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16/07/2025

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MANUALIST

One who works wi

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KALEIDOSCOPE

An instrument invented by Sir David Brewster, which containsloose fragments of colored glass, etc., and reflecting surfaces soarranged that changes of position exhibit its contents in an endlessvariety of beautiful colors and symmetrical forms. It has been muchemployed in arts of design.Shifting like the fragments of colored glass in the kaleidoscope. G.W. Cable.

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PECULIARLY

In a peculiar manner; particulary; in a rare and strikingdegree; unusually.

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ENCRISPED

Curled. [Obs.] Skelton.

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SUPERDREADNOUGHT

See Dreadnought, above.

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DISCLOSER

One who discloses.

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BUTLERSHIP

The office of a butler.

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SCUTIFORM

Shield-shaped; scutate.

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DEPLORABLY

In a deplorable manner.

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ERBIUM

A rare metallic element associated with several other rareelements in the mineral gadolinite from Ytterby in Sweden. Symbol Er.Atomic weight 165.9. Its salts are rose-colored and givecharacteristic spectra. Its sesquioxide is called erbia.

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GUNPOWDER

A black, granular, explosive substance, consisting of anintimate mechanical mixture of niter, charcoal, and sulphur. It isused in gunnery and blasting.

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SKULLCAP

Any plant of the labiate genus Scutellaria, the calyx of whoseflower appears, when inverted, like a helmet with the visor raised.