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26/09/2025

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WATERINESS

The quality or state of being watery; moisture; humidity.

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TRISTITIATE

To make sad. [Obs.] Feltham.

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SHIP

Pay; reward. [Obs.]In withholding or abridging of the ship or the hire or the wages ofservants. Chaucer.

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SACROSCIATIC

Of or pertaining to both the sacrum and the hip; as, thesacrosciatic formina formed by the sacrosciatic ligaments whichconnect the sacrum and hip bone.

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BEPOMMEL

To pommel; to beat, as with a stick; figuratively, to assail orcriticise in conversation, or in writing. Thackeray.

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STEM

A curved piece of timber to which the two sides of a ship areunited at the fore end. The lower end of it is scarfed to the keel,and the bowsprit rests upon its upper end. Hence, the forward part ofa vessel; the bow.

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EPIDEMY

An epidemic disease. Dunglison.

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JANITOR

A door-keeper; a porter; one who has the care of a publicbuilding, or a building occupied for offices, suites of rooms, etc.

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THROSTLE

The song thrush. See under Song.

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FERMERERE

The officer in a religious house who had the care of theinfirmary. [Obs.]

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BETTY

A short bar used by thieves to wrench doors open. [Written alsobettee.]The powerful betty, or the artful picklock. Arbuthnot.

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CARABOID

Like, or pertaining to the genus Carabus.