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One who promises or distributes public offices and their emoluments as the price of services to a party or its leaders.
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One who sequesters property, or takes the possession of it for a time, to satisfy a demand out of its rents or profits.
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The peculiar sickness, characterized by nausea and prostration, which is caused by the pitching or rolling of a vessel.
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The powan. A small British lake whitefish (Coregