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10 Dec 2023
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Polander: A native or inhabitant of Poland; a Pole.
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Blindness: State or condition of being blind, literally or figuratively. Darwin. Color blindness, inability to distinguish certain color. See Daltonism.
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Evincement: The act of evincing or proving, or the state of being evinced.
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Arboretum: A place in which a collection of rare trees and shrubs is cultivated for scientific or educational purposes.
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Prolicide: The crime of destroying one's offspring, either in the womb or after birth. Bouvier.
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Photochemical: Of or pertaining to chemical action of light, or produced by it; as, the photochemical changes of the visual purple of the retina.
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Volti: Turn, that is, turn over the leaf. Volti subito Etym: [It.] (Mus.), turn over quickly.
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Pavonine: 1. (Zoöl.) Like, or pertaining to, the genus Pavo. 2. Characteristic of a peacock; resembling the tail of a peacock, as in colors; iridescent. P. Cleaveland.
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Interpubic: Between the pubic bones or cartilages; as, the interpubic disk.
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Lactobutyrometer: An instrument for determining the amount of butter fat contained in a given sample of milk.
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Isoperimetry: The science of figures having equal perimeters or boundaries.
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Thallus: A solid mass of cellular tissue, consisting of one or more layers, usually in the form of a flat stratum or expansion, but sometimes erect or pendulous, and elongated and branching, and forming the substance of the thallogens.
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Autophony: An auscultatory process, which consists in noting the tone of the observer's own voice, while he speaks, holding his head close to the patient's chest. Dunglison.
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Leontodon: A genus of liguliflorous composite plants, including the fall dandelion (L. autumnale), and formerly the true dandelion; -- called also lion's tooth.
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Fluorescent: Having the property of fluorescence.
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Carucate: A plowland; as much land as one team can plow in a year and a day; -- by some said to be about 100 acres. Burrill.
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Writative: Inclined to much writing; -- correlative to talkative. [R.] Pope.
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Panurgic: Skilled in all kinds of work. "The panurgic Diderot." J. Morley.
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Trivalve: Anything having three valves, especially a shell.
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