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Slake :: Slake (v. i.) To abate; to become less decided.

Interpellation :: Interpellation (n.) An act of interpellating, or of demanding of an officer an explanation of his action; imperative or peremptory questioning; a point raised in a debate..

Allow :: Allow (v. t.) To grant (something) as a deduction or an addition; esp. to abate or deduct; as, to allow a sum for leakage..

Correction :: Correction (n.) Abatement of noxious qualities; the counteraction of what is inconvenient or hurtful in its effects; as, the correction of acidity in the stomach..

Abate :: Abate (v. t.) To reduce in estimation; to deprive.

Recrudescent :: Recrudescent (a.) Breaking out again after temporary abatement or supression; as, a recrudescent epidemic..

Elumbated :: Elumbated (a.) Weak or lame in the loins.

Hoolock :: Hoolock (n.) A small black gibbon (Hylobates hoolock), found in the mountains of Assam..

Forensic :: Forensic (a.) Belonging to courts of judicature or to public discussion and debate; used in legal proceedings, or in public discussions; argumentative; rhetorical; as, forensic eloquence or disputes..

Closure :: Closure (v. t.) A method of putting an end to debate and securing an immediate vote upon a measure before a legislative body. It is similar in effect to the previous question. It was first introduced into the British House of Commons in 1882. The French word cloture was originally applied to this proceeding.

Qualify :: Qualify (v. t.) Hence, to soften; to abate; to diminish; to assuage; to reduce the strength of, as liquors..

Delibate :: Delibate (v. t.) To taste; to take a sip of; to dabble in.

Columbite :: Columbite (n.) A mineral of a black color, submetallic luster, and high specific specific gravity. It is a niobate (or columbate) of iron and manganese, containing tantalate of iron; -- first found in New England..

Reprobation :: Reprobation (n.) The predestination of a certain number of the human race as reprobates, or objects of condemnation and punishment..

Limbate :: Limbate (a.) Bordered, as when one color is surrounded by an edging of another..

Cohobated :: Cohobated (imp. & p. p.) of Cohobat.

Sustain :: Sustain (v. t.) To allow the prosecution of; to admit as valid; to sanction; to continue; not to dismiss or abate; as, the court sustained the action or suit..

Hecatompedon :: Hecatompedon (n.) A name given to the old Parthenon at Athens, because measuring 100 Greek feet, probably in the width across the stylobate..

Speaker :: Speaker (n.) One who is the mouthpiece of others; especially, one who presides over, or speaks for, a delibrative assembly, preserving order and regulating the debates; as, the Speaker of the House of Commons, originally, the mouthpiece of the House to address the king; the Speaker of a House of Representatives..

Makebate :: Makebate (n.) One who excites contentions and quarrels.

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