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24/10/2026

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THO

The. [Obs.] Spenser.

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APPROACHABILITY

The quality of being approachable; approachableness.

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HEMSTITCH

To ornament at the head of a broad hem by drawing out a fewparallel threads, and fastening the cross threads in successive smallclusters; as, to hemstitch a handkerchief.

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CIRCUMMURE

To encompass with a wall. Shak.

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RIVETER

One who rivets.

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SERMONIZER

One who sermonizes.

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ASTARBOARD

Over to the starboard side; -- said of the tiller.

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ISOCYANURIC

Designating, or pertaining to, an acid isomeric with cyanuricacid, and called also fulminuric acid. See under Fulminuric.

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MAGNETICALLY

By or as by, magnetism.

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BLOWZE

A ruddy, fat-faced woman; a wench. [Obs.] Shak.

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RHAPHIDES

Minute transparent, often needlle-shaped, crystals found in thetissues of plants. [Written also raphides.]

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SEWELLEL

A peculiar gregarious burrowing rodent (Haplodon rufus), nativeof the coast region of the Northwestern United States. It somewhatresembles a muskrat or marmot, but has only a rudimentary tail. Itshead is broad, its eyes are small and its fur is brownish above, graybeneath. It constitutes the family Haplodontidæ. Called also boomer,showt'l, and mountain beaver.