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01/11/2025

#1650

FROLIC

Full of levity; dancing, playing, or frisking about; full ofpranks; frolicsome; gay; merry.The frolic wind that breathes the spring. Milton.The gay, the frolic, and the loud. Waller.

#53066

INCLAMATION

Exclamation. [Obs.] Bp. Hall.

#49064

FLYBLOWN

Tainted or contaminated with flyblows; damaged; foul.Wherever flyblown reputations were assembled. Thackeray.

#73187

KEMPT

p. p. of Kemb. B. Jonson.

#74636

UNIFILAR

Having only one thread; involving the use of only one thread,wire, fiber, or the like; as, unifilar suspension. Unifilarmagnetometer (Physics), an instrument which consists of a magneticbar suspended at its center of gravity by a long thread, constitutinga delicate means for accurately measuring magnetic intensities, alsofor determining declinations of the magnetic needle.

#22840

OXTONGUE

A name given to several plants, from the shape and roughness oftheir leaves; as, Anchusa officinalis, a kind of bugloss, andHelminthia echioides, both European herbs.

#27286

SPHYGMOGRAPHIC

Relating to, or produced by, a sphygmograph; as, asphygmographic tracing.

#63080

ENTEROTOME

A kind of scissors used for opening the intestinal canal, as inpost-mortem examinations.

#13459

BIRDLIME

An extremely adhesive viscid substance, usually made of themiddle bark of the holly, by boiling, fermenting, and cleansing it.When a twig is smeared with this substance it will hold small birdswhich may light upon it. Hence: Anything which insnares.Not birdlime or Idean pitch produce A more tenacious mass of clammyjuice. Dryden.

#57107

HOMAGEABLE

Subject to homage. Howell.

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VICINE

Near; neighboring; vicinal. [R.] Glanvill.

#5917

SOODRA

Same as Sudra.