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11/08/2025

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BILLOWY

Of or pertaining to billows; swelling or swollen into largewaves; full of billows or surges; resembling billows.And whitening down the many-tinctured stream, Descends the billowyfoam. Thomson.

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OPERAMETER

An instrument or machine for measuring work done, especiallyfor ascertaining the number of rotations made by a machine or wheelin manufacturing cloth; a counter. Ure.

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STRALE

Pupil of the eye. [Prov. Eng.]

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EURYPTERUS

A genus of extinct Merostomata, found in Silurian rocks. Someof the species are more than three feet long.

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USSELF

Ourselves. [Obs.] Wyclif. Piers Plowman. Chaucer.

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CYCADACEOUS

Pertaining to, or resembling, an order of plants like thepalms, but having exogenous wood. The sago palm is an example.

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INTERSECTIONAL

Pertaining to, or formed by, intersections.

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WAXBERRY

The wax-covered fruit of the wax myrtle, or bayberry. SeeBayberry, and Candleberry tree.

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BETA RAYS

Penetrating rays readily deflected by a magnetic or electricfield, emitted by radioactive substances, as radium. They consist ofnegatively charged particles or electrons, apparently the same inkind as those of the cathode rays, but having much higher velocities(about 35,000 to 180,000 miles per second).

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ASIAN

Of or pertaining to Asia; Asiatic. "Asian princes." Jer.Taylor.-- n.

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BUTT SHAFT

An arrow without a barb, for shooting at butts; an arrow. [Alsobut shaft.] Shak.

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PARAGNATH

Same as Paragnathus.