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1. acelle n.

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Armpit.

2. 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.

3. albeston n.

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A mineral reputed to be unquenchable when set on fire; ?the fiber asbestos as used for the wick of an ever-burning lamp; prob. confused with alabaster in quot. c1450.

4. almerīe n.

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A place for storing or safekeeping: (a) a pantry or butlery; a safe for food; also said of the stomach [quot. a1398]; (b) a closet or wardrobe; (c) a cabinet, chest, or strongbox, as for valuables…

5. amit n.

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A Eucharistic vestment: amice [a linen scarf worn over the head and the shoulders].

6. arcister n.

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One who professes the liberal arts.

7. aube n.

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(a) An ecclesiastical vestment (usually of white linen) reaching to the ankles, an alb; also, the Greek poderis, the Hebrew ephod; (b) aube girdel, girdle used to gather the alb at the waist.

8. 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…

9. chilindre n.

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A portable sun dial in the shape of an upright cylinder with a conical top [see L. Thorndike in Isis 13.51-2].

10. ciment n.

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(a) Any substance, such as mortar, cement, plaster, etc. for binding stones, surfacing walls, etc., which hardens after it has been applied.

11. clistē̆r n.

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Med. (a) A clyster, enema; any medicinal liquid administered through the rectum; (b) the instrument for injecting such liquids, a sort of syringe.

12. dīǧest n.

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A collection of laws; esp., the compilation of Roman laws made by order of the Emperor Justinian.

13. dissenterie n.

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Dysentery; flux dissenterie.

14. dromedārī(e n.

Additional spellings: dromedarie
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A dromedary; also, a camel of any kind.

15. elitrōpe n.

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Any of various plants which respond to the movement of the sun. [See Osiris 3.22-46.]

16. embōte, -um n.

Additional spellings: embotum
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Med. A syringe or douche for introducing curative fumes or liquids.

17. emoroid(es n. (plural, rarely singular)

Additional spellings: emoroides
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Hemorrhoids, esp. the bleeding kind; def emoroid, hemorrhoids that do not bleed; also, the presence of hemorrhoids as constituting a morbid condition. [Cp. figes, piles.]

18. ē̆quinox n.

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Either of the two periods, one in March, the other in September, when the days and nights are of equal length; the equinox.

19. fāce n.

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(a) The face of man in its general physical aspects; (b) the face of an animal; (c) the face (of Fortune); the (double) face (of Janus, Law).

20. filāce n.

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A place where official documents and letters are kept, a file.

21. fīōle n.

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(a) A small glass or metal bowl or cup for liquids, incense, etc.; (b) a flask; (c) fig.

22. flẹ̄me n.(2)

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Surg. A lancet used for letting blood.

23. garant n.(2)

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A black gem with magical powers.

24. ǧinǧivere n.

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(a) The root of the plant Zingiber officinale or of a related species, ginger; poudre (of) gingivere, finely ground ginger; race (rote) of gingivere, a root of ginger; (b) grene gingivere, gingivere

25. Gorgon n.

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(a) One of three mythical females, with snakes for hair, whose look turned the beholder into stone; a Gorgon; (b) ?a representation or a statue of a Gorgon; (c) a rain spout, gargoyle.

26. illīciǒun n.

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Offense, violation of right, scandal.

27. inventārī(e n.

Additional spellings: inventarie
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(a) A detailed list of goods and chattels, of books, etc.; an inventory; (b) inventari of cirurgie, Guy de Chauliac's treatise on surgery.

28. leopard n.

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(a) The leopard (Felis pardus); (b) one who is like a leopard in cunning and cleverness; (c) leopard man, the keeper of leopards in a noble household.

29. licorī̆s n.

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(a) The dried root of the plant Glycyrrhiza glabra, used in medicine and cooking; licorice; (b) the plant itself; (c) licoris of inde, indes licoris, ?the root of Indian licorice (Abrus precatorius).

30. mandrag(e n.

Additional spellings: mandrage
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Either of two Old World mandrakes (Mandragora vernalis or M. officinarum); also, a part of these plants used in medicine; mandrag lef.

