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29/01/2026

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DISCOID

Having the form of a disk, as those univalve shells which havethe whorls in one plane, so as to form a disk, as the pearlynautilus. Discoid flower (Bot.), a compound flower, consisting oftubular florets only, as a tansy, lacking the rays which are seen inthe daisy and sunflower.

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WINNINISH

The land-locked variety of the common salmon. [Canada]

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GOZZARD

See Gosherd. [Prov. Eng.]

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URETHRA

The canal by which the urine is conducted from the bladder anddischarged.

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BOXHAUL

To put (a vessel) on the other tack by veering her short roundon her heel; -- so called from the circumstance of bracing the headyards abox (i. e., sharp aback, on the wind). Totten.

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CONTAINABLE

Capable of being contained or comprised. Boyle.

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NEOGRAPHY

A new method or system of writing.

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TOPS-AND-BOTTOMS

Small rolls of dough, baked, cut in halves, and then browned inan oven, -- used as food for infants.'T is said that her top-and-bottoms were gilt. Hood.

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BATISTE

Originally, cambric or lawn of fine linen; now applied also tocloth of similar texture made of cotton.

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CHEMOLYSIS

A term sometimes applied to the decomposition of organicsubstance into more simple bodies, by the use of chemical agentsalone. Thudichum.

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UNRELIGIOUS

Irreligious. Wordsworth.

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SQUAIL

To throw sticls at cocks; to throw anything about awkwardly orirregularly. [Prov. Eng.] Southey.