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17/10/2025

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INTERCALATION

The insertion of a day, or other portion of time, in acalendar.

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OSTEOTOME

Strong nippers or a chisel for dividing bone.

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REGREET

To greet again; to resalute; to return a salutation to; togreet. Shak.

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DEVORATION

The act of devouring. [Obs.] Holinshed.

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WHOEVER

Whatever person; any person who; be or she who; any one who;as, he shall be punished, whoever he may be. "Whoever envies orrepines." Milton. "Whoever the king favors." Shak.

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SPURT

To gush or issue suddenly or violently out in a stream, asliquor from a cask; to rush from a confined place in a small streamor jet; to spirt.Thus the small jet, which hasty hands unlock, Spurts in thegardener's eyes who turns the cock. Pope.

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CYCLOPEAN

Pertaining to the Cyclops; characteristic of the Cyclops; huge;gigantic; vast and rough; massive; as, Cyclopean labors; Cyclopeanarchitecture.

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CULMINANT

Being vertical, or at the highest point of altitude; hence,predominant. [R.]

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ADMONITOR

Admonisher; monitor.Conscience is at most times a very faithful and prudent admonitor.Shenstone.

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TREATER

One who treats; one who handles, or discourses on, a subject;also, one who entertains.

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COMMONITION

Advice; warning; instruction. [Obs.] Bailey.

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PRINCESSE

A term applied to a lady's long, close-fitting dress made withwaist and skirt in one.