A rich glazed cake, with almonds, pistachios, filberts, orother nuts; also, a rich currant cake with almonds on the top.
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Genoa cake
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Brocade
Silk stuff, woven with gold and silver threads, or ornamentedwith raised flowers, foliage, etc.; -- also applied to other stuffsthus wrought and enriched.A gala suit of faded brocade. W. Irving.
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Subsoil
The bed, or stratum, of earth which lies immediately beneaththe surface soil. Subsoil plow, a plow having a share and standardbut no moldboard. It follows in the furrow made by an ordinary plow,and loosens the soil to an additional depth without bringing it tothe surface. Knight.
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Vanadic
Pertaining to, or obtained from, vanadium; containing vanadium;specifically distinguished those compounds in which vanadium has arelatively higher valence as contrasted with the vanadious compounds;as, vanadic oxide. Vanadic acid (Chem.), an acid analogous tophosphoric acid, not known in the free state but forming a well-knownseries of salts.
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Archly
In an arch manner; with attractive slyness or roguishness;slyly; waggishly.Archly the maiden smiled. Longfellow.
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Scaramouch
A personage in the old Italian comedy (derived from Spain)characterized by great boastfulness and poltroonery; hence, a personof like characteristics; a buffoon.
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Forbiddance
The act of forbidding; prohibition; command or edict against athing. [Obs.]ow hast thou yield to transgress The strict forbiddance. Milton.
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Muzzy
Absent-minded; dazed; muddled; stupid.The whole company stared at me with a whimsical, muzzy look, like menwhose senses were a little obfuscated by beer rather then wine. W.Irving.
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Obligatory
Binding in law or conscience; imposing duty or obligation;requiring performance or forbearance of some act; -- often followedby on or upon; as, obedience is obligatory on a soldier.As long as the law is obligatory, so long our obedience is due. Jer.Taylor.
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Laminiplantar
Having the tarsus covered behind with a horny sheath continuouson both sides, as in most singing birds, except the larks.
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Quercitin
A yellow crystalline substance, occurring quite widelydistributed in the vegetable kingdom, as is apple-tree bark, horse-chestnut leaves, etc., but originally obtained by the decompositionof quercitrin. Called also meletin.
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Wood tick
Any one of several species of ticks of the genus Ixodes whoseyoung cling to bushes, but quickly fasten themselves upon the bodiesof any animal with which they come in contact. When they attachthemselves to the human body they often produce troublesome sores.The common species of the Northern United States is Ixodesunipunctata.
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Lalo
The powdered leaves of the baobab tree, used by the Africans tomix in their soup, as the southern negroes use powdered sassafras.Cf. Couscous.
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Goliard
A buffoon in the Middle Ages, who attended rich men's tables tomake sport for the guests by ribald stories and songs.
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Vernier
A short scale made to slide along the divisions of a graduatedinstrument, as the limb of a sextant, or the scale of a barometer,for indicating parts of divisions. It is so graduated that a certainconvenient number of its divisions are just equal to a certainnumber, either one less or one more, of the divisions of theinstrument, so that parts of a division are determined by observingwhat line on the vernier coincides with a line on the instrument.Vernier calipers, Vernier gauge, a gauge with a graduated bar and asliding jaw bearing a vernier, used for accurate measurements.-- Vernier compass, a surveyors
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Lissencephala
A general name for all those placental mammals that have abrain with few or no cerebral convolutions, as Rodentia, Insectivora,etc.
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Mestizo
The offspring of an Indian or a negro and a European or personof European stock. [Spanish America] Mestizo wool, wool imported fromSouth America, and produced by mixed breeds of sheep.
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Obole
A weight of twelve grains; or, according to some, of tengrains, or half a scruple. [Written also obol.]
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Uvitic
Pertaining to, or designating, an acid, CH3C6H3(CO2H)2,obtained as a white crystalline substance by the partial oxidation ofmesitylene; -- called also mesitic acid.
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Vergency
The reciprocal of the focal distance of a lens, used as measureof the divergence or convergence of a pencil of rays. [R.] HumphreyLloyd.