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Name given to a politician whose policy it is to take advantage of, or be guided by, circumstances.
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Name given to a slight oscillatory movement noticeable in the celestial pole of the earth, due to the latter not being a perfect sphere.
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Name given to a translation of the Zendavesta in the Zend dialect for the use of the priesthood.
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Name given to an opponent to modern enlightenment as professed by the devotees of modern science and philosophy.
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Name given to asexual reproduction, that is, to reproduction of plants or animals by means of unimpregnated germs or ova.
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Name given to certain actual or virtual rulers of the different districts of France, consisting of men of different ranks, summoned together in a time of civic perplexity and trouble to advise the king, and especially the convocation of them summoned at the instance of Controller Colonne, and that assembled at the Chateau of Versailles on 22nd February 1787 to the number of a "round gross," including seven princes of the blood, and who were "organed out" nine weeks after, their debates proving ineffectual, to be recalled on the 6th November the year following, to "vanish ineffectual again on 12th December, and return no more."
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Name given to fibres of old tarry ropes sundered by teasing, and employed in caulking the seams between planks in ships; the teasing of oakum is an occupation for prisoners in jails.
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Name given to masses larger or smaller of misty light in the heavens caused by a group of stars too remote to be severally visible to the naked eye.
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Name given to the part of the heavens directly under our feet, as zenith to that directly over our head.
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