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Abstracted :: Abstracted (a.) Separated or disconnected; withdrawn; removed; apart.

Posting :: Posting (n.) The act of traveling post.

Solicitor :: Solicitor (n.) An attorney or advocate; one who represents another in court; -- formerly, in English practice, the professional designation of a person admitted to practice in a court of chancery or equity. See the Note under Attorney..

Trusion :: Trusion (n.) The act of pushing or thrusting.

Spattling-poppy :: Spattling-poppy (n.) A kind of catchfly (Silene inflata) which is sometimes frothy from the action of captured insects.

Retroaction :: Retroaction (n.) Operation on something past or preceding.

Contraction :: Contraction (n.) Something contracted or abbreviated, as a word or phrase; -- as, plenipo for plenipotentiary; crim. con. for criminal conversation, etc..

Umpire :: Umpire (v. i.) To act as umpire or arbitrator.

Slip :: Slip (n.) The motion of the center of resistance of the float of a paddle wheel, or the blade of an oar, through the water horozontally, or the difference between a vessel's actual speed and the speed which she would have if the propelling instrument acted upon a solid; also, the velocity, relatively to still water, of the backward current of water produced by the propeller..

Extraction :: Extraction (n.) That which is extracted; extract; essence.

Bailment :: Bailment (n.) A delivery of goods or money by one person to another in trust, for some special purpose, upon a contract, expressed or implied, that the trust shall be faithfully executed..

Text-hand :: Text-hand (n.) A large hand in writing; -- so called because it was the practice to write the text of a book in a large hand and the notes in a smaller hand.

Inference :: Inference (n.) The act or process of inferring by deduction or induction.

Protestation :: Protestation (n.) Formerly, a declaration in common-law pleading, by which the party interposes an oblique allegation or denial of some fact, protesting that it does or does not exist, and at the same time avoiding a direct affirmation or denial..

Reconstruction :: Reconstruction (n.) The act or process of reorganizing the governments of the States which had passed ordinances of secession, and of reestablishing their constitutional relations to the national government, after the close of the Civil War..

Tenesmic :: Tenesmic (a.) Of or pertaining to tenesmus; characterized by tenesmus.

Quintessence :: Quintessence (v. t.) To distil or extract as a quintessence; to reduce to a quintessence.

Entry :: Entry (n.) The actual taking possession of lands or tenements, by entering or setting foot on them..

Noticeable :: Noticeable (a.) Capable of being observed; worthy of notice; likely to attract observation; conspicous.

Coactively :: Coactively (adv.) In a coactive manner.

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