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19/08/2025

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SHANKED

Having a shank.

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PROEMPTOSIS

The addition of a day to the lunar calendar. [R.] SeeMetemptosis.

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THREATFUL

Full of threats; having a menacing appearance. Spenser.-- Threat"ful*ly, adv.

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PITTLE-PATTLE

To talk unmeaningly; to chatter or prattle. [R.] Latimer.

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TAMBREET

The duck mole.

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ADEPTNESS

The quality of being adept; skill.

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CONJOINT

United; connected; associated. "Influence conjoint." Glover.Conjoint degrees (Mus.), two notes which follow each otherimmediately in the order of the scale, as ut and re. Johnson.Conjoint tetrachords (Mus.), two tetrachords or fourths, where thesame note is the highest of one and the lowest of the other; -- alsowritten conjunct.

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CARCASE

See Carcass.

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ASHAMED

Affected by shame; abashed or confused by guilt, or aconviction or consciousness of some wrong action or impropriety. "Iam ashamed to beg." Wyclif.All that forsake thee shall be ashamed. Jer. xvii. 13.I began to be ashamed of sitting idle. Johnson.Enough to make us ashamed of our species. Macaulay.An ashamed person can hardly endure to meet the gaze of thosepresent. Darwin.

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HAEMAPOD

An hæmapodous animal. G. Rolleston.

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VENTRILOCUTION

Ventriloquism.

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FELONOUS

Wicked; felonious. [Obs.] Spenser.