One who maintains that points of the Hebrew word translatedJehovah are really the vowel points of the word Adonai. SeeJehovist.
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Adonist
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Freight
Employed in the transportation of freight; having to do withfreight; as, a freight car. Freight agent, a person employed by atransportation company to receive, forward, or deliver goods.-- Freight car. See under Car.-- Freight train, a railroad train made up of freight cars; --called in England goods train.
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Surplus
Being or constituting a surplus; more than sufficient; as,surplus revenues; surplus population; surplus words.When the price of corn falleth, men give over surplus tillage, andbreak no more ground. Carew.
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Willingly
In a willing manner; with free will; without reluctance;cheerfully. Chaucer.The condition of that people is not so much to be envied as somewould willingly represent it. Addison.
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Forestall
To obstruct or stop up, as a way; to stop the passage of onhighway; to intercept on the road, as goods on the way to market. Toforestall the market, to buy or contract for merchandise or provisionon its way to market, with the intention of selling it again at ahigher price; to dissuade persons from bringing their goods orprovisions there; or to persuade them to enhance the price whenthere. This was an offense at law in England until 1844. Burrill.
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Refection
Refreshment after hunger or fatique; a repast; a lunch.[His] feeble spirit inly felt refection. Spenser.Those Attic nights, and those refections of the gods. Curran.
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Siphonia
A former name for a euphorbiaceous genus (Hevea) of SouthAmerican trees, the principal source of caoutchouc.
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Jaculatory
Darting or throwing out suddenly; also, suddenly thrown out;uttered in short sentences; ejaculatory; as, jaculatory prayers.Smart.
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Encapsulation
The act of inclosing in a capsule; the growth of a membranearound (any part) so as to inclose it in a capsule.
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Paigle
A species of Primula, either the cowslip or the primrose.[Written also pagle, pagil, peagle, and pygil.]
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Haemapodous
Having the limbs on, or directed toward, the ventral or hemalside, as in vertebrates; -- opposed to neuropodous.
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Crined
Having the hair of a different tincture from the rest of thebody; as, a charge crined of a red tincture.
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Quica
A small South American opossum (Didelphys quica), native ofGuiana and Brazil. It feeds upon insects, small birds, and fruit.
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Malpractice
Evil practice; illegal or immoral conduct; practice contrary toestablished rules; specifically, the treatment of a case by a surgeonor physician in a manner which is contrary to accepted rules andproductive of unfavorable results. [Written also malepractice.]
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Crawford
A Crawford peach; a well-known freestone peach, wich yellowflesh, first raised by Mr. William Crawford, of New Jersey.
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Lyencephala
A group of Mammalia, including the marsupials and monotremes; -- so called because the corpus callosum is rudimentary.
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Staghound
A large and powerful hound formerly used in hunting the stag,the wolf, and other large animals. The breed is nearly extinct.
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Diluvian
Of or pertaining to a deluge, esp. to the Noachian deluge;diluvial; as, of diluvian origin. Buckland.
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Airometer
A hollow cylinder to contain air. It is closed above and openbelow, and has its open end plunged into water.
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Extra-
A Latin preposition, denoting beyond, outside of; -- often usedin composition as a prefix signifying outside of, beyond, besides, orin addition to what is denoted by the word to which it is prefixed.