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1	DIPLOBLASTIC	Characterizing the ovum when it has two primary germinallayers.
2	DEFIGURE	To delineate. [Obs.]These two stones as they are here defigured. Weever.
3	LOMBARD	Of or pertaining to Lombardy, or the inhabitants of Lombardy.
4	BAHAISM	The religious tenets or practices of the Bahais.
5	FUMERELL	See Femerell.
6	ROYALET	A petty or powerless king. [R.]there were at this time two other royalets, as only kings by hisleave. Fuller.
7	TROPHIED	Adorned with trophies.The trophied arches, storied halls, invade. Pope.
8	ZEQUIN	See Sequin.
9	MILLWRIGHT	A mechanic whose occupation is to build mills, or to set uptheir machinery.
10	PHOTOGRAPHOMETER	An instrument for determining the sensibility of the platesemployed in photographic processes to luminous rays.
11	SCHEELIUM	The metal tungsten. [Obs.]
12	ALVEOLATE	Deeply pitted, like a honeycomb.
13	LIMULUS	The only existing genus of Merostomata. It includes only a fewspecies from the East Indies, and one (Limulus polyphemus) from theAtlantic coast of North America. Called also Molucca crab, king crab,horseshoe crab, and horsefoot.
14	OSMUND	A fern of the genus Osmunda, or flowering fern. The mostremarkable species is the osmund royal, or royal fern (Osmundaregalis), which grows in wet or boggy places, and has large bipinnatefronds, often with a panicle of capsules at the top. The rootstockcontains much starch, and has been used in stiffening linen.
15	POTTEEN	See Poteen.
16	UNDERRUN	To run or pass under; especially (Naut.), to pass along andunder, as a cable, for the purpose of taking it in, or of examiningit.
17	EMPLASTIC	Fit to be applied as a plaster; glutinous; adhesive; as,emplastic applications.
18	RHYTHMICS	The department of musical science which treats of the length ofsounds.
19	PLEUROPTERA	A group of Isectivora, including the colugo.
20	UNBLOODY	Not bloody. Dryden. Unbloody sacrifice. (a) A sacrifice inwhich no victim is slain. (b) (R. C. Ch.) The Mass.
21	CINCINNUS	A form of monochasium in which the lateral branches arisealternately on opposite sides of the false axis; -- called alsoscorpioid cyme. --Cin*cin"nal (#), a.
22	INDOCILITY	The quality or state of being indocile; dullness of intellect;unteachableness; intractableness.The stiffness and indocility of the Pharisees. W. Montagu.
23	TELEOCEPHIAL	An extensive order of bony fishes including most of the commonmarket species, as bass, salmon, cod, perch, etc.
24	CANEBRAKE	A thicket of canes. Ellicott.
25	QUININIC	Pertaining to, or designating, a nitrogenous acid obtained as ayellow crystalline substance by the oxidation of quinine.
26	RICINIC	Pertaining to, or derived from, castor oil; formerly,designating an acid now called ricinoleic acid.
27	TELLURAL	Of or pertaining to the earth. [R.]
28	OTHERNESS	The quality or state of being other or different; alterity;oppositeness.
29	FASCICLE	A small bundle or collection; a compact cluster; as, a fascicleof fibers; a fascicle of flowers or roots.
30	REENJOYMENT	Renewed enjoiment.
31	LONGIROSTER	One of the Longirostres.
32	RHAPSODIZE	To utter as a rhapsody, or in the manner of a rhapsody Sterne.
33	WATER VIOLET	See under Violet.
34	TRUNCHEONED	Having a truncheon.
35	UNDERWENT	imp. of Undergo.
36	APITPAT	With quick beating or palpitation; pitapat. Congreve.
37	BRISKET	That part of the breast of an animal which extends from thefore legs back beneath the ribs; also applied to the fore part of ahorse, from the shoulders to the bottom of the chest.
38	KEPHALIN	One of a group of nitrogenous phosphorized principles, supposedby Thudichum to exist in brain tissue.
39	METELY	According to measure or proportion; proportionable;proportionate. [Obs.]
40	JOHNSON GRASS	A tall perennial grass (Sorghum Halepense), valuable in theSouthern and Western States for pasture and hay. The rootstocks arelarge and juicy and are eagerly sought by swine. Called also Cubagrass, Means grass, Evergreen millet, and Arabian millet.
41	MOP	A made-up face; a grimace. "What mops and mowes it makes!"Beau. & Fl.
42	SYMPOSIAC	Of or pertaining to compotations and merrymaking; happeningwhere company is drinking together; as, symposiac meetings.Symposiac disputations amongst my acquaintance. Arbuthnot.
43	ULVA	A genus of thin papery bright green seaweeds including thekinds called sea lettuce.
44	-ANA	A suffix to names of persons or places, used to denote acollection of notable sayings, literary gossip, anecdotes, etc. Thus,Scaligerana is a book containing the sayings of Scaliger, Johnsonianaof Johnson, etc.
