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14/11/2025

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YLANG-YLANG

See Ihlang-ihlang.

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PROPODITE

The sixth joint of a typical leg of a crustacean; usually, thepenultimate joint.

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SKRINGE

See Scringe.

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AGGRACE

To favor; to grace. [Obs.] "That knight so much aggraced."Spenser.

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COMELY

In a becoming manner. Ascham.

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ROASTING

a. & n., from Roast, v. Roasting ear, an ear of Indian corn atthat stage of development when it is fit to be eaten roasted.-- Roasting jack, a machine for turning a spit on which meat isroasted.

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ARDASSINE

A very fine sort of Persian silk.

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EFFICIENT

Causing effects; producing results; that makes the effect to bewhat it is; actively operative; not inactive, slack, or incapable;characterized by energetic and useful activity; as, an efficientofficer, power.The efficient cause is the working cause. Wilson.

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RENABLE

Reasonable; also, loquacious. [Obs.] "Most renable of tongue."Piers Plowman.-- Ren"a*bly, adv. [Obs.] Chaucer.

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SCRIGGLE

To wriggle. [Prov. Eng.]

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SEMAPHORICALLY

By means a semaphore.

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SUPPLE

To become soft and pliant.The stones . . . Suppled into softness as they fell. Dryden.