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26/07/2025

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CONDENSER

An apparatus for receiving and condensing the volatile productsof distillation to a liquid or solid form, by cooling.

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SUBSTANTIVE

A noun or name; the part of speech which designates somethingthat exists, or some object of thought, either material orimmaterial; as, the words man, horse, city, goodness, excellence, aresubstantives.

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MIDDLE

The point or part equally distant from the extremities orexterior limits, as of a line, a surface, or a solid; an interveningpoint or part in space, time, or order of series; the midst; centralportion; specif., the waist. Chaucer. "The middle of the land." Judg.ix. 37.In this, as in most questions of state, there is a middle. Burke.

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SEA LETTER

The customary certificate of national character which neutralmerchant vessels are bound to carry in time of war; a passport for avessel and cargo.

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BOOTHALE

To forage for booty; to plunder. [Obs.] Beau. & Fl.

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EPIGEE

See Perigee. [Obs.]

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SUPERCARBONATE

A bicarbonate. [Obsoles.]

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SPHAERULITE

Same as Spherulite.

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CATERER

One who caters.The little fowls in the air have God for Their provider and caterer.Shelton.

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PHOSPHOROUS

Of or pertaining to phosphorus; resembling or containingphosphorus; specifically, designating those compounds in whichphosphorus has a lower valence as contrasted with phosphoriccompounds; as, phosphorous acid, H3PO3.

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TRICKSY

Exhibiting artfulness; trickish. "My tricksy spirit!" Shak.he tricksy policy which in the seventeenth century passed for statewisdom. Coleridge.

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STERNMOST

Farthest in the rear; farthest astern; as, the sternmost shipin a convoy.