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01/10/2025

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RHACHIGLOSSA

A division of marine gastropods having a retractile proboscisand three longitudinal rows of teeth on the radula. It includes manyof the large ornamental shells, as the miters, murices, olives,purpuras, volutes, and whelks. See Illust. in Append.

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-OUR

See -or.

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PANHELLENISM

A scheme to unite all the Greeks in one political body.

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DIADROM

A complete course or vibration; time of vibration, as of apendulum. [Obs.] Locke.

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CITIZENSHIP

The state of being a citizen; the status of a citizen.

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LITTORINA

A genus of small pectinibranch mollusks, having thick spiralshells, abundant between tides on nearly all rocky seacoasts. Theyfeed on seaweeds. The common periwinkle is a well-known example. SeePeriwinkle.

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EARTHLIGHT

The sunlight reflected from the earth to the moon, by which wesee faintly, when the moon is near the sun (either before or afternew moon), that part of the moon's disk unillumined by directsunlight, or "the old moon in the arms of the new."

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SEMILUNARY

Semilunar.

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BRIONY

See Bryony. Tennyson.

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GORGONZOLA

A kind of Italian pressed milk cheese; -- so called from avillage near Milan.

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COEXECUTRIX

A joint executrix.

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REPACE

To pace again; to walk over again in a contrary direction.