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12/07/2025

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IGNOMY

Ignominy. [R. & Obs.]I blush to think upon this ignomy. Shak.

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CLINK

To cause to give out a slight, sharp, tinkling, sound, as bystriking metallic or other sonorous bodies together.And let me the canakin clink. Shak.

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GRIPE

A vulture; the griffin. [Obs.]Like a white hind under the gripe's sharp claws. Shak.Gripe's egg, an alchemist's vessel. [Obs.] E. Jonson.

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APPROACH

To take approaches to.

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LIONHOOD

State of being a lion. Carlyle.

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NILT

Wilt not. [Obs.]

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REIF

Robbery; spoil. [Obs.]

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NEF

The nave of a church. Addison.

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URTICACEOUS

Of or pertaining to a natural order (Urticaceæ) of plants, ofwhich the nettle is the type. The order includes also the hop, theelm, the mulberry, the fig, and many other plants.

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OVERLORD

One who is lord over another or others; a superior lord; amaster. Freeman.

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PROXIMO

In the next month after the present; -- often contracted toprox.; as, on the 3d proximo.

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MILLENNIALIST

One who believes that Christ will reign personally on earth athousand years; a Chiliast; also, a believer in the universalprevalence of Christianity for a long period.