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1. acquiescement, n. View full entry 1721
...= acquiescence...
2. acrost, prep. and adv. View full entry 1759
...= across...
3. ahind, prep. and adv. View full entry 1753
...= behind (in various senses)....
4. evolute, n. and adj. View full entry 1704
...Geom....
5. fearsome, adj. View full entry 1768
...Fear-inspiring; frightful, dreadful....
6. incondensable, adj. View full entry 1736
...That cannot be condensed; incapable of being made more dense or compact; spec. incapable of being reduced to the liquid or solid condition....
7. indusium, n. View full entry 1706
...Anat....
8. † kneck, n. View full entry 1706
...Obs. or erron. var. of kink...
9. nohow, adv. and adj. View full entry 1775
...By no course of action, method, or agency; in no way, by no means, not at all....
10. potwalloper, n. View full entry 1744
...= potwaller Now hist....
11. protruberance, n. View full entry 1746
...= protuberance1a....
12. rejectamenta, n. View full entry 1791
...Seaweed, debris, etc., washed up by the sea or by tides or floodwaters....
13. somn-, comb. form View full entry 1794-6
...combining form of Latin somnus, used in words based on Latin ambulāre to walk; the oldest of these in English use are somnambulation, somnambulism,...
14. † ˈstudify, v. View full entry 1775
...intr. To study. (illiterate.)...
15. ˈsynchronously, adv. View full entry 1793
...At the same time; simultaneously; contemporaneously....
16. tontine, n. and adj. View full entry 1765
...A financial scheme by which the subscribers to a loan or common fund receive each an annuity during his life, which increases as their number is diminished by death, till the last...
17. vomiˈtorium, n. View full entry 1754
...A passage or opening in an ancient amphitheatre or theatre, leading to or from the seats. Usu. pl....
