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Telegraph :: Telegraph (n.) An apparatus, or a process, for communicating intelligence rapidly between distant points, especially by means of preconcerted visible or audible signals representing words or ideas, or by means of words and signs, transmitted by electrical action..

Y :: Y () Y, the twenty-fifth letter of the English alphabet, at the beginning of a word or syllable, except when a prefix (see Y-), is usually a fricative vocal consonant; as a prefix, and usually in the middle or at the end of a syllable, it is a vowel. See Guide to Pronunciation, // 145, 178-9, 272..

Syllepsis :: Syllepsis (n.) A figure of speech by which a word is used in a literal and metaphorical sense at the same time.

Jug :: "Jug (v. i.) To utter a sound resembling this word, as certain birds do, especially the nightingale..

Metalepsis :: Metalepsis (n.) The continuation of a trope in one word through a succession of significations, or the union of two or more tropes of a different kind in one word..

Proparoxytone :: Proparoxytone (n.) A word which has the acute accent on the antepenult.

Logography :: Logography (n.) A method of printing in which whole words or syllables, cast as single types, are used..

Swordsman :: Swordsmen (pl. ) of Swordsma.

Facundious :: Facundious (a.) Eloquement; full of words.

Offensive :: Offensive (a.) Giving offense; causing displeasure or resentment; displeasing; annoying; as, offensive words..

Double :: Double (v. i.) To set up a word or words a second time by mistake; to make a doublet.

Brevity :: Brevity (n.) Contraction into few words; conciseness.

Commendation :: Commendation (n.) The act of commending; praise; favorable representation in words; recommendation.

Spearfish :: Spearfish (n.) A large and powerful fish (Tetrapturus albidus) related to the swordfish, but having scales and ventral fins. It is found on the American coast and the Mediterranean..

Paronymous :: Paronymous (a.) Having the same derivation; allied radically; conjugate; -- said of certain words, as man, mankind, manhood, etc..

Seditious :: Seditious (a.) Of or pertaining to sedition; partaking of the nature of, or tending to excite, sedition; as, seditious behavior; seditious strife; seditious words..

Tag :: Tag (n.) The end, or catchword, of an actor's speech; cue..

Paradigm :: Paradigm (n.) An example of a conjugation or declension, showing a word in all its different forms of inflection..

Lexiphanic :: Lexiphanic (a.) Using, or interlarded with, pretentious words; bombastic; as, a lexiphanic writer or speaker; lexiphanic writing..

Desynonymize :: Desynonymize (v. t.) To deprive of synonymous character; to discriminate in use; -- applied to words which have been employed as synonyms.

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