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05/08/2026

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ELABORATIVE

Serving or tending to elaborate; constructing with labor andminute attention to details. Elaborative faculty (Metaph.), theintellectual power of discerning relations and of viewing objects bymeans of, or in, relations; the discursive faculty; thought.

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WAUL

To cry as a cat; to squall; to wail. [Written also wawl.]The helpless infant, coming wauling and crying into the world. Sir W.Scott.

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OMNIUM

The aggregate value of the different stocks in which a loan togovernment is now usually funded. M'Culloch.

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MILLEFIORE GLASS

Slender rods or tubes of colored glass fused together andembedded in clear glass; -- used for paperweights and other smallarticles.

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HAEMATOSAC

A vascular sac connected, beneath the brain, in many fishes,with the infundibulum.

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CACHOU

A silvered aromatic pill, used to correct the odor of thebreath.

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REINHABIT

To inhabit again. Mede.

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MERCHANTLY

Merchantlike; suitable to the character or business of amerchant. [Obs.] Gauden.

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CARRIBOO

See Caribou.

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COINHERE

To inhere or exist together, as in one substance. Sir W.Hamilton.

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PIGHTEL

A small inclosure. [Written also pightle.] [Obs. or Prov. Eng.]

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ANTECEDENTLY

Previously; before in time; at a time preceding; as,antecedently to conversion. Barrow.