An inclined plane, either artificial or natural, down which timber, coal, etc., are caused to slide; also, a narrow passage, either natural or artificial, in a stream, where the water rushes rapidly; esp., a channel, having a swift current, connecting the ends of a bend in the stream, so as to shorten the course.
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A violent gust of wind.
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A violent gust of wind.
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Lye or suds in which cloth is soaked in the operation of bleaching, or in which clothes are washed.
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Lye or suds in which cloth is soaked in the operation of bleaching, or in which clothes are washed.
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To lay on or impose, as a load, tax, or burden; to load; to fill.
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To lay on or impose, as a load, tax, or burden; to load; to fill.
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A pointed missile weapon, intended to be thrown by the hand; a short lance; a javelin; hence, any sharp-pointed missile weapon, as an arrow.
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A pointed missile weapon, intended to be thrown by the hand; a short lance; a javelin; hence, any sharp-pointed missile weapon, as an arrow.
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To throw with violence or haste; to cause to strike violently or hastily; -- often used with against.
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To throw with violence or haste; to cause to strike violently or hastily; -- often used with against.
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A thin skin; a pellicle; a membranous covering, causing opacity; hence, any thin, slight covering.
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A thin skin; a pellicle; a membranous covering, causing opacity; hence, any thin, slight covering.
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To burst or break forth with a sudden and transient flood of flame and light; as, the lighting flashes vividly; the powder flashed.
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To burst or break forth with a sudden and transient flood of flame and light; as, the lighting flashes vividly; the powder flashed.
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To sprout; to bud; to shoot; to begin to vegetate, as a plant or its seed; to begin to develop, as a germ.
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To sprout; to bud; to shoot; to begin to vegetate, as a plant or its seed; to begin to develop, as a germ.
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It.
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It.
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To throw in; to dart in; to force in; as, to inject cold water into a condenser; to inject a medicinal liquid into a cavity of the body; to inject mo…
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To throw in; to dart in; to force in; as, to inject cold water into a condenser; to inject a medicinal liquid into a cavity of the body; to inject mo…
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A picture or likeness obtained by photography.
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A picture or likeness obtained by photography.
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A contagious disease of fowls, characterized by hoarseness, discharge from the nostrils and eyes, and an accumulation of mucus in the mouth, forming…
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A contagious disease of fowls, characterized by hoarseness, discharge from the nostrils and eyes, and an accumulation of mucus in the mouth, forming…
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To walk fast; to go quickly; to run hastily away.
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To walk fast; to go quickly; to run hastily away.
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To move swiftly; especially, to move as if driven forward by something.
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To move swiftly; especially, to move as if driven forward by something.
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To break at once; to break short, as substances that are brittle.
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To break at once; to break short, as substances that are brittle.
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To touch or hit with some force, either with the hand or with an instrument; to smite; to give a blow to, either with the hand or with any instrument…
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To touch or hit with some force, either with the hand or with an instrument; to smite; to give a blow to, either with the hand or with any instrument…
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Taken.
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Taken.
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A drop of the limpid, saline fluid secreted, normally in small amount, by the lachrymal gland, and diffused between the eye and the eyelids to moiste…
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A drop of the limpid, saline fluid secreted, normally in small amount, by the lachrymal gland, and diffused between the eye and the eyelids to moiste…
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A name given to several species of plants; as, smallage, wild celery, parsley.
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To manage or conduct, as public affairs; to direct or superintend the execution, application, or conduct of; as, to administer the government or the…
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To destroy, as by decomposition, dissipation, waste, or fire; to use up; to expend; to waste; to burn up; to eat up; to devour.
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To form by an exercise of ingenuity; to devise; to invent; to design; to plan.
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To relieve of a charge, load, or burden; to empty of a load or cargo; to unburden; to unload; as, to discharge a vessel.
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To deal out in portions; to distribute; to give; as, the steward dispenses provisions according directions; Nature dispenses her bounties; to dispens…
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To send forth; to throw or give out; to cause to issue; to give vent to; to eject; to discharge; as, fire emits heat and smoke; boiling water emits s…
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To inclose. See Inclose.
