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1. cāde n.(1)

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(a) A jar or cask; (b) a cask or barrel used for herring or other fish; a cask full of herring, etc.; also, as a measure of volume or number. …

2. nerve n.

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(a) A bodily part that transmits the capacity to feel or move from the brain or spinal cord, a nerve; nerve gustive, a nerve transmitting the sense of taste; nerve motive, a motor nerve; nerve optik……

3. padel n.(1)

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A long-handled spade used to remove earth adhering to a plow. …

4. hermofrodīte n.

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(a) A hermaphrodite; (b) fig. one who improperly occupies two offices. …

5. mō̆re n.(2)

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(a) A Moor; the nacioun of mores, Mauretania; ?also less precisely, a black African; (b) as adj.: Moorish. …

6. grǒume n.

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?Mire, slime, filth. …

7. prē̆sse n.

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(a) A crowd, throng, company, an assembly; also, the assembling or gathering of a crowd; also, a group of things; (b) amid (among(es, in, in middes) presse, among or in a crowd; into presse, in among……

8. panāricium n.

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An inflamed swelling around a fingernail; ?also, an abdominal aposteme. …

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