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29/04/2026

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MOMENTAL

Of or pertaining to moment or momentum.

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QUADRUPLANE

An aëroplane with four superposed main supporting surfaces.

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MORTISE

A cavity cut into a piece of timber, or other material, toreceive something (as the end of another piece) made to fit it, andcalled a tenon. Mortise and tenon (Carp.), made with a mortise andtenon; joined or united by means of a mortise and tenon; -- usedadjectively.-- Mortise joint, a joint made by a mortise and tenon.-- Mortise lock. See under Lock.-- Mortise wheel, a cast-iron wheel, with wooden clogs inserted inmortises on its face or edge; -- also called mortise gear, and coregear.

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SCHIZO-

A combining form denoting division or cleavage; as,schizogenesis, reproduction by fission or cell division.

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BOATWOMAN

A woman who manages a boat.

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DEFLEXION

See Deflection.

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CONSISTORY

The spiritual court of a diocesan bishop held before hischancellor or commissioner in his cathedral church or elsewhere.Hook.

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NUGIFY

To render trifling or futile; to make silly. [R.] Coleridge.

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ERATIVE

Pertaining to the Muse Erato who presided over amatory poetry.Stormonth.

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ACCOMMODATELY

Suitably; fitly. [R.]

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NIPPITATE

Peculiary strong and good; -- said of ale or liquor. [Old Cant]'T will make a cup of wine taste nippitate. Chapman.

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DIATONIC

Pertaining to the scale of eight tones, the eighth of which isthe octave of the first. Diatonic scale (Mus.), a scale consisting ofeight sounds with seven intervals, of which two are semitones andfive are whole tones; a modern major or minor scale, as distinguishedfrom the chromatic scale.