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Wondrous
n.
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In a wonderful or surprising manner or degree; wonderfully.
Seraskierate
n.
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The office or authority of a seraskier.
Stay
v. i.
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To bear up under; to endure; to support; to resist successfully.
Seraskier
n.
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A general or commander of land forces in the Turkish empire; especially, the commander-in-chief of minister of war.
Serapis
n.
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An Egyptian deity, at first a symbol of the Nile, and so of fertility; later, one of the divinities of the lower world. His worship was introduced into Greece and Rome.
Worldly
adv.
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With relation to this life; in a worldly manner.
Abode
v. i.
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To be ominous.
Seraphine
n.
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A wind instrument whose sounding parts are reeds, consisting of a thin tongue of brass playing freely through a slot in a plate. It has a case, like a piano, and is played by means of a similar keybord, the bellows being worked by the foot. The melodeon is a portable variety of this instrument.
Seraphina
n.
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A seraphine.
Coupee
n.
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A motion in dancing, when one leg is a little bent, and raised from the floor, and with the other a forward motion is made.
Hold
v. t.
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To accept, as an opinion; to be the adherent of, openly or privately; to persist in, as a purpose; to maintain; to sustain.
Abode
v. t.
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To bode; to foreshow.
Wisped
imp. & p. p.
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of Wisp
Include
v. t.
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To confine within; to hold; to contain; to shut up; to inclose; as, the shell of a nut includes the kernel; a pearl is included in a shell.
Saponaceous
a.
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Resembling soap; having the qualities of soap; soapy.
Mend
v. t.
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To alter for the better; to set right; to reform; hence, to quicken; as, to mend one's manners or pace.
Prededication
n.
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A dedication made previously or beforehand.
Co-respondent
n.
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One who is called upon to answer a summons or other proceeding jointly with another.
Abed
adv.
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In bed, or on the bed.
Active
a.
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Requiring or implying action or exertion; -- opposed to sedentary or to tranquil; as, active employment or service; active scenes.
Cutwal
n.
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The chief police officer of a large city.
Estuate
v. i.
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To boil up; to swell and rage; to be agitated.
Bissextile
n.
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Leap year; every fourth year, in which a day is added to the month of February on account of the excess of the tropical year (365 d. 5 h. 48 m. 46 s.) above 365 days. But one day added every four years is equivalent to six hours each year, which is 11 m. 14 s. more than the excess of the real year. Hence, it is necessary to suppress the bissextile day at the end of every century which is not divisible by 400, while it is retained at the end of those which are divisible by 400.
Mosasaurian
n.
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One of an extinct order of reptiles, including Mosasaurus and allied genera. See Mosasauria.
Madegassy
n. & a.
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See Madecassee.
Dullness
n.
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The state of being dull; slowness; stupidity; heaviness; drowsiness; bluntness; obtuseness; dimness; want of luster; want of vividness, or of brightness.
Whinock
n.
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The small pig of a litter.
Avise
v. i.
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To consider; to reflect.
Abelmosk
n.
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An evergreen shrub (Hibiscus -- formerly Abelmoschus -- moschatus), of the East and West Indies and Northern Africa, whose musky seeds are used in perfumery and to flavor coffee; -- sometimes called musk mallow.
Portfolio
n.
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Hence: The office and functions of a minister of state or member of the cabinet; as, to receive the portfolio of war; to resign the portfolio.