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06/12/2024

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UNDERSHRIEVALTY

The office or position of an undersheriff.

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MEDITATIVE

Disposed to meditate, or to meditation; as, a meditative man; ameditative mood.-- Med"i*ta*tive*ly, adv.-- Med"i*ta*tive*ness, n.

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SHIELD

In lichens, a Hardened cup or disk surrounded by a rim andcontaining the fructification, or asci.

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EVOLATION

A flying out or up. [Obs.] Bp. Hall.

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TESTUDINATA

An order of reptiles which includes the turtles and tortoises.The body is covered by a shell consisting of an upper or dorsalshell, called the carapace, and a lower or ventral shell, called theplastron, each of which consists of several plates.

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BUTTER

One who, or that which, butts.

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PATHMAKER

One who, or that which, makes a way or path.

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AGE

To grow aged; to become old; to show marks of age; as, he grewfat as he aged.They live one hundred and thirty years, and never age for all that.Holland.I am aging; that is, I have a whitish, or rather a light-colored,hair here and there. Landor.

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RECIPE

A formulary or prescription for making some combination,mixture, or preparation of materials; a receipt; especially, aprescription for medicine.

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ARSENICAL

Of or pertaining to, or containing, arsenic; as, arsenicalvapor; arsenical wall papers. Arsenical silver, an ore of silvercontaining arsenic.

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TROPIST

One who deals in tropes; specifically, one who avoids theliteral sense of the language of Scripture by explaining it as meretropes and figures of speech.

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ENCAUSTIC

Prepared by means of heat; burned in. Encaustic painting (FineArts), painting by means of wax with which the colors are combined,and which is afterwards fused with hot irons, thus fixing the colors.-- Encaustic tile (Fine Arts), an earthenware tile which has adecorative pattern and is not wholly of one color.