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11/11/2025

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MARJORAM

A genus of mintlike plants (Origanum) comprising about twenty-five species. The sweet marjoram (O. Majorana) is pecularly aromaticand fragrant, and much used in cookery. The wild marjoram of Europeand America is O. vulgare, far less fragrant than the other.

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SIPUNCULACEA

A suborder of Gephyrea, including those which have the bodyunarmed and the intestine opening anteriorly.

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FLIX

Down; fur. [Obs. or Eng.] J. Dyer.

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MULL

A thin, soft kind of muslin.

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OSTENSIBILITY

The quality or state of being ostensible.

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PIPING

A small European bat (Vesperugo pipistrellus); -- called alsoflittermouse.

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FAST

That which fastens or holds; especially, (Naut.) a mooringrope, hawser, or chain; -- called, according to its position, a bow,head, quarter, breast, or stern fast; also, a post on a pier aroundwhich hawsers are passed in mooring.

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WATER TREE

A climbing shrub (Tetracera alnifolia, or potatoria) of WesternAfrica, which pours out a watery sap from the freshly cut stems.

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DECIDUATE

Possessed of, or characterized by, a decidua.

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PROTOCONCH

The embryonic shell, or first chamber, of ammonites and othercephalopods.

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TRIGRAM

Same as Trigraph.

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PROSE

A hymn with no regular meter, sometimes introduced into theMass. See Sequence.