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02/06/2025

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DULCE

To make sweet; to soothe. [Obs.]

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SHAB

The itch in animals; also, a scab. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.]

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MUFLON

See Mouflon.

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SETTLEDNESS

The quality or state of being settled; confirmed state. [R.]Bp. Hall.

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DACTYL

A poetical foot of three sylables (-- ~ ~), one long followedby two short, or one accented followed by two unaccented; as, L.tëgmînê, E. mer"ciful; -- so called from the similarity of itsarrangement to that of the joints of a finger. [Written alsodactyle.]

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YODE

Went; walked; proceeded. [Written also yede.] See Yede.Quer [whether] they rade [rode] or yoke. Cursor Mundi.Then into Cornhill anon I yode. Lydgate.

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PLY

To work to windward; to beat.

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IMITABILITY

The quality of being imitable. Norris.

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FELE

Many. [Obs.] Chaucer.

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V MOTH

A common gray European moth (Halia vauaria) having a V-shapedspot of dark brown on each of the fore wings.

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DAISIED

Full of daisies; adorned with daisies. "The daisied green."Langhorne.The grass all deep and daisied. G. Eliot.

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PNEUMONIC

A medicine for affections of the lungs.