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08/10/2025

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NICOTIANA

A genus of American and Asiatic solanaceous herbs, with viscidfoliage and funnel-shaped blossoms. Several species yield tobacco.See Tobacco.

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CUNEAL

Relating to a wedge; wedge-shaped.

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YAUTIA

In Porto Rico, any of several araceous plants or their starchyedible roots, which are cooked and eaten like yams or potatoes, asthe taro.

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ASQUINT

With the eye directed to one side; not in the straight line ofvision; obliquely; awry, so as to see distortedly; as, to lookasquint.

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CARCASE

See Carcass.

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ROSSEL CURRENT

A portion of the southern equatorial current flowing westwardfrom the Fiji Islands to New Guinea.

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LYTHE

The European pollack; -- called also laith, and leet. [Scot.]

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ELECTROGENY

A term sometimes applied to the effects (tetanus) produced inthe muscles of the limbs, when a current of electricity is passedalong the spinal cord or nerves.

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PSYCHAGOGUE

A necromancer. [R.]

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MISGRACIOUS

Not gracious. [Obs.]

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SHEENY

Bright; shining; radiant; sheen. "A sheeny summer morn."Tennyson.

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PERIWINKLE

Any small marine gastropod shell of the genus Littorina. Thecommon European species (Littorina littorea), in Europe extensivelyused as food, has recently become naturalized abundantly on theAmerican coast. See Littorina.