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30/01/2026
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DISPLOSION
DISPLOSION
Explosion.The vast displosion dissipates the clouds. Young.
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UNREIN
UNREIN
To loosen the reins of; to remove restraint from. Addison.
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TORMENTIL
TORMENTIL
A rosaceous herb (Potentilla Tormentilla), the root of which isused as a powerful astringent, and for alleviating gripes, ortormina, in diarrhea.
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DISSOLVATIVE
DISSOLVATIVE
Having the power to dissolve anything; solvent. [Obs.]Frampton.
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FATTY
FATTY
Containing fat, or having the qualities of fat; greasy; gross;as, a fatty substance. Fatty acid (Chem.), any one of the paraffinseries of monocarbonic acids, as formic acid, acetic, etc.; -- socalled because the higher members, as stearic and palmitic acids,occur in the natural fats, and are themselves fatlike substances.-- Fatty clays. See under Clay.-- Fatty degeneration (Med.), a diseased condition, in which the oilglobules, naturally present in certain organs, are so multiplied asgradually to destroy and replace the efficient parts of these organs.-- Fatty heart, Fatty liver, etc. (Med.), a heart, liver, etc.,which have been the subjects of fatty degeneration or infiltration.-- Fatty infiltration (Med.), a condition in which there is anexcessive accumulation of fat in an organ, without destruction of anyessential parts of the latter.-- Fatty tumor (Med.), a tumor consisting of fatty or adiposetissue; lipoma.
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RASHFUL
RASHFUL
Rash; hasty; precipitate. [Obs.]
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PANDEMIC
PANDEMIC
Affecting a whole people or a number of countries; everywhereepidemic.-- n.
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SESTET
SESTET
A piece of music composed for six voices or six instruments; asextet; -- called also sestuor. [Written also sestett, sestette.]
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ARNICINE
ARNICINE
An alkaloid obtained from the arnica plant.
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HURRICANO
HURRICANO
A waterspout; a hurricane. [Obs.] Drayton. "You cataracts andhurricanoes, spout." Shak.
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SWAGBELLY
SWAGBELLY
Any large tumor developed in the abdomen, and neitherfluctuating nor sonorous. Dunglison.
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PERCARBURETED
PERCARBURETED
Combined with a relatively large amount of carbon.