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11/03/2026

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TIMIST

A performer who keeps good time.

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MOUNTAIN SPECTER

An optical phenomenon sometimes seen on the summit of mountains(as on the Brocken) when the observer is between the sun and a massof cloud. The figures of the observer and surrounding objects areseen projected on the cloud, greatly enlarged and often encircled byrainbow colors.

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APYRETIC

Without fever; -- applied to days when there is an intermissionof fever. Dunglison.

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ABSTAIN

To hold one's self aloof; to forbear or refrain voluntarily,and especially from an indulgence of the passions or appetites; --with from.Not a few abstained from voting. Macaulay.Who abstains from meat that is not gaunt Shak.

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ARGENTIFEROUS

Producing or containing silver; as, argentiferous lead ore orveins.

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HOLIBUT

See Halibut.

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HELLENIZE

To use the Greek language; to play the Greek; to Grecize.

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MULTIVOCAL

Signifying many different things; of manifold meaning;equivocal. "An ambiguous multivocal word." Coleridge.-- n.

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ZOHAR

A Jewish cabalistic book attributed by tradition to Rabbi Simonben Yochi, who lived about the end of the 1st century, a. d. Moderncritics believe it to be a compilation of the 13th century. Encyc.Brit.

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UNMANNERLY

Not mannerly; ill-bred; rude.-- adv.

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GALLOWAY

A small horse of a breed raised at Galloway, Scotland; --called also garran, and garron.

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EXPEND

To lay out, apply, or employ in any way; to consume by use; touse up or distribute, either in payment or in donations; to spend;as, they expend money for food or in charity; to expend time labor,and thought; to expend hay in feeding cattle, oil in a lamp, water inmechanical operations.If my death might make this island happy . . . I would expend it withall willingness. Shak.