Undue pretensions to skill; quackery; wheedling; empiricism.
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A claim made by a person as an offset to a claim made on him.
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A compound of chloral and formic amide used to produce sleep.
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A heater; one who, or that which, makes hot, as a stove, etc.
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A kind of buttress of masonry to strengthen a revetment wall.
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A man whose wife is unfaithful; the husband of an adulteress.
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A meteoric stone characterized by the presence of chondrules.
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A mode of harrowing crosswise, or transversely to the ridges.
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A parisan of Charles X. Of France, or of Dod Carlos of Spain.
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A piece of any structure which is fitted or framed crosswise.
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