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ICTIC

Pertaining to, or caused by, a blow; sudden; abrupt. [R.] H.Bushnell.

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ILLUDE

To play upon by artifice; to deceive; to mock; to excite anddisappoint the hopes of.

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SHRUBLESS

having no shrubs. Byron.

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DINOCERAS

A genus of large extinct Eocene mammals from Wyoming; -- calledalso Uintatherium. See Illustration in Appendix.

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STYRONE

A white crystalline substance having a sweet taste and ahyacinthlike odor, obtained by the decomposition of styracin; --properly called cinnamic, or styryl, alcohol.

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APOPLEX

Apoplexy. [Obs.] Dryden.

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AGNATIC

Pertaining to descent by the male line of ancestors. "Theagnatic succession." Blackstone.

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DIISATOGEN

A red crystalline nitrogenous substance or artificialproduction, which by reduction passes directly to indigo.

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SOONLY

Soon. [Obs.] Dr. H. More.

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RAISER

One who, or that which, raises (in various senses of the verb).

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HEGELIAN

Pertaining to Hegelianism.-- n.

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CRIPPLE

One who creeps, halts, or limps; one who has lost, or neverhad, the use of a limb or limbs; a lame person; hence, one who ispartially disabled.I am a cripple in my limbs; but what decays are in my mind, thereader must determine. Dryden.