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03/07/2025

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AMELIORATOR

One who ameliorates.

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PRIORESS

A lady superior of a priory of nuns, and next in dignity to anabbess.

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SIPPLING

Sipping often. [Obs.] "Taken after a sippling sort." Holland.

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SEABORD

See Seaboard.

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NICOTINE

An alkaloid which is the active principle of tobacco. It is acolorless, transparent, oily liquid, having an acrid odor, and anacrid burning taste. It is intensely poisonous. Ure.

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PERISTALTIC

Applied to the peculiar wormlike wave motion of the intestinesand other similar structures, produced by the successive contractionof the muscular fibers of their walls, forcing their contentsonwards; as, peristaltic movement.-- Per`i*stal"tic*al*ly, adv.

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COUNTERFLEURY

Counterflory.

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STINGO

Old beer; sharp or strong liquor. [Old Slang]Shall I set a cup of old stingo at your elbow Addison.

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NINEPINS

A game played with nine pins, or pieces of wood, set on end, atwhich a wooden ball is bowled to knock them down; bowling.

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BOASTLESS

Without boasting or ostentation.

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QUADRAGESIMAL

Belonging to Lent; used in Lent; Lenten.

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INTERCLOSE

To shut in; to inclose. [Obs.]