31. market n.(1)

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(a) A periodical public assembly for buying or selling; also, an occasion of such a gathering; beten market, to linger or hang about at a market; crien a market, announce the holding of a market…

32. mūl(e n.(1)

Additional spellings: mule
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(a) A mule; (b) barain (hep) of mules, a herd or group of mules; mul of spaine, one of the best mules, a Spanish mule; mul flesh, mule meat; mul grom (herde, man, ward), a mulekeeper, servant who…

33. orīsont(e n.

Additional spellings: orisonte
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(a) The horizon; the horizon of a particular location; est orisont, the eastern portion of the horizon; (b) embelif orisont, the oblique horizon, horizon of any point between the equator and the poles…

34. pestel n.

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(a) An instrument used to grind materials in a mortar, a pestle; pestel of iren, a pestle made of iron; also fig.; (b) a threshing sled [see Singer & Holmyard Hist.Tech. 106].

35. phēnīcienes n. plural

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Phoenicians.

36. prī̆ǒur n.

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(a) The head or deputy head of a monastery or a house of mendicants, a prior; also, the head of a house of canons; (b) abbotes and (or) prioures; prioures chapele (cloistre); priour and brether,

37. Psalm(e n.

Additional spellings: Psalme
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(a) One of the Psalms of the Book of Psalms; (b) seien Psalm, to sing a Psalm; also, recite a Psalm; seiere of psalmes, a singer of Psalms; singen Psalm, sing a Psalm; praise (God) with a Psalm; don

38. reliǧiǒus n.

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As pl.: (a) persons bound by vow to a religious order, as distinguished from the secular clergy; monks, nuns, friars, etc.; (b) churchmen and churchwomen generally, nonlaymen, ecclesiastics; (c) reule

39. rīnoceros n.

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A horned beast, sometimes regarded as a species of unicorn; a rhinoceros.

40. 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.

41. sai(e n.

Additional spellings: saie
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(a) An esteemed variety of woolen cloth, perh. rather heavy; ?also, a small piece of such cloth [quot.: ?c1475]; double sai, such cloth in two layers; worsted sai, a piece of worsted; (b) a curtain…

42. 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…

43. sambūc n.

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(a) The European elder Sambucus nigra; also, ?oil or gum of the elder tree [last quot.]; oile of sambuc; (b) a musical pipe.

44. 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.

45. sanguin(e n.

Additional spellings: sanguine
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(a) A blood-red color; also, rosy hue [last quot.]; (b) a rich cloth of a blood-red color; also, a piece of such cloth; (c) one of the four humors, blood; also, the complexion, or temperament…

46. 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

47. sarment n.

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A vine cutting, twig of a tree; -- also coll.

48. saturion n.

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(a) A name for various types of orchid; also, cuckoopint (Arum maculatum); saturion majour; (b) saturion minor, bluebell, wild hyacinth (Endymion nonscriptus).

49. scaf(fe n.(1)

Additional spellings: scaffe
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(a) A boat; a small boat, skiff, dinghy; (b) a basket; ?also, a bowl.

50. scāle n.(2)

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(a) A ladder; (b) fig. of the cross or the Virgin Mary: a means by which man ascends to heaven or eternal life; (c) a scaling ladder used in sieges; (d) one of the rungs of a ladder.

51. scā̆r(re n.(1)

Additional spellings: scarre
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(a) The scar of a wound or sore, cicatrix; (b) the scab produced by cautery; (c) a remnant of a morbid tumor or glandular condition, anything morbid that remains when such a condition has been…

52. scedūle n.

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(a) A written document; (b) an itemized list attached to a bill.

53. scī̆atica n.

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

54. scī̆ence n.

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(a) What is known, knowledge; information; -- also pl.; ?also, self-knowledge [quot.: a1475]; (b) accurate knowledge, certain knowledge; (c) experiential or empathic knowledge; (d) the knowledge in…

55. scisme n.

