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KAPUT |
Had it |
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JADED |
Had it |
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INITIATING |
Starting off in it, I had giant problems |
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TREE |
It had a certain weakness for hushaby baby |
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PATENT |
It’s obvious that the patient had lost an eye |
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QUARREL |
An arrow for a crossbow; -- so named because it commonly
had a square head. |
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SIGMA |
The Greek letter /, /, or / (English S, or s). It originally
had the form of the English C. |
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PHOCODONTIA |
A group of extinct carnivorous whales. Their teeth
had compressed and serrated crowns. It includes Squalodon and allied
genera. |
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SURBED |
To set edgewise, as a stone; that is, to set it in a
position different from that which it had in the quarry. |
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XIPHODON |
An extinct genus of artiodactylous mammals found in the
European Tertiary formations. It had slender legs, didactylous feet,
and small canine teeth. |
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SANHEDRIM |
The great council of the Jews, which consisted of
seventy members, to whom the high priest was added. It had jurisdiction
of religious matters. |
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TRAVERSE |
Something that thwarts, crosses, or obstructs; a cross
accident; as, he would have succeeded, had it not been for unlucky
traverses not under his control. |
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GLYPTODON |
An extinct South American quaternary mammal, allied to
the armadillos. It was as large as an ox, was covered with tessellated
scales, and had fluted teeth. |
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PARTHENON |
A celebrated marble temple of Athene, on the Acropolis
at Athens. It was of the pure Doric order, and has had an important
influence on art. |
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DALTONISM |
Inability to perceive or distinguish certain colors,
esp. red; color blindness. It has various forms and degrees. So called
from the chemist Dalton, who had this infirmity. |
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AUGEAN |
Of or pertaining to Augeus, king of Elis, whose stable
contained 3000 oxen, and had not been cleaned for 30 years. Hercules
cleansed it in a single day. |
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SPIDER |
An iron pan with a long handle, used as a kitchen utensil
in frying food. Originally, it had long legs, and was used over coals
on the hearth. |
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SERBONIAN |
Relating to the lake of Serbonis in Egypt, which by
reason of the sand blowing into it had a deceptive appearance of being
solid land, but was a bog. |
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PROGRAMMA |
Any law, which, after it had passed the Athenian senate,
was fixed on a tablet for public inspection previously to its being
proposed to the general assembly of the people. |
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VACATE |
To make vacant; to leave empty; to cease from filling or
occupying; as, it was resolved by Parliament that James had vacated the
throne of England; the tenant vacated the house. |
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SKILLING |
A money od account in Sweden, Norwey, Denmark, and North
Germany, and also a coin. It had various values, from three fourths of
a cent in Norway to more than two cents in Lubeck. |
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METEMPSYCHOSIS |
The passage of the soul, as an immortal essence, at
the death of the animal body it had inhabited, into another living
body, whether of a brute or a human being; transmigration of souls. |
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DODO |
A large, extinct bird (Didus ineptus), formerly inhabiting
the Island of Mauritius. It had short, half-fledged wings, like those
of the ostrich... |
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TUMBLER |
A drinking glass, without a foot or stem; -- so called
because originally it had a pointed or convex base, and could not be
set down with any l... |
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DIVULGE |
... public; to tell (a secret) so that it may become generally known; to
disclose; -- said of that which had been confided as a secret, or had
be... |