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Quarter :: Quarter (v. t.) Proper station; specific place; assigned position; special location.

Refugee :: Refugee (n.) Especially, one who, in times of persecution or political commotion, flees to a foreign power or country for safety; as, the French refugees who left France after the revocation of the edict of Nantes..

Advowson :: Advowson (n.) The right of presenting to a vacant benefice or living in the church. [Originally, the relation of a patron (advocatus) or protector of a benefice, and thus privileged to nominate or present to it.].

Veratrine :: Veratrine (n.) A poisonous alkaloid obtained from the root hellebore (Veratrum) and from sabadilla seeds as a white crystalline powder, having an acrid, burning taste. It is sometimes used externally, as in ointments, in the local treatment of neuralgia and rheumatism. Called also veratria, and veratrina..

Licentiate :: Licentiate (n.) A friar authorized to receive confessions and grant absolution in all places, independently of the local clergy..

Canto :: Canto (n.) The highest vocal part; the air or melody in choral music; anciently the tenor, now the soprano..

Strappado :: Strappado (n.) A military punishment formerly practiced, which consisted in drawing an offender to the top of a beam and letting him fall to the length of the rope, by which means a limb was often dislocated..

Collocated :: Collocated (imp. & p. p.) of Collocat.

Picene :: Picene (n.) A hydrocarbon (C/H/) extracted from the pitchy residue of coal tar and petroleum as a bluish fluorescent crystalline substance.

Twinge :: Twinge (v. i.) To have a sudden, sharp, local pain, like a twitch; to suffer a keen, darting, or shooting pain; as, the side twinges..

Equivocate :: Equivocate (a.) To use words of equivocal or doubtful signification; to express one's opinions in terms which admit of different senses, with intent to deceive; to use ambiguous expressions with a view to mislead; as, to equivocate is the work of duplicity..

Belief :: Belief (n.) A tenet, or the body of tenets, held by the advocates of any class of views; doctrine; creed..

Whisper :: Whisper (v. t.) To utter in a low and nonvocal tone; to say under the breath; hence, to mention privately and confidentially, or in a whisper..

Myocarditis :: Myocarditis (n.) Inflammation of the myocardium.

Braxy :: Braxy (n.) A disease of sheep. The term is variously applied in different localities.

Advocate :: Advocate (v. i.) To act as advocate.

Nativist :: Nativist (n.) An advocate of nativism.

Suprahepatic :: Supraglotic (a.) Situated above the glottis; -- applied to that part of the cavity of the larynx above the true vocal cords.

Univocal :: Univocal (a.) Having unison of sound, as the octave in music. See Unison, n., 2..

Univocal :: Univocal (a.) Having one meaning only; -- contrasted with equivocal.

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