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16/07/2026

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SUFFUMIGE

A medical fume. [Obs.] Harvey.

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BEAM TREE

A tree (Pyrus aria) related to the apple.

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SPOONWORM

A gephyrean worm of the genus Thalassema, having a spoonlikeprobiscis.

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MAULING

A severe beating with a stick, cudgel, or the fist.

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VERILOQUENT

Speaking truth; truthful. [Obs.]

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WORKING

a & n. from Work.The word must cousin be to the working. Chaucer.Working beam. See Beam, n. 10.-- Working class, the class of people who are engaged in manuallabor, or are dependent upon it for support; laborers; operatives; --chiefly used in the plural.-- Working day. See under Day, n.-- Working drawing, a drawing, as of the whole or part of astructure, machine, etc., made to a scale, and intended to befollowed by the workmen. Working drawings are either general ordetail drawings.-- Working house, a house where work is performed; a workhouse.-- Working point (Mach.), that part of a machine at which the effectrequired; the point where the useful work is done.

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NEURAL

relating to the nerves or nervous system; taining to, situatedin the region of, or on the side with, the neural, or cerebro-spinal,axis; -- opposed to hemal. As applied to vertebrates, neural is thesame as dorsal; as applied to invertebrates it is usually the same asventral. Cf. Hemal. Neural arch (Anat.), the cartilaginous or bonyarch on the dorsal side of the centrum of the vertebra in a segmentof the spinal skeleton, usually inclosing a segment of the spinalcord.

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PENTATEUCH

The first five books of the Old Testament, collectively; --called also the Law of Moses, Book of the Law of Moses, etc.

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LYME GRASS

A coarse perennial grass of several species of Elymus, esp. E.Canadensis, and the European E. arenarius.

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SILVAN

Of or pertaining to woods; composed of woods or groves; woody.[Written also sylvan.]Betwixt two rows of rocks, a silvan scene Appears above, and grovesforever green. Dryden.

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GUBERNATORIAL

Pertaining to a governor, or to government.

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BREVET

A commission giving an officer higher rank than that for whichhe receives pay; an honorary promotion of an officer.