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05/06/2025

#74085

STIFFEN

To become stiff or stiffer, in any sense of the adjective.Like bristles rose my stiffening hair. Dryden.The tender soil then stiffening by degrees. Dryden.Some souls we see, Grow hard and stiffen with adversity. Dryden.

#57728

TOOTHACHE

Pain in a tooth or in the teeth; odontalgia. Toothache grass(Bot.), a kind of grass (Ctenium Americanum) having a very pungenttaste.-- Toothache tree. (Bot.) (a) The prickly ash. (b) A shrub of thegenus Aralia (A. spinosa).

#38022

PROCRUSTESIAN

See Procrustean.

#1201

MISINTERPRETATION

The act of interpreting erroneously; a mistaken interpretation.

#62903

RUBELET

A little ruby. Herrick.

#69152

YULE

Christmas or Christmastide; the feast of the Nativity of ourSavior.And at each pause they kiss; was never seen such rule In any placebut here, at bonfire, or at Yule. Drayton.Yule block, or Yule log, a large log of wood formerly put on thehearth of Christmas eve, as the foundation of the fire. It wasbrought in with much ceremony.-- Yule clog, the yule log. Halliwell. W. Irving.

#47314

FECIAL

Pertaining to heralds, declarations of war, and treaties ofpeace; as, fecial law. Kent.

#1288

COCUS WOOD

A West Indian wood, used for making flutes and other musicalinstruments.

#4633

SELENIURETED

Combined with selenium as in a selenide; as, seleniuretedhydrogen. [Written also seleniuretted.] [Obsoles.]

#14093

FESTIVOUS

Pertaining to a feast; festive. [R.] Sir W. Scott.

#27983

QUICKEN

To shorten the radius of (a curve); to make (a curve) sharper;as, to quicken the sheer, that is, to make its curve more pronounced.

#68861

QUOTIETY

The relation of an object to number. Krauth-Fleming.