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17/05/2026

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DARE

To have adequate or sufficient courage for any purpose; to bebold or venturesome; not to be afraid; to venture.I dare do all that may become a man; Who dares do more is none. Shak.Why then did not the ministers use their new law Bacause they durstnot, because they could not. Macaulay.Who dared to sully her sweet love with suspicion. Thackeray.The tie of party was stronger than the tie of blood, because apartisan was more ready to dare without asking why. Jowett (Thu

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SIDE SLIP

See Skid, below.

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INSENSIBLY

In a manner not to be felt or perceived; imperceptibly;gradually.The hills rise insensibly. Addison.

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REMONTOIR

See under Escapement.

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ENCAMP

To form and occupy a camp; to prepare and settle in temporaryhabitations, as tents or huts; to halt on a march, pitch tents, orform huts, and remain for the night or for a longer time, as an armyor a company traveling.The host of the Philistines encamped in the valley of Rephaim. 1Chron. xi. 15.

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GEASON

Rare; wonderful. [Obs.] Spenser.

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SALAMANDRINA

A suborder of Urodela, comprising salamanders.

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EPISPORE

The thickish outer coat of certain spores.

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SESQUIOXIDE

An oxide containing three atoms of oxygen with two atoms (orradicals) of some other substance; thus, alumina, Al2O3 is asesquioxide.

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LORIOT

The golden oriole of Europe. See Oriole.

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RECESSIONAL

Of or pertaining to recession or withdrawal. Recessional hymn,a hymn sung in a procession returning from the choir to the robingroom.

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PANIDIOMORPHIC

Having a completely idiomorphic structure; -- said of certainrocks.