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10/08/2025

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MAILCLAD

Protected by a coat of mail; clad in armor. Sir W. Scott.

#30955

FLAMMABLE

Inflammable. [Obs.]

#52757

RATIONAL

Expressing the type, structure, relations, and reactions of acompound; graphic; -- said of formulæ. See under Formula. Rationalhorizon. (Astron.) See Horizon, 2 (b).-- Rational quantity (Alg. ), one that can be expressed without theuse of a radical sign, or in extract parts of unity; -- opposed toirrational or radical quantity.-- Rational symptom (Med.), one elicited by the statements of thepatient himself and not as the result of a physical examination.

#43

ULVA

A genus of thin papery bright green seaweeds including thekinds called sea lettuce.

#8105

NON SEQUITUR

An inference which does not follow from the premises.

#18308

JUTE

The coarse, strong fiber of the East Indian Corchorusolitorius, and C. capsularis; also, the plant itself. The fiber ismuch used for making mats, gunny cloth, cordage, hangings, paper,etc.

#72919

LANCER

A set of quadrilles of a certain arrangement. [Written alsolanciers.]

#33059

LANDING

Of, pertaining to or used for, setting, bringing, or going, onshore. Landing charges, charges or fees paid on goods unloaded from avessel.-- Landing net, a small, bag-shaped net, used in fishing to take thefish from the water after being hooked.-- Landing stage, a floating platform attached at one end to a wharfin such a manner as to rise and fall with the tide, and thusfacilitate passage between the wharf and a vessel lying beside thestage.-- Landing waiter, a customhouse officer who oversees the landing ofgoods, etc., from vessels; a landwaiter.

#24876

CHERUP

To make a short, shrill, cheerful sound; to chirp. See Chirrup."Cheruping birds." Drayton.

#47464

PALL

Same as Pawl.

#52941

DEPLORABLE

Worthy of being deplored or lamented; lamentable; causinggrief; hence, sad; calamitous; grievous; wretched; as, life's evilsare deplorable.Individual sufferers are in a much more deplorable conditious thanany others. Burke.

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SEAMAN

A merman; the male of the mermaid. [R.] "Not to mentionmermaids or seamen." Locke.