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20/07/2025

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DETECTION

The act of detecting; the laying open what was concealed orhidden; discovery; as, the detection of a thief; the detection offraud, forgery, or a plot.Such secrets of guilt are never from detection. D. Webster.

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MELANCHOLIC

Given to melancholy; depressed; melancholy; dejected; unhappy.Just as the melancholic eye Sees fleets and armies in the sky. Prior.

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STRANGLE

To be strangled, or suffocated.

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PROPINYL

A hydrocarbon radical regarded as an essential residue ofpropine and allied compounds.

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STRANGLES

A disease in horses and swine, in which the upper part of thethroat, or groups of lymphatic glands elsewhere, swells.

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BOOTJACK

A device for pulling off boots.

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OMNIUM

The aggregate value of the different stocks in which a loan togovernment is now usually funded. M'Culloch.

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IMPORTUOUS

Without a port or harbor. [R.]

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UNPROMISE

To revoke or annul, as a promise. Chapman.

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QURAN

See Koran.

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OSSIFEROUS

Containing or yielding bone.

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COLON

That part of the large intestines which extends from the cæcumto the rectum.