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Rehabilitate :: Rehabilitate (v. t.) To invest or clothe again with some right, authority, or dignity; to restore to a former capacity; to reinstate; to qualify again; to restore, as a delinquent, to a former right, rank, or privilege lost or forfeited; -- a term of civil and canon law..

Occident :: Occident (n.) The part of the horizon where the sun last appears in the evening; that part of the earth towards the sunset; the west; -- opposed to orient. Specifically, in former times, Europe as opposed to Asia; now, also, the Western hemisphere..

Periastron :: Periastron (n.) That point, in the real or apparent orbit of one star revolving around another, at which the former is nearest to the latter..

Super :: Super- () A prefix formerly much used to denote that the ingredient to the name of which it was prefixed was present in a large, or unusually large, proportion as compared with the other ingredients; as in calcium superphosphate. It has been superseded by per-, bi-, di-, acid, etc. (as peroxide, bicarbonate, disulphide, and acid sulphate), which retain the old meanings of super-, but with sharper definition. Cf. Acid, a., Bi-, Di-, and Per-..

Musar :: Musar (n.) An itinerant player on the musette, an instrument formerly common in Europe..

Reformist :: Reformist (n.) A reformer.

Choler :: Choler (n.) The bile; -- formerly supposed to be the seat and cause of irascibility.

Hilary Term :: Hilary term () Formerly, one of the four terms of the courts of common law in England, beginning on the eleventh of January and ending on the thirty-first of the same month, in each year; -- so called from the festival of St. Hilary, January 13th..

Fox :: Fox (n.) A tribe of Indians which, with the Sacs, formerly occupied the region about Green Bay, Wisconsin; -- called also Outagamies..

Albigeois :: Albigeois (n. pl.) A sect of reformers opposed to the church of Rome in the 12th centuries.

Gospeler :: Gospeler (n.) A follower of Wyclif, the first English religious reformer; hence, a Puritan..

Kansas :: Kansas (n. pl.) A tribe of Indians allied to the Winnebagoes and Osages. They formerly inhabited the region which is now the State of Kansas, but were removed to the Indian Territory..

Ranger :: Ranger (n.) One of a body of mounted troops, formerly armed with short muskets, who range over the country, and often fight on foot..

Quondam :: Quondam (a.) Having been formerly; former; sometime.

Prevarication :: Prevarication (n.) The collusion of an informer with the defendant, for the purpose of making a sham prosecution..

Sometime :: Sometime (a.) Having been formerly; former; late; whilom.

Kelp :: Kelp (n.) The calcined ashes of seaweed, -- formerly much used in the manufacture of glass, now used in the manufacture of iodine..

Approver :: Approver (n.) One who approves. Formerly, one who made proof or trial..

Margarin :: Margarin (n.) A fatty substance, extracted from animal fats and certain vegetable oils, formerly supposed to be a definite compound of glycerin and margaric acid, but now known to be simply a mixture or combination of tristearin and teipalmitin..

Instrumentist :: Instrumentist (n.) A performer on a musical instrument; an instrumentalist.

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