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15/02/2026

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CAVO-RILIEVO

Hollow relief; sculpture in relief within a sinking made forthe purpose, so no part of it projects beyond the plain surfacearound.

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AMALGAMATIVE

Characterized by amalgamation.

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ANASTALTIC

Styptic. [Obs.] Coxe.

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QUI VIVE

The challenge of a French sentinel, or patrol; -- used like theEnglish challenge: "Who comes there" To be on the qui vive, to be onguard; to be watchful and alert, like a sentinel.

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CYMOSCOPE

Any device for detecting the presence of electric waves. Theinfluence of electric waves on the resistance of a particular kind ofelectric circuit, on the magnetization of steel, on the polarizationof an electrolytic cell, or on the electric condition of a vacuum hasbeen applied in the various cymoscopes.

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NOZLE

Nozzle. [Obs.]

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RECOGNIZER

One who recognizes; a recognizor. [Written also recogniser.]

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LEONINE

Pertaining to, or characteristic of, the lion; as, a leoninelook; leonine repacity.-- Le"o*nine*ly, adv. Leonine verse, a kind of verse, in which theend of the line rhymes with the middle; -- so named from Leo, orLeoninus, a Benedictine and canon of Paris in the twelfth century,who wrote largely in this measure, though he was not the inventor.The following line is an example:Gloria factorum temere conceditur horum.

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TRIVERBIAL

Pertaining to, or designating, certain days allowed to thepretor for hearing causes, when be might speak the threecharacteristic words of his office, do, dico, addico. They werecalled dies fasti.

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COPPED

Rising to a point or head; conical; pointed; crested. Wiseman.

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TYPOGRAPHER

A printer. T. Warton.

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INSUPPRESSIBLE

That can not be suppressed or concealed; irrepressible. Young.-- In`sup*press"i*bly, adv.