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17/11/2025

#65834

FLOATING

Floating threads. See Floating threads, above.

#8502

SIKE

A gutter; a stream, such as is usually dry in summer. [Prov.Eng. & Scot.]

#58831

PRECIPITIOUS

Precipitous. [Obs.] -- Prec`i*pi"tious*ly, adv. [Obs.] Dr. H.More.

#4406

ALLA BREVE

With one breve, or four minims, to measure, and sung fasterlike four crotchets; in quick common time; -- indicated in the timesignature by

#76685

GALBE

The general outward form of any solid object, as of a column ora vase.

#62977

TINCT

Tined; tinged. [Archaic] Spenser.

#53236

BERING SEA CONTROVERSY

A controversy (1886 --93) between Great Britain and the UnitedStates as to the right of Canadians not licensed by the United Statesto carry on seal fishing in the Bering Sea, over which the UnitedStates claimed jurisdiction as a mare clausum. A court ofarbitration, meeting in Paris in 1893, decided against the claim ofthe United States, but established regulations for the preservationof the fur seal.

#46973

CURTANA

The pointless sword carried before English monarchs at theircoronation, and emblematically considered as the sword of mercy; --also called the sword of Edward the Confessor.

#13364

CONCUSSIVE

Having the power or quality of shaking or agitating. Johnson.

#66503

SAFEGUARD

To guard; to protect. Shak.

#71280

FLOS-FERRI

A variety of aragonite, occuring in delicate white coralloidalforms; -- common in beds of iron ore.

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PREPOSITOR

A scholar appointed to inspect other scholars; a monitor. Todd.