45	PHARISEAN	Following the practice of Pharisees; Pharisaic. [Obs.]"Pharisean disciples." Milton.
46	PUTRIDNESS	Putridity. Floyer.
47	TOUSEL	Same as Tousle. [Colloq.]
48	TETRAGON	A plane figure having four sides and angles; a quadrangle, as asquare, a rhombus, etc.
49	HARELD	The long-tailed duck. See Old Squaw.
50	PYCNOSTYLE	See under Intercolumniation. -n.
51	BOLE	The trunk or stem of a tree, or that which is like it.Enormous elm-tree boles did stoop and lean. Tennyson.
52	BASISOLUTE	Prolonged at the base, as certain leaves.
53	HISTORIOGRAPHY	The art of employment of an historiographer.
54	CURSORILY	In a running or hasty manner; carelessly.
55	GLOSSARIST	A writer of glosses or of a glossary; a commentator; ascholiast. Tyrwhitt.
56	APOTACTITE	One of a sect of ancient Christians, who, in supposed imitationof the first believers, renounced all their possessions.
57	FRITHY	Woody. [Obs.] Skelton.
58	ZECHIN	See Sequin.
59	BESTAR	To sprinkle with, or as with, stars; to decorate with, or aswith, stars; to bestud. "Bestarred with anemones." W. Black.
60	CARICATURIST	One who caricatures.
61	CHAMAL	The Angora goat. See Angora goat, under Angora.
62	OPINIATED	Opinionated. [Obs.]
63	PELICOSAURIA	A suborder of Theromorpha, including terrestrial reptiles fromthe Permian formation.
64	PICKERY	Petty theft. [Scot.] Holinshed.
65	DOUR	Hard; inflexible; obstinate; sour in aspect; hardy; bold.[Scot.]A dour wife, a sour old carlin. C. Reade.
66	AGERATUM	A genus of plants, one species of which (A. Mexicanum) haslavender-blue flowers in dense clusters.
67	BEDSTAFF	"A wooden pin stuck anciently on the sides of the bedstead, tohold the clothes from slipping on either side." Johnson.Hostess, accommodate us with a bedstaff. B. Jonson.Say there is no virtue in cudgels and bedstaves. Brome.
68	GLADFUL	Full of gladness; joyful; glad. [R.] -- Glad"ful*ness, n. [R.]Spenser.It followed him with gladful glee. Spenser.
69	INDOXYL	A nitrogenous substance, C8H7NO, isomeric with oxindol,obtained as an oily liquid.
70	NOTHINGISM	Nihility; nothingness. [R.]
71	GNARL	To growl; to snarl.And wolves are gnarling who shall gnaw thee first. Shak.
72	ANGIOSPERMATOUS	Same as Angiospermous.
73	INCUNABULUM	A work of art or of human industry, of an early epoch;especially, a book printed before A. D. 1500.
74	MORIGERATION	Obsequiousness; obedience. [Obs.] Evelyn.
75	INCOMPARED	Peerless; incomparable. [Obs.] Spenser.
76	OVERSWAY	To bear sway over.
77	SUBSECUTE	To follow closely, or so as to overtake; to pursue. [Obs.]To follow and detain him, if by any possibility he could besubsecuted and overtaken. E. Hall.
78	BACILLUS	A variety of bacterium; a microscopic, rod-shaped vegetableorganism.
79	ETHEREALITY	The state of being ethereal; etherealness.Something of that ethereality of thought and manner which belonged toWordsworth's earlier lyrics. J. C. Shairp.
80	REJOICER	One who rejoices.
81	SINGULT	A sigh or sobbing; also, a hiccough. [Obs.] Spenser. W. Browne.
82	MELAINOTYPE	See Melanotype.
83	STOPPED	Made by complete closure of the mouth organs; shut; -- said ofcertain consonants (p, b, t, d, etc.). H. Sweet.
84	WESTERING	Passing to the west.Toward heaven's descent had sloped his westering wheel. Milton.
85	CHINAMAN	A native of China; a Chinese.
86	FORESKIN	The fold of skin which covers the glans of the penis; theprepuce.
87	CEPHALOTOME	An instrument for cutting into the fetal head, to facilitatedelivery.
88	OVERLOOKER	One who overlooks.
89	CARBINOL	Methyl alcohol, CH3OH; -- also, by extension, any one in thehomologous series of paraffine alcohols of which methyl alcohol isthe type.
90	PROFESSED	Openly declared, avowed, acknowledged, or claimed; as, aprofessed foe; a professed tyrant; a professed Christian. Theprofessed (R. C. Ch.) , a certain class among the Jesuits bound by aspecial vow. See the note under Jesuit.
91	COPPER-NOSE	A red nose. Shak.
92	ESOTERICISM	Esoteric doctrine or principles.
93	APLACENTAL	Belonging to the Aplacentata; without placenta.
94	JURAMENTUM	An oath.
95	LITHARGYRUM	Crystallized litharge, obtained by fusion in the form of fineyellow scales.
96	LUCIFERIAN	One of the followers of Lucifer, bishop of Cagliari, in thefourth century, who separated from the orthodox churches because theywould not go as far as he did in opposing the Arians.
97	VERDINE	A commercial name for green aniline dye.
98	ARUNDIFEROUS	Producing reeds or canes.
99	EXCEEDINGLY	To a very great degree; beyond what is usual; surpassingly. Itsignifies more than very.
100	STAGNANTLY	In a stagnant manner.

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