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1. † anthropoˈmorphitize, v. View full entry 1810
...prop. To make, or act as, an anthropomorphite; improp. = anthropomorphize...
2. aquiculture, n. View full entry 1867
...Culture of the natural produce of water; fish-breeding as a branch of industry. Cf. aquaculture...
3. calcariferous, adj. View full entry 1853
...‘Bearing spurs’ (New Sydenham Soc. Lexicon)....
4. cinerescent, adj. View full entry 1816
...Inclining to ash-colour; grayish....
5. diamorphosis, n. View full entry 1861
...‘The building up of a body to its proper form’ (New Sydenham Soc. Lexicon1883)....
6. kudos, n. View full entry 1831
...Glory, fame, renown....
7. lirella, n. View full entry 1839
...The narrow ‘shield’ or apothecium, with a furrow along the middle, found in some lichens....
8. mujahid, n. and adj. View full entry 1885
...A person (esp. a guerrilla) who strives or fights in support of Islam; spec. an Islamic fundamentalist guerrilla. Also (in quot. 1921) irreg.: = mujahidin...
9. nowheres, adv., pron., and n. View full entry 1847
...In or at no place; to no place. Cf. nowhere...
10. nuffin, n. View full entry 1837
...= nothing Freq. (nonstandard) as part of a multiple negative construction....
11. of, v. View full entry 1813
...= have, used in the infinitive as the auxiliary of the perfect tense (esp. in conjunction with modal verbs). Freq. in representations of nonstandard speech....
12. po', adj. and n.6 View full entry 1866
...= poor (in various senses)....
13. ruther, adv. View full entry 1809
...= rather...
14. sumpit, n. View full entry 1831
...= sumpitan; also erron. one of the darts blown from the sumpitan....
15. synizesis, n. View full entry 1817
...Grammar and Prosody. Fusion of two syllables into one by the coalescence of two adjacent vowels (or of a vowel and a diphthong) without the formation of a recognized...
16. taenii-, comb. form View full entry 1844
...combining form of Latin tænia ribbon, often contracted to tæni- (also erron.tænia-). Also (U.S.) tenii-...
17. tidal, adj. View full entry 1808
...Of, pertaining to, or affected by tides; ebbing and flowing periodically....
18. transcenˈdentally, adv. View full entry 1803
...In a transcendental manner or degree; according to a transcendental system....
