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13/07/2025

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FLOXED SILK

See Floss silk, under Floss.

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PRECEDENTIAL

Of the nature of a precedent; having force as an example forimitation; as, precedential transactions.All their actions in that time are not precedential to warrantposterity. Fuller.

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UNPALPED

Destitute of a palp.

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FOREIGNNESS

The quality of being foreign; remoteness; want of relation orappropriateness.Let not the foreignness of the subject hinder you from endeavoring toset me right. Locke.A foreignness of complexion. G. Eliot.

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ENJOYER

One who enjoys.

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IMPENDING

Hanging over; overhanging; suspended so as to menace; imminet;threatening.An impending brow. Hawthorne.And nodding Ilion waits th' impending fall. Pope.

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LETHALITY

The quality of being lethal; mortality.

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BOTANOMANCY

An ancient species of divination by means of plants, esp. sageand fig leaves.

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INGRAFTER

A person who ingrafts.

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MULTIPRESENCE

The state or power of being multipresent.The multipresence of Christ's body. Bp. Hall.

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-LY

A suffix forming adjectives and adverbs, and denoting likenessor resemblance.

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DWARFY

Much undersized. [R.] Waterhouse.