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15/07/2025

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SPORTLESS

Without sport or mirth; joyless.

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PROPLASTICS

The art of making molds for castings. [R.]

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ABSTRACTIVELY

In a abstract manner; separately; in or by itself. Feltham.

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QUADRIPARTITELY

In four parts.

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LARCENOUS

Having the character of larceny; as, a larcenous act;committing larceny. "The larcenous and burglarious world." SydneySmith.-- Lar"ce*nous*ly, adv.

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SONORAN

Pertaining to or designating the arid division of the Australzone, including the warmer parts of the western United States andcentral Mexico. It is divided into the Upper Sonoran, which lies nextto the Transition zone, and the Lower Sonoran, next to the Tropical.

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MAKE-BELIEF

A feigning to believe; make believe. J. H. Newman.

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FUMIFUGIST

One who, or that which, drives away smoke or fumes.

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JACOB

A Hebrew patriarch (son of Isaac, and ancestor of the Jews),who in a vision saw a ladder reaching up to heaven (Gen. xxviii. 12);-- also called Israel.And Jacob said . . . with my staff I passed over this Jordan, and nowI am become two bands. Gen. xxxii. 9, 10.Thy name shall be called no more Jacob, but Israel. Gen. xxxii. 28.Jacob's ladder. (a) (Bot.) A perennial herb of the genus Polemonium(P. coeruleum), having corymbs of drooping flowers, usually blue.Gray. (b) (Naut.) A rope ladder, with wooden steps, for going aloft.R. H. Dana, Jr. (c) (Naut.) A succession of short cracks in adefective spar.-- Jacob's membrane. See Retina.-- Jacob's staff. (a) A name given to many forms of staff or weapon,especially in the Middle Ages; a pilgrim's staff. [Obs.] Spenser. (b)(Surveying) See under Staff.

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MELIPHAGOUS

Eating, or feeding upon, honey.

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DEBATEFUL

Full of contention; contentious; quarrelsome. [Obs.] Spenser.

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STARTFUL

Apt to start; skittish. [R.]