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05/12/2025

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FLITTERN

A term applied to the bark obtained from young oak trees.McElrath.

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REPREHENDER

One who reprehends.

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ALKAZAR

See Alcazar.

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BROMELIACEOUS

Pertaining to, or resembling, a family of endogenous and mostlyepiphytic or saxicolous plants of which the genera Tillandsia andBillbergia are examples. The pineapple, though terrestrial, is alsoof this family.

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SOMNILOQUENCE

The act of talking in one's sleep; somniloquism.

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CAVIL

To raise captious and frivolous objections; to find faultwithout good reason.You do not well in obstinacy To cavil in the course of this contract.Shak.

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BLOOD-SHOTTEN

Bloodshot. [Obs.]

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ENAUNTER

Lest that. [Obs.] Spenser.

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ERE

To plow. [Obs.] See Ear, v. t. Chaucer.

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CHRISTCROSS-ROW

The alphabet; -- formerly so called, either from the crossusually set before it, or from a superstitious custom, sometimespracticed, of writing it in the form of a cross, by way of a charm.From infant conning of the Christcross-row. Wordsworth.

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VITRIFIABLE

Capable of being vitrified, or converted into glass by heat andfusion; as, flint and alkalies are vitrifiable.

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INGENERABILLTY

Incapacity of being engendered or produced. Cudworth.