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(a) A split in the church producing two or more parties, each rejecting the other's authority, a schism, esp. one resulting from rival claimants to the papacy; also, a split within a religious order…

56. sclūse n.

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(a) A dam with a water gate or escapement for impounding or controlling the flow of water; also, a water gate; also fig.; (b) ?a stretch of water impounded by a dam or dike; -- used fig.; (c) cook. ?a…

57. scotōmīe n.

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Dizziness, vertigo; visual symptoms including dimness, 'floaters,' or similar effects.

58. scrūtinī(e n.

Additional spellings: scrutinie
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The formal enumerating of individual votes in an election to an office.

59. scūte n.(1)

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A French gold coin, usu. worth half an English noble, or 3 s. 4 d.

60. secundīne n.

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(a) The fetal membranes; the afterbirth; (b) anat. the middle, or vascular, tunic of the eye; secundine tunica, tunica (tunicle) secundine.

61. sē̆mitōn n.

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Mus. An interval approximating half a whole tone.

62. sēre n.(1)

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The waxy membrane at the base of a hawk's upper mandible, cere; also, the bare skin surrounding a hawk's eyes, orbital skin; also, the bare skin on a hawk's legs and feet.

63. serē̆nitẹ̄ n.

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(a) Clear weather, fair weather; (b) a title given to a king, highness.

64. serpentīn(e n.

Additional spellings: serpentine
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(a) A plant, prob. the dragonwort Dracunculus vulgaris; (b) a precious or semiprecious stone, thought to have magical powers; (c) a small cannon; serpentin gonne; (d) a representation or figure of a…

65. shingles n.

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A skin disease, prob. herpes zoster, characterized by eruptions and a tendency to spread in a circle around the waist.

66. sil n.

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An eyebrow.

67. sincopis n.

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(a) Loss of consciousness accompanied by weakening of the pulse; (b) contraction of a word by omission of one or more sounds.

68. sirō̆n n.

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A shoot, sprout.

69. sīsamīe n.

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The seed of the sesame plant (Sesamum indicum).

70. smaragd(e n.

Additional spellings: smaragde
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A precious stone, green in color, esp. an emerald; also, emerald; smaragd ston.

71. sodomīt(e n.

Additional spellings: sodomite
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(a) One who practices sodomy, a sodomite; also fig.; bodili (carnal) sodomit; gostli sodomit, one who is spiritually corrupt; (b) sodomy; sinne of sodomit; (c) an inhabitant of Sodom.

72. sō̆le n.

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(a) The sole of the human foot; also, the under surface of an animal's hoof; fot sole; (b) a sole of a (the, his) sole, the sole of the fot, the sole of his (thi) fet, the soles of the (his, here)

73. solempnitẹ̄ n.

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(a) Religious celebration or ceremony, sacredness; dai of solempnite, a festival day; feste of solempnite, a sacred festival; maken solempnite, to celebrate, perform religious celebrations; maken

74. sō̆lē̆r(e n.

Additional spellings: solere
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(a) An upper chamber or a set of rooms in a dwelling place; also, a loft, garret; heigh soler; soler flor, the floor of an upper apartment or story; (b) an upper chamber in a church or church steeple…

75. sordicī̆e n.

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Med. Purulent matter, pus.

76. spāce n.

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(a) An interval or a span of time elapsing between two specified points, events, etc.; (b) the amount or extent of time comprised by or contained within a specified period; -- often with gen. or of ph…

77. spens(e n.(1)

Additional spellings: spense
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(a) Funds, money for expenses; a monetary payment or reward [quot. c1384]; spenses of the nedi, money for the poor; greven with spenses, to ask (sb.) for money; (b) a charge borne or incurred, cost…

78. spẹ̄re n.(3)

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(a) The cosmos, composed of hollow concentric revolving spheres surrounding the earth; spere of the firmament; (b) the outermost sphere of the cosmos, the primum mobile, regulating the motion of the…

79. stā̆min n.

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(a) Cloth of some kind, usu. made of wool; also, a piece of this cloth; stamin cloth; (b) an undergarment made of this cloth; -- also coll. [quot.: c1390; quot. may belong to (a)]; (c) ?a border or…

80. stank n.

