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11/10/2025

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FIRELOCK

An old form of gunlock, as the flintlock, which ignites thepriming by a spark; perhaps originally, a matchlock. Hence, a gunhaving such a lock.

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BEARD

Long or stiff hairs on a plant; the awn; as, the beard ofgrain.

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SYNONYMOUS

Having the character of a synonym; expressing the same thing;conveying the same, or approximately the same, idea.-- Syn*on"y*mous*ly, adv.These words consist of two propositions, which are not distinct insense, but one and the same thing variously expressed; for wisdom andunderstanding are synonymous words here. Tillotson.

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OBVENTION

The act of happening incidentally; that which happens casually;an incidental advantage; an occasional offering. [Obs.] "Tithes andother obventions." Spenser.Legacies bequeathed by the deaths of princes and great persons, andother casualities and obventions. Fuller.

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HUMILIATE

To reduce to a lower position in one's own eyes, or in the eyesof others; to humble; to mortify.We stand humiliated rather than encouraged. M. Arnold.

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HERACLEONITE

A follower of Heracleon of Alexandria, a Judaizing Gnostic, inthe early history of the Christian church.

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PENS

pl. of Penny. [Obs.] Chaucer.

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INSTAMP

See Enstamp.

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NONEFFECTIVE

Not fit or available for duty.

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THARMS

Twisted guts. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.] Ascham.

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REPREHENSORY

Containing reproof; reprehensive; as, reprehensory complaint.Johnson.

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AUTO-INTOXICATION

Poisoning, or the state of being poisoned, from toxicsubstances produced within the body; autotoxæmia.