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30/06/2025

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BABA

A kind of plum cake.

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CABLEGRAM

A message sent by a submarine telegraphic cable.

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ATMIDOMETER

An instrument for measuring the evaporation from water, ice, orsnow. Brande & C.

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SURCEASE

Cessation; stop; end. "Not desire, but its surcease."Longfellow.It is time that there were an end and surcease made of this immodestand deformed manner of writing. Bacon.

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ENTRENCH

See Intrench.

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VIOLATION

The act of violating, treating with violence, or injuring; thestate of being violated. Specifically: --(a) Infringement; transgression; nonobservance; as, the violation oflaw or positive command, of covenants, promises, etc. "The violationof my faith." Shak.(b) An act of irreverence or desecration; profanation or contemptuoustreatment of sacred things; as, the violation of a church. Udall.(c) Interruption, as of sleep or peace; disturbance.(d) Ravishment; rape; outrage. Shak.

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PUNCTIFORM

Having the form of a point.

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WAYMENT

To lament; to grieve; to wail. [Written also waiment.] [Obs.]Thilke science . . . maketh a man to waymenten. Chaucer.For what boots it to weep and wayment, When ill is chanced Spenser.

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PAPALIST

A papist. [Obs.] Baxter.

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TRIFORMITY

The state of being triform, or of having a threefold shape.

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PERSPICACITY

The state of being perspicacious; acuteness of sight or ofintelligence; acute discernment. Sir T. Browne.

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NOVELIST

A writer of news. [Obs.] Tatler (178).