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02/02/2026

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GALEA

The upper lip or helmet-shaped part of a labiate flower.

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SEAMLESS

Without a seam.Christ's seamless coat, all of a piece. Jer. Taylor.

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SINKER

One who, or that which, sinks. Specifically:(a) A weight on something, as on a fish line, to sink it.(b) In knitting machines, one of the thin plates, blades, or otherdevices, that depress the loops upon or between the needles. Dividingsinker, in knitting machines, a sinker between two jack sinkers andacting alternately with them.-- Jack sinker. See under Jack, n.-- Sinker bar. (a) In knitting machines, a bar to which one set ofthe sinkers is attached. (b) In deep well boring, a heavy bar forminga connection between the lifting rope and the boring tools, above thejars.

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UNDERCHAPS

The lower chaps or jaw. Paley.

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RHEUMIDES

The class of skin disease developed by the dartrous diathesis.See under Dartrous.

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APPROACHMENT

Approach. [Archaic] Holland.

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CAL

Wolfram, an ore of tungsten. Simmonds.

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DORSAL

Pertaining to, or situated near, the back, or dorsum, of ananimal or of one of its parts; notal; tergal; neural; as, the dorsalfin of a fish; the dorsal artery of the tongue; -- opposed toventral.

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SYMMETRICAL

Having the organs or parts of one side correspponding withthose of the other; having the parts in two or more series of organsthe same in number; exhibiting a symmetry.See Symmetry, 2.

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ROWLOCK

A contrivance or arrangement serving as a fulcrum for an oar inrowing. It consists sometimes of a notch in the gunwale of a boat,sometimes of a pair of pins between which the oar rests on the edgeof the gunwale, sometimes of a single pin passing through the oar, orof a metal fork or stirrup pivoted in the gunwale and suporting theoar.

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COORDINATENESS

The state of being coördinate; equality of rank or authority.

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TRIBULATION

That which occasions distress, trouble, or vexation; severeaffliction.When tribulation or persecution ariseth because of the word, by andby he is offended. Matt. xiii. 21.In the world ye shall have tribulation. John. xvi. 33.