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22/01/2026

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GIBE

To cast reproaches and sneering expressions; to rail; to uttertaunting, sarcastic words; to flout; to fleer; to scoff.Fleer and gibe, and laugh and flout. Swift.

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ASSERTIVE

Positive; affirming confidently; affirmative; peremptory.In a confident and assertive form. Glanvill.As*sert"ive*ly, adv.-- As*sert"ive*ness, n.

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MARTIAL

Pertaining to, or containing, iron; chalybeate; as, martialpreparations. [Archaic] Martial flowers (Med.), a reddish crystallinesalt of iron; the ammonio-chloride of iron. [Obs.] -- Martial law,the law administered by the military power of a government when ithas superseded the civil authority in time of war, or when the civilauthorities are unable to enforce the laws. It is distinguished frommilitary law, the latter being the code of rules for the regulationof the army and navy alone, either in peace or in war.

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GLOSSARIAL

Of or pertaining to glosses or to a glossary; containing aglossary.

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HAUTBOYIST

A player on the hautboy.

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PEG

To score with a peg, as points in the game; as, she peggedtwelwe points. [Colloq.]

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PUPPETRY

Action or appearance resembling that of a puppet, or puppetshow; hence, mere form or show; affectation.Puppetry of the English laws of divorce. Chambers.

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MULTIVALENCE

Quality, state, or degree, of a multivalent element, atom, orradical.

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SUSTAINMENT

The act of sustaining; maintenance; support. Milton. Lowell.

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ABSORPTIVE

Having power, capacity, or tendency to absorb or imbibe. E.Darwin.

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GREW

imp. of Grow.

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ZYMOTIC

Designating, or pertaining to, a certain class of diseases. SeeZymotic disease, below. Zymotic disease (Med.), any epidemic,endemic, contagious, or sporadic affection which is produced by somemorbific principle or organism acting on the system like a ferment.