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20/10/2025
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FEROCIOUS
FEROCIOUS
Fierce; savage; wild; indicating cruelty; ravenous; rapacious;as, ferocious look or features; a ferocious lion.The humbled power of a ferocious enemy. Lowth.
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HAFTER
HAFTER
A caviler; a wrangler. [Obs.] Baret.
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GREVE
GREVE
A grove. [Obs.] Chaucer.
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CASSAVA
CASSAVA
A shrubby euphorbiaceous plant of the genus Manihot, withfleshy rootstocks yielding an edible starch; -- called also manioc.
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MISCHRISTEN
MISCHRISTEN
To christen wrongly.
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MOTION PICTURE
MOTION PICTURE
A moving picture.
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KITTEN
KITTEN
A young cat.
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NAOS
NAOS
A term used by modern archæologists instead of cella. SeeCella.
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PRALINE
PRALINE
A confection made of nut kernels, usually of almonds, roastedin boiling sugar until brown and crisp.
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DOCTORLY
DOCTORLY
Like a doctor or learned man. [Obs.] "Doctorly prelates." Foxe.
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ALGUM
ALGUM
Same as Almug (and etymologically preferable). 2 Chron. ii. 8.
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VOICEFUL
VOICEFUL
Having a voice or vocal quality; having a loud voice or manyvoices; vocal; sounding.Beheld the Iliad and the Odyssey Rise to the swelling of the voicefulsea. Coleridge.