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INAUGURATORY

Suitable for, or pertaining to, inauguration. Johnson.

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CORPORATURE

The state of being embodied; bodily existence. [Obs.] Dr. H.More.

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LONGBOAT

Formerly, the largest boat carried by a merchant vessel,corresponding to the launch of a naval vessel.

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DIVIDUOUS

Divided; dividual. [R.]He so often substantiates distinctions into dividuous,selfsubsistent. Coleridge.

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PULMOMETRY

The determination of the capacity of the lungs.

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DEFOREST

To clear of forests; to dis U. S. Agric. Reports.

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INTREATFUL

Full of entreaty. [Obs.] Spenser.

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CREDIT

Trust given or received; expectation of future playment forproperty transferred, or of fulfillment or promises given; mercantilereputation entitling one to be trusted; -- applied to individuals,corporations, communities, or nations; as, to buy goods on credit.Credit is nothing but the expectation of money, within some limitedtime. Locke.

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SUICIDICAL

Suicidal. [Obs.]

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TRINKET

A three-cornered sail formerly carried on a ship's foremast,probably on a lateen yard.Sailing always with the sheets of mainsail and trinket warily in ourhands. Hakluyt.

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HAMMER

That part of a gunlock which strikes the percussion cap, orfiring pin; the cock; formerly, however, a piece of steel coveringthe pan of a flintlock musket and struck by the flint of the cock toignite the priming.(e) Also, a person of thing that smites or shatters; as, St.Augustine was the hammer of heresies.He met the stern legionaries [of Rome] who had been the "massive ironhammers" of the whole earth. J. H. Newman.Atmospheric hammer, a dead-stroke hammer in which the spring isformed by confined air.-- Drop hammer, Face hammer, etc. See under Drop, Face, etc.-- Hammer fish. See Hammerhead.-- Hammer hardening, the process of hardening metal by hammering itwhen cold.-- Hammer shell (Zoöl.), any species of Malleus, a genus of marinebivalve shells, allied to the pearl oysters, having the wings narrowand elongated, so as to give them a hammer-shaped outline; -- calledalso hammer oyster.-- To bring to the hammer, to put up at auction.

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ABIB

The first month of the Jewish ecclesiastical year,corresponding nearly to our April. After the Babylonish captivitythis month was called Nisan. Kitto.