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25/10/2025

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TORTUROUS

Involving, or pertaining to, torture. [R.] "The torturouscrucifixion." I. Disraeli.

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GOR-BELLY

A prominent belly; a big-bellied person. [Obs.]

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CONCORDANCY

Agreement. W. Montagu.

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LUNETTE

A fieldwork consisting of two faces, forming a salient angle,and two parallel flanks. See Bastion.

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OVERSHOE

A shoe that is worn over another for protection from wet or forextra warmth; esp., an India-rubber shoe; a galoche.

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PUSIL

Very small; little; petty. [Obs.] Bacon.

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OCCIPITO-

A combining form denoting relation to, or situation near, theocciput; as, occipito-axial; occipito-mastoid.

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GNATHIDIUM

The ramus of the lower jaw of a bird as far as it is naked; --commonly used in the plural.

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KAVASS

An armed constable; also, a government servant or courier.[Turkey]

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BROWN

Of a dark color, of various shades between black and red oryellow.Cheeks brown as the oak leaves. Longfellow.Brown Bess, the old regulation flintlock smoothbore musket, withbronzed barrel, formerly used in the British army.-- Brown bread (a) Dark colored bread; esp. a kind made of unboltedwheat flour, sometimes called in the United States Graham bread. "Hewould mouth with a beggar though she smelt brown bread and garlic."Shak. (b) Dark colored bread made of rye meal and Indian meal, or ofwheat and rye or Indian; rye and Indian bread. [U.S.] -- Brown coal,wood coal. See Lignite.-- Brown hematite or Brown iron ore (Min.), the hydrous iron oxide,limonite, which has a brown streak. See Limonite.-- Brown holland. See under Holland.-- Brown paper, dark colored paper, esp. coarse wrapping paper, madeof unbleached materials.-- Brown spar (Min.), a ferruginous variety of dolomite, in partidentical with ankerite.-- Brown stone. See Brownstone.-- Brown stout, a strong kind of proter or malt liquor.-- Brown study, a state of mental abstraction or serious reverie. W.Irving.

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LYMPHY

Containing, or like, lymph.

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SHODDYISM

The quality or state of being shoddy. [Colloq.] See the Noteunder Shoddy, n.