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To come or go into; to pass into the interior of; to pass within the outer cover or shell of; to penetrate; to pierce; as, to enter a house, a closet…
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The evolution of light and heat in the combustion of bodies; combustion; state of ignition.
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To increase in size by a natural and organic process; to increase in bulk by the gradual assimilation of new matter into the living organism; -- said…
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To press; to drive or urge forward; to push on; to precipitate; to accelerate the movement of; to expedite; to hurry.
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To hasten; to go in haste; -- also often with the reciprocal pronoun.
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It.
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In haste; foothot.
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A band on a trip-hammer helve, bearing the trunnions.
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To surround; to shut in; to confine on all sides; to include; to shut up; to encompass; as, to inclose a fort or an army with troops; to inclose a to…
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To do harm to; to impair the excellence and value of; to hurt; to damage; -- used in a variety of senses; as: (a) To hurt or wound, as the person; to…
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To set within something; to put or thrust in; to introduce; to cause to enter, or be included, or contained; as, to insert a scion in a stock; to ins…
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To weave together; to intermix or unite in texture or construction; to intertwine; as, threads of silk and cotton interwoven.
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To lead or bring in; to conduct or usher in; as, to introduce a person into a drawing-room.
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A kiln.
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A standard of dimension; a fixed unit of quantity or extent; an extent or quantity in the fractions or multiples of which anything is estimated and s…
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To measure.
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The place from which a thing projects, or starts forth.
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To raze.
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To recall to mind; to recollect; to remember; to meditate.
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A name given to many aquatic or marsh-growing endogenous plants with soft, slender stems, as the species of Juncus and Scirpus.
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A notch or incision; especially, one that is made as a tally mark; hence, a mark, or line, made for the purpose of account.
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To feel a lively, pungent local pain; -- said of some part of the body as the seat of irritation; as, my finger smarts; these wounds smart.
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Prosperity in an undertaking; favorable issue; success.
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To shoot, as the seed of a plant; to germinate; to push out new shoots; hence, to grow like shoots of plants.
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To scatter; to disperse.
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Originally, a piece of wood on which notches or scores were cut, as the marks of number; later, one of two books, sheets of paper, etc., on which cor…
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Pain; especially, pain of travail; throe.
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Outer.
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Wore.
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Desolate; devastated; stripped; bare; hence, dreary; dismal; gloomy; cheerless.
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To unite, as threads of any kind, in such a manner as to form a texture; to entwine or interlace into a fabric; as, to weave wool, silk, etc.; hence,…
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A pretty or dear little bird; -- a pet name.
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A stream of gas or vapor emitting light and heat in the process of combustion; a bright flame.
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A goblin; a bugbear. See Bogy.
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To strain apart; to sever by fracture; to divide with violence; as, to break a rope or chain; to break a seal; to break an axle; to break rocks or co…
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A shot in which the ball struck with the cue comes in contact with two or more balls on the table; a hitting of two or more balls with the player's b…
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To cut small pieces from; to diminish or reduce to shape, by cutting away a little at a time; to hew.
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Fine, soft, hairy outgrowth from the skin or surface of animals or plants, not matted and fleecy like wool
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Any large, rapacious bird of the Falcon family, esp. of the genera Aquila and Haliaeetus. The eagle is remarkable for strength, size, graceful figure…
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The evolution of light and heat in the combustion of bodies; combustion; state of ignition.
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The act or flying; a passing through the air by the help of wings; volitation; mode or style of flying.
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Popularly: Herbage; the plants which constitute the food of cattle and other beasts; pasture.
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To pour in, as a liquid; to pour (into or upon); to shed.
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To bud; to insert, or graft, as the bud of a tree or plant in another tree or plant.
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The kneepan.
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The joint of a finger, particularly when made prominent by the closing of the fingers.
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Urine. See Lant.
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To shoot over or beyond.
