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09/06/2025

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QUERIMONIOUS

Complaining; querulous; apt to complain.-- Quer`i*mo"ni*ous*ly, adv.-- Quer`i*mo"ni*ous*ness, n.

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STRELITZIA

A genus of plants related to the banana, found at the Cape ofGood Hope. They have rigid glaucous distichous leaves, and peculiarrichly colored flowers.

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PREVENTER

An auxiliary rope to strengthen a mast. Preventer bolts, orPreventer plates (Naut.), fixtures connected with preventers toreënforce other rigging.-- Preventer stay. (Naut.) Same as Preventer, 3.

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NOLE

The head. [Obs.] Shak.

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BRININESS

The state or quality of being briny; saltness; brinishness.

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CLASSIFIC

Characterizing a class or classes; relating to classification.

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LANCE FISH

A slender marine fish of the genus Ammodytes, especiallyAmmodytes tobianus of the English coast; -- called also sand lance.

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RATAPLAN

The iterative sound of beating a drum, or of a galloping horse.

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ATHALAMOUS

Not furnished with shields or beds for the spores, as thethallus of certain lichens.

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KNAPSACK

A case of canvas or leather, for carrying on the back asoldier's necessaries, or the clothing, etc., of a traveler.And each one fills his knapsack or his scrip With some rare thingthat on the field is found. Drayton.

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LIMITIVE

Involving a limit; as, a limitive law, one designed to limitexisting powers. [R.]

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XYLONITE

See Zylonite.