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29/08/2025

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FASHIONABLY

In a fashionable manner.

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LOSING

Given to flattery or deceit; flattering; cozening. [Obs.]Amongst the many simoniacal that swarmed in the land, Herbert, Bishopof Thetford, must not be forgotten; nick-named Losing, that is, theFratterer. Fuller.

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AETHER

See Ether.

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HOLWE

Hollow. [Obs.] Chaucer.

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BOWNE

To make ready; to prepare; to dress. [Obs.]We will all bowne ourselves for the banquet. Sir W. Scott.

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CARRON OIL

A lotion of linseed oil and lime water, used as an applicationto burns and scalds; -- first used at the Carron iron works inScotland.

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DISAPPROVINGLY

In a disapproving manner.

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POSTURER

One who postures.

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SHOT-CLOG

A person tolerated only because he pays the shot, or reckoning,for the rest of the company, otherwise a mere clog on them. [OldSlang]Thou common shot-clog, gull of all companies. Chapman.

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CURTAL FRIAR

A friar who acted as porter at the gate of a monastery. Sir W.Scott.

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HUN

One of a warlike nomadic people of Northern Asia who, in the5th century, under Atilla, invaded and conquered a great part ofEurope.

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TRACHEA

The windpipe. See Illust. of Lung.