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19/06/2025

#24901

HUFFER

A bully; a blusterer. Hudibras.

#1546

AMATORY

Pertaining to, producing, or expressing, sexual love; as,amatory potions.

#80795

TETRABRANCHIATA

An order of Cephalopoda having four gills. Among living speciesit includes only the pearly nautilus. Numerous genera and species arefound in the fossil state, such as Ammonites, Baculites, Orthoceras,etc.

#21046

TETRA-

A combining form (also used adjectively) denoting fourproportional or combining parts of the substance or ingredientdenoted by the term to which it is prefixed, as in tetra-chloride,tetroxide.

#33300

SULPHOCYANIDE

See Sulphocyanate.

#19034

BEAKIRON

A bickern; a bench anvil with a long beak, adapted to reach theinterior surface of sheet metal ware; the horn of an anvil.

#15192

IMMINGLE

To mingle; to mix; to unite; to blend. [R.] Thomson.

#5510

LIMERICK

A nonsense poem of five anapestic lines, of which lines 1, 2,and 5 are of there feet, and rime, and lines 3 and 4 are of two feet,and rime; as --

#46688

ODALISQUE

A female slave or concubine in the harem of the Turkish sultan.[Written also odahlic, odalisk, and odalik.]Not of those that men desire, sleek Odalisques, or oracles of mode.Tennyson.

#30080

DRONISH

Like a drone; indolent; slow. Burke.-- Dron"ish*ly, adv.-- Dron"ish*ness, n.

#41080

LITHOFRACTEUR

An explosive compound of nitroglycerin. See Nitroglycerin.

#32662

DILLING

A darling; a favorite. [Obs.]Whilst the birds billing, Each one with his dilling. Drayton.