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To thrust into water, or into any substance that is penetrable; to immerse; to cause to penetrate or enter quickly and forcibly; to thrust; as, to pl…
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A low shoe with a thin sole.
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To take or receive again.
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A wicker fish basket.
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Any one of numerous species of limicoline game birds of the family Scolopacidae, having a long, slender, nearly straight beak.
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To inoculate with the cowpox by means of a virus, called vaccine, taken either directly or indirectly from cows.
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A form of electromagnetic radiation used for imaging
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A scoop with a long handle, used to wash the sides of a vessel, and formerly to wet the sails or deck.
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One who, or that which, sucks; esp., one of the organs by which certain animals, as the octopus and remora, adhere to other bodies.
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One who tills; a husbandman; a cultivator; a plowman.
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To sprout; to put forth buds; to shoot forth, as a branch.
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To sprout; to put forth buds; to shoot forth, as a branch.
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A contagious disease of fowls, characterized by hoarseness, discharge from the nostrils and eyes, and an accumulation of mucus in the mouth, forming…
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A contagious disease of fowls, characterized by hoarseness, discharge from the nostrils and eyes, and an accumulation of mucus in the mouth, forming…
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One who shoots, as an archer or a gunner.
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One who shoots, as an archer or a gunner.
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To break at once; to break short, as substances that are brittle.
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To break at once; to break short, as substances that are brittle.
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Tow.
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Tow.
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To destroy, as by decomposition, dissipation, waste, or fire; to use up; to expend; to waste; to burn up; to eat up; to devour.
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To empty or unload, as the vessels of human system, by bloodletting or by medicine.
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To draw or let out wholly; to drain off completely; as, to exhaust the water of a well; the moisture of the earth is exhausted by evaporation.
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To lay out, apply, or employ in any way; to consume by use; to use up or distribute, either in payment or in donations; to spend; as, they expend mon…
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The act of employing anything, or of applying it to one's service; the state of being so employed or applied; application; employment; conversion to…
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A violent gust of wind.
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To sprout; to put forth buds; to shoot forth, as a branch.
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Lye or suds in which cloth is soaked in the operation of bleaching, or in which clothes are washed.
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To lay on or impose, as a load, tax, or burden; to load; to fill.
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A pointed missile weapon, intended to be thrown by the hand; a short lance; a javelin; hence, any sharp-pointed missile weapon, as an arrow.
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To throw with violence or haste; to cause to strike violently or hastily; -- often used with against.
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To scatter completely; to disperse and cause to disappear; -- used esp. of the dispersion of things that can never again be collected or restored.
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A thin skin; a pellicle; a membranous covering, causing opacity; hence, any thin, slight covering.
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To burst or break forth with a sudden and transient flood of flame and light; as, the lighting flashes vividly; the powder flashed.
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A compound of gooseberries scalded and crushed, with cream; -- commonly called gooseberry fool.
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A small quantity of batter, fried in boiling lard or in a frying pan. Fritters are of various kinds, named from the substance inclosed in the batter;…
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To sprout; to bud; to shoot; to begin to vegetate, as a plant or its seed; to begin to develop, as a germ.
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It.
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To throw in; to dart in; to force in; as, to inject cold water into a condenser; to inject a medicinal liquid into a cavity of the body; to inject mo…
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A picture or likeness obtained by photography.
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A contagious disease of fowls, characterized by hoarseness, discharge from the nostrils and eyes, and an accumulation of mucus in the mouth, forming…
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To germinate; to bud; to multiply abundantly.
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To walk fast; to go quickly; to run hastily away.
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To move swiftly; especially, to move as if driven forward by something.
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To break at once; to break short, as substances that are brittle.
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To shoot, as the seed of a plant; to germinate; to push out new shoots; hence, to grow like shoots of plants.
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A sharp, narrow spade, usually with a long handle, used by farmers for digging up large-rooted weeds; a similarly shaped implement used for various p…
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Taken.
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A drop of the limpid, saline fluid secreted, normally in small amount, by the lachrymal gland, and diffused between the eye and the eyelids to moiste…
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