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28/08/2025

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ROTAL

Relating to wheels or to rotary motion; rotary. [R.]

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DIGRESSIVELY

By way of digression.

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UNHEALTH

Unsoundness; disease.

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CROWN-POST

Same as King-post.

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WIDE-ANGLE

Having or covering an angle wider than the ordinary; -- appliedto certain lenses of relatively short focus. Lenses for ordinarypurposes have an angle of 50º or less. Wide-angle lenses may cover asmuch as 100º and are useful for photographing at short range, but thepictures appear distorted.

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MORT

A great quantity or number. [Prov. Eng.]There was a mort of merrymaking. Dickens.

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KISSINGCRUST

The portion of the upper crust of a loaf which has touchedanother loaf in baking. Lamb.A massy fragment from the rich kissingcrust that hangs like a frettedcornice from the upper half of the loaf. W. Howitt.

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EXILEMENT

Banishment. [R.] Sir. H. Wotton.

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THAUMATROPE

An optical instrument or toy for showing the presistence of animpression upon the eyes after the luminous object is withdrawn.

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BAIN

A bath; a bagnio. [Obs.] Holland.

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FRED

Peace; -- a word used in composition, especially in propernames; as, Alfred; Frederic.

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HYDROPHANOUS

Made transparent by immersion in water.