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(a) A pond, pool; a reservoir; a lake; also in fig. context [quot.: c1400]; stank hed, a dam or similar structure for controlling the water in a pond; stank medwe, a meadow in which there is a pond…

81. stomak n.

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(a) The human stomach; the primary organ of digestion; also, the stomach as the seat of hunger; stomak partie; stomak(es mouth, mouth of the stomak, the opening from the esophagus into the stomach…

82. strumpet n.

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(a) A prostitute, whore; a concubine; a loose woman, an adulteress; also fig.; strumpet womman, womman strumpet; strumpet arrai, the garb of a harlot; strumpet mongere, one who consorts with…

83. stuble n.

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(a) A stalk of grain; the yet stondinge in the stuble, unharvested grain, grain still standing; (b) coll. the ends of grain stalks left in the ground after reaping, stubble; harvested stubble or flax…

84. studient n.

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One who pursues knowledge, a scholar; one who pursues learning at a school or university, a student.

85. suppositōrī(e n.

Additional spellings: suppositorie
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Med. (a) A rectal suppository to induce defecation, eliminate abdominal gas, promote healing, etc.; (b) a vaginal suppository to reduce excessive menstrual flow or purge the uterus of unhealthy…

86. sustentāciǒun n.

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(a) The quality of being able to hold up or support someone or something physically; haven sustentacioun; (b) anat. a supporting structure in the body.

87. tāble n.

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(a) A small, portable writing tablet made from a slab of wood or other hard material, often covered with wax in which the characters are incised; pl. a set of tablets, usu. tied or hinged together, a…

88. tamarinde n.

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The pod-shaped fruit of the tamarind tree (Tamarindus indica), used medicinally; water of tamarindes, a decoction made from this fruit.

89. tapē̆t(e n.

Additional spellings: tapete
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(a) A piece of decorative fabric bearing a painted, embroidered, or woven pattern or figures and used variously as a carpet, coverlet, bed or wall hanging, or the like, a tapestry; also fig.; also in…

90. tenaunt n.

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(a) One who holds real property from another by feudal obligation or payment of rent; (b) tenaunt bi (de) devis, a tenant by inheritance; tenaunt bi the courteisie, tenaunt thurgh laue of engelond, a…

91. terebentīne n.

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(a) The oleoresin of the terebinth tree, turpentine; gomme terebentine; (b) a medicinal compound made of this oleoresin and an oil.

92. test(e n.(1)

Additional spellings: teste
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(a) A crucible or similar vessel for trying such metals as silver or gold, a vessel for heating something to a high temperature; (b) a piece or fragment of some vessel-like object, such as a shell or…

93. thē̆orī̆k(e n.

Additional spellings: theorike
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(a) The general laws or principles governing an aspect of the natural order; also, in the title of a book [last quot.]; (b) a treatise setting forth a system of abstract laws or principles; (c)…

94. thēta n.

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(a) The name of the letter Θ in the Greek alphabet, theta; (b) the sign of the cross [based on the L transliteration of the Greek character; cp. tau n.]; (c) math. the arithmetical symbol for zero.

95. thū̆ribul n.

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A censer, thurible.

96. thū̆rificāciǒun n.

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The rite of burning, offering, or fumigating with incense.

97. titimal(le n.

Additional spellings: titimalle
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(a) One of several plants of the genus Euphorbia, spurge; (b) the plant genus Euphorbia.

98. toleraunce n.

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(a) The capacity to bear pain or tolerate discomfort; (b) forbearance, patience; also, allowance, permission.

99. tomb(e n.

Additional spellings: tombe
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(a) A structure for the interment of a corpse; a tomb, sepulcher; a mausoleum [a few quots. may belong to (c)]; tomb wonder, a miraculous tomb; (b) a grave; a burial mound; (c) a coffin or…

100. torciǒun n.

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(a) A painful twisting of the intestines; pl. stomach cramps, gripes, colic; (b) a twisting of bones and joints; (c) pl. torment.