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1. basilicon n.(1)

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A garden herb of the mint family, basil.

2. empistonos, -tenos adj. as n.

Additional spellings: empistenos
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A tetanic spasm in which the head is drawn back, opisthotonos.

3. antropofaǧe n.

Additional spellings: anthropophage
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A person who eats human flesh, cannibal.

4. diaquiloun n.

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Med. A lead plaster containing various plant extracts; 'plaster containing mucilages (in some recipes also juices) extracted from plants, litharge (lead monoxide), and olive oil.' [Norri]; diaquiloun

5. sandarik adj.

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Of a red or red-orange colour, like the dyes produced from madder root.

6. adama(u)nt n.

Additional spellings: adamaunt
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(a) A kind of precious stone; diamond; (b) adamant; fig. something indestructible and enduring, something impenetrable.

7. panāricium n.

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

8. prō̆- pref.

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A common prefix in words derived from Latin or French; e.g., probleme, processionarie, progenitour, pronosticacioun, propugnacle, prosperite, provincial (nouns); profounde, prolixe, propicious,

9. malencolī(e n.

Additional spellings: malencolie
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(a) One of the four humors, black bile; a bodily fluid which helps to form and nourish the body; -- not pathological unless present in excessive amounts; also, an altered form of black bile [see (b)]…

10. antē̆me n.

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A musical composition based upon a scriptural text, sung in the Church Offices before each psalm and often repeated after the psalm, or after each verse of the psalm [see Karl Young, The Drama of the