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Incontinently :: Incontinently (adv.) Immediately; at once; forthwith.

Trochantine :: Trochantine (n.) The second joint of the leg of an insect, -- often united with the coxa..

Scallop :: Scallop (n.) Any one of numerous species of marine bivalve mollusks of the genus Pecten and allied genera of the family Pectinidae. The shell is usually radially ribbed, and the edge is therefore often undulated in a characteristic manner. The large adductor muscle of some the species is much used as food. One species (Vola Jacobaeus) occurs on the coast of Palestine, and its shell was formerly worn by pilgrims as a mark that they had been to the Holy Land. Called also fan shell. See Pecten, 2..

Sauce :: Sauce (n.) Sauciness; impertinence.

Prong :: Prong (n.) The tine of a fork, or of a similar instrument; as, a fork of two or three prongs..

Narcotine :: Narcotine (n.) An alkaloid found in opium, and extracted as a white crystalline substance, tasteless and less poisonous than morphine; -- called also narcotia..

Cerussite :: Cerussite (n.) Native lead carbonate; a mineral occurring in colorless, white, or yellowish transparent crystals, with an adamantine, also massive and compact..

Abstentious :: Abstentious (a.) Characterized by abstinence; self-restraining.

Errant :: Errant (a.) Journeying; itinerant; -- formerly applied to judges who went on circuit and to bailiffs at large.

Benedictine :: Benedictine (n.) One of a famous order of monks, established by St. Benedict of Nursia in the sixth century. This order was introduced into the United States in 1846..

Pseudotineae :: Pseudotineae (pl. ) of Pseudotine.

Opianic :: Opianic (a.) Of, pertaining to, or designating, an organic acid obtained by the oxidation of narcotine..

Exiguity :: Exiguity (n.) Scantiness; smallness; thinness.

Palatine :: Palatine (a.) Of or pertaining to a palace, or to a high officer of a palace; hence, possessing royal privileges..

Fast :: Fast (v. i.) To practice abstinence as a religious exercise or duty; to abstain from food voluntarily for a time, for the mortification of the body or appetites, or as a token of grief, or humiliation and penitence..

Pintail :: Pintail (n.) A northern duck (Dafila acuta), native of both continents. The adult male has a long, tapering tail. Called also gray duck, piketail, piket-tail, spike-tail, split-tail, springtail, sea pheasant, and gray widgeon..

Lothario :: Lothario (n.) A gay seducer of women; a libertine.

Opianine :: Opianine (n.) An alkaloid found in small quantity in opium. It is identical with narcotine.

Terebinthine :: Terebinthine (a.) Of or pertaining to turpentine; consisting of turpentine, or partaking of its qualities..

Acrocephaly :: Acrocephaly (n.) Loftiness of skull.

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