertain species of cinchona, from which it is extracted as a bitterwhite crystalline substance; conchinine. It is used somewhat as afebrifuge. [Written also chinidine.]
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LIVE-FOREVER
LIVE-FOREVER
A plant (Sedum Telephium) with fleshy leaves, which has extremepowers of resisting drought; garden ox-pine.
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RETRUSION
RETRUSION
The act of retruding, or the state of being retruded.In virtue of an endless remotion or retrusion of the constituentcause. Coleridge.
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OCHRACEOUS
OCHRACEOUS
Ocherous.
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VERONICA
VERONICA
A genus scrophulariaceous plants; the speedwell. See Speedwell.
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CORONOID
CORONOID
Resembling the beak of a crow; as, the coronoid process of thejaw, or of the ulna.
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IXIA
IXIA
A South African bulbous plant of the Iris family, remarkablefor the brilliancy of its flowers.
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MELT
MELT
See 2d Milt.
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PORTRESS
PORTRESS
A female porter. Milton.