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1. ars-metrīk(e n.

Additional spellings: arsmetrik, ars-metrike, arsmetrike
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(a) The 'art' or 'science' of measuring and calculating, being one of the four disciplines comprised in the quadrivium (along with geometry, astronomy, and music); (b) a treatise on this 'science'. …

2. bito(u)r n.

Additional spellings: bitour
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The European bittern Botaurus stellaris. …

3. cedūle n.

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(a) A piece of paper or parchment containing writing; a written document, letter, etc.; (b) a brief document attached to a roll or enclosed in a letter, and usually containing a list of names or bill……

4. cuve n.

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A tub or vat. …

5. pit n.

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(a) A natural or man-made depression in the ground, hole, pit, ditch; cave; also fig.; also, an open excavation from which some mineral product is obtained or in which some industrial process is……

6. raisī̆n n.

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(a) A grape, cluster of grapes; also in proverb; (b) a raisin; gret raisin; raisin graines, raisin seeds; (c) raisin corauns, raisin of corauns, a Corinthian raisin, currant [see also corauns n.]; (d)……

7. rē̆sī̆n(e n.

Additional spellings: resine
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Resin, a resin; -- often used in medicines; resin gomme, balm. …

8. resistence n.

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(a) Military defense, armed resistance; fighting against an enemy; physical resistance; resistence of, defense against (sb. or sth.); maken resistence; (b) a waylaying of someone; (c) physical force. …

9. rẹ̄vel n.(2)

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A stream, brook. …

10. rō̆sī̆n(e n.

Additional spellings: rosine
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(a) A distillate of turpentine, rosin; also, resin; (b) rosin clene (coiled, pured), god (clene) rosin, high-grade rosin or resin; red rosin, whit (drie) rosin. …

11. rōs-marīn(e n.

Additional spellings: rosmarin, ros-marine, rosmarine
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Rosemary (Rosmarinus officinalis) or a similar herb. …

12. salā̆rī(e n.

Additional spellings: salarie
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(a) Compensation, payment, esp. a salary or compensation periodically paid for regular service [sometimes difficult to distinguish from (b)]; also fig.; (b) a payment for a specific service or limited……

13. sandal n.

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(a) A kind of shoe, consisting of a sole fastened to the foot by thongs, a sandal; (b) a richly made shoe worn by popes and bishops. …

14. saphīr(e n.

Additional spellings: saphire
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(a) A sapphire; -- also coll.; also, sapphire, a transparent variety of corundum; (b) saphir of the est (londes, saphir orientale, a sapphire from the East; saphir (of) Inde, a sapphire from India or……

15. Sarasī̆n(e n.(1)

Additional spellings: Sarasine
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(a) A Turk; also, an Arab; also, a Moslem; -- often with ref. to the Crusades; Sarasin hed, the head of a Saracen; (b) a heathen, pagan; an infidel; (c) as a type of non-Christian; Sarasin or jeu, jeu……

16. saucer(e n.

Additional spellings: saucere
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(a) A saucer, shallow dish; ?also, a saltcellar; (b) in poetic comparison and fig. context; (c) in cpds. & combs.: saucer brerd, saucer rim; saucer ful, a saucerful; saucer molde, a mold for a saucer……

17. sauǧe n.

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(a) The herb sage Salvia officinalis; also, wood sage or wild sage Teucrium scorodonia, ambrose; sauge real, sage royal, small sage Salvia officinalis minor; wilde sauge; (b) in cookery recipes; also……

18. scī̆atica n.

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(a) The disease sciatica; (b) an attack of the disease. …

19. scismatī̆k n.

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One who participates in an ecclesiastical schism, a schismatic; heretike and (or) scismatik. …

20. sē̆diciǒun n.

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(a) Violent factional strife, civil or religious disorder, riot; also, an instance of such strife or disorder; (b) a concerted attempt to overthrow the civil authority, an uprising, a revolt; (c)……

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