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Misuse :: Misuse (v. t.) To treat or use improperly; to use to a bad purpose; to misapply; as, to misuse one's talents..

Unlicked :: Unlicked (a.) Not licked; hence, not properly formed; ungainly. Cf. To lick into shape, under Lick, v..

Dipsomania :: Dipsomania (n.) A morbid an uncontrollable craving (often periodic) for drink, esp. for alcoholic liquors; also improperly used to denote acute and chronic alcoholism..

Bearing :: Bearing (n.) Improperly, the unsupported span; as, the beam has twenty feet of bearing between its supports..

Rightly :: Rightly (adv.) Properly; fitly; suitably; appropriately.

Unthriftily :: Unthriftily (adv.) Improperly; unbecomingly.

Styryl :: Styrone (n.) A white crystalline substance having a sweet taste and a hyacinthlike odor, obtained by the decomposition of styracin; -- properly called cinnamic, / styryl, alcohol..

Fact :: Fact (n.) The assertion or statement of a thing done or existing; sometimes, even when false, improperly put, by a transfer of meaning, for the thing done, or supposed to be done; a thing supposed or asserted to be done; as, history abounds with false facts..

An :: An () This word is properly an adjective, but is commonly called the indefinite article. It is used before nouns of the singular number only, and signifies one, or any, but somewhat less emphatically. In such expressions as twice an hour, once an age, a shilling an ounce (see 2d A, 2), it has a distributive force, and is equivalent to each, every..

L :: L (n.) An extension at right angles to the length of a main building, giving to the ground plan a form resembling the letter L; sometimes less properly applied to a narrower, or lower, extension in the direction of the length of the main building; a wing..

Watch :: Watch (v. i.) To serve the purpose of a watchman by floating properly in its place; -- said of a buoy.

Zend :: Zend (n.) Properly, the translation and exposition in the Huzv/resh, or literary Pehlevi, language, of the Avesta, the Zoroastrian sacred writings; as commonly used, the language (an ancient Persian dialect) in which the Avesta is written..

Minster :: Minster (n.) A church of a monastery. The name is often retained and applied to the church after the monastery has ceased to exist (as Beverly Minster, Southwell Minster, etc.), and is also improperly used for any large church..

Either :: Either (a. & pron.) One of two; the one or the other; -- properly used of two things, but sometimes of a larger number, for any one..

Cedrat :: Cedrat (n.) Properly the citron, a variety of Citrus medica, with large fruits, not acid, and having a high perfume..

Baldric :: Baldric (n.) A broad belt, sometimes richly ornamented, worn over one shoulder, across the breast, and under the opposite arm; less properly, any belt..

Anacrusis :: Anacrusis (n.) A prefix of one or two unaccented syllables to a verse properly beginning with an accented syllable.

Firstly :: Firstly (adv.) In the first place; before anything else; -- sometimes improperly used for first.

Duly :: Duly (adv.) In a due, fit, or becoming manner; as it (anything) ought to be; properly; regularly..

Brake :: Brake (n.) A fern of the genus Pteris, esp. the P. aquilina, common in almost all countries. It has solitary stems dividing into three principal branches. Less properly: Any fern..

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