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22/07/2025

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ABUTTER

One who, or that which, abuts. Specifically, the owner of acontiguous estate; as, the abutters on a street or a river.

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WARM

Having yellow or red for a basis, or in their composition; --said of colors, and opposed to cold which is of blue and itscompounds.

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KICKSY-WICKSY

Fantastic; restless; as, kicksy-wicksy flames. Nares.

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DISPITEOUS

Full of despite; cruel; spiteful; pitiless. Spenser.-- Dis*pit"e*ous*ly, adv. [Obs.]

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HETEROGENEOUS

Differing in kind; having unlike qualities; possessed ofdifferent characteristics; dissimilar; -- opposed to homogeneous, andsaid of two or more connected objects, or of a conglomerate mass,considered in respect to the parts of which it is made up.-- Het`er*o*ge"ne*ous*ly, adv.-- Het`er*o*ge"ne*ous*ness, n. Heterogeneous nouns (Gram.), nounshaving different genders in the singular and plural numbers; as, hiclocus, of the masculine gender in the singular, and hi loci and hæcloca, both masculine and neuter in the plural; hoc cælum, neuter inthe singular; hi cæli, masculine in the plural.-- Heterogeneous quantities (Math.), such quantities as areincapable of being compared together in respect to magnitude, andsurfaces and solids.-- Heterogeneous surds (Math.), surds having different radicalsigns.

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WILDGRAVE

A waldgrave, or head forest keeper. See Waldgrave.The wildgrave winds his bugle horn. Sir W. Scott.

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SOB

To soak. [Obs.] Mortimer.

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PROVERBIALLY

In a proverbial manner; by way of proverb; hence, commonly;universally; as, it is proverbially said; the bee is proverbiallybusy.

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FILARIASIS

The presence of filariæ in the blood; infection with filariæ.

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SEVER

To disunite; to disconnect; to terminate; as, to sever anestate in joint tenancy. Blackstone.

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GRAVELLINESS

State of being gravelly.

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TRAULISM

A stammering or stuttering. [Obs.] Dalgarno.