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08/12/2025

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NOCTIVAGATION

A roving or going about in the night. Gayton.

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SCANTLET

A small pattern; a small quantity. [Obs.] Sir M. Hale.

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ANDARAC

Red orpiment. Coxe.

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PROMPTURE

Suggestion; incitement; prompting. [R.] Shak. Coleridge.

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KARN

A pile of rocks; sometimes, the solid rock. See Cairn.

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BRIDEWELL

A house of correction for the confinement of disorderlypersons; -- so called from a hospital built in 1553 near St. Bride's(or Bridget's) well, in London, which was subsequently a penalworkhouse.

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ACCEPTANCY

Acceptance. [R.]Here's a proof of gift, But here's no proof, sir, of acceptancy. Mrs.Browning.

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ELIMINATION

the act of discharging or excreting waste products or foreignsubstances through the various emunctories.

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PENSIVED

Made pensive. [R.] Shak.

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UNINCUMBERED

Free from any temporary estate or interest, or from mortgage,or other charge or debt; as, an estate unincumbered with dower.

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ANNUALLY

Yearly; year by year.

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EXECUTOR

The person appointed by a Executor de son tort Etym: [Of.,executor of his own wrong] (Law), a stranger who intermeddles withoutauthority in the distribution of the estate of a deceased person.