An irregular and arbitrary imposition or tax leved on thepeople of a town or country.These sums, . . . and the forced contributions paid by lucklesspeasants, enabled him to keep his straggling troops together. Motley.
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Deprecatory
Serving to deprecate; tending to remove or avert evil byprayer; apologetic.Humble and deprecatory letters. Bacon.
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Sycoceryl
A radical, of the aromatic series, regarded as an essentialingredient of certain compounds found in the waxy resin of anAustralian species of fig.
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February
The second month in the year, said to have been introduced intothe Roman calendar by Numa. In common years this month containstwenty-eight days; in the bissextile, or leap year, it has twenty-nine days.
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Clamor
To utter loud sounds or outcries; to vociferate; to complain;to make importunate demands.The obscure bird Clamored the livelong night. Shak.
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Paraphrase
A restatement of a text, passage, or work, expressing themeaning of the original in another form, generally for the sake ofits clearer and fuller exposition; a setting forth the significationof a text in other and ampler terms; a free translation or rendering;-- opposed to metaphrase.In paraphrase, or translation with latitude, the author's words arenot so strictly followed as his sense. Dryden.Excellent paraphrases of the Psalms of David. I. Disraeli.His sermons a living paraphrase upon his practice. Sowth.The Targums are also called the Chaldaic or Aramaic Paraphrases.Shipley.
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Philopena
A present or gift which is made as a forfeit in a social gamethat is played in various ways; also, the game itself. [Written alsofillipeen and phillippine.]
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Livelihood
Subsistence or living, as dependent on some means of support;support of life; maintenance.The opportunities of gaining an honest livelihood. Addison.It is their profession and livelihood to get their living bypractices for which they deserve to forfeit their lives. South.
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Circumvention
The act of prevailing over another by arts, address, or fraud;deception; fraud; imposture; delusion.A school in which he learns sly circumvention. Cowper.
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Ruminantia
A division of Artiodactyla having four stomachs. This divisionincludes the camels, deer, antelopes, goats, sheep, neat cattle, andallies.
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Olefine
Olefiant gas, or ethylene; hence, by extension, any one of theseries of unsaturated hydrocarbons of which ethylene is a type. SeeEthylene.
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Emplecton
A kind of masonry in which the outer faces of the wall areashlar, the space between being filled with broken stone and mortar.Cross layers of stone are interlaid as binders. [R.] Weale.
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Saltimbanco
A mountebank; a quack. [Obs.] [Written also santibanco.]Saltimbancos, quacksalvers, and charlatans. Sir T. browne.
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Scriptory
Of or pertaining to writing; expressed in writing; used inwriting; as, scriptory wills; a scriptory reed. [R.] Swift.
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Foxglove
Any plant of the genus Digitalis. The common English foxglove(Digitalis purpurea) is a handsome perennial or biennial plant, whoseleaves are used as a powerful medicine, both as a sedative anddiuretic. See Digitalis.Pan through the pastures oftentimes hath run To pluck the speckledfoxgloves from their stem. W. Browne.
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Erlking
A personification, in German and Scandinavian mythology, of aspirit natural power supposed to work mischief and ruin, esp. tochildren.
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Disdain
To be filled with scorn; to feel contemptuous anger; to behaughty.And when the chief priests and scribes saw the marvels that he did .. . they disdained. Genevan Testament (Matt. xxi. 15).
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Quercitannic
Pertaining to, or designating, a tannic acid found in oak barkand extracted as a yellowish brown amorphous substance.
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Scribbling
The act or process of carding coarsely. Scribbing machine, themachine used for the first carding of wool or other fiber; -- calledalso scribbler.
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Thermoscope
An instrument for indicating changes of temperature withoutindicating the degree of heat by which it is affected; especially, aninstrument contrived by Count Rumford which, as modified by ProfessorLeslie, was afterward called the differential thermometer.