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18/12/2025

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PHOTOHELIOGRAPH

A modified kind of telescope adapted to taking photographs ofthe sun.

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SUBINDEX

A number or mark placed opposite the lower part of a letter orsymbol to distinguish the symbol; thus, a0, b1, c2, xn, have 0, 1, 2,and n as subindices.

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VISCERAL

Of or pertaining to the viscera; splanchnic.

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REDISSEIZIN

A disseizin by one who once before was adjudged to havedassezed the same person of the same lands, etc.; also, a writ whichlay in such a case. Blackstone.

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TAPLINGS

The strong double leathers by which the two parts of a flailare united. Halliwell.

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LABIPALPUS

One of the labial palpi of an insect. See Illust. under Labium.

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OVERWASTED

Wasted or worn out; [Obs.] Drayton.

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PIERIAN

Of or pertaining to Pierides or Muses.Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring. Pope.

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CUP-GALL

A kind of oak-leaf gall. See Gall.

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PARACMASTIC

Gradually decreasing; past the acme, or crisis, as a distemper.Dunglison.

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BROTHELRY

Lewdness; obscenity; a brothel. B. Jonson.

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ENTHRONE

To induct, as a bishop, into the powers and privileges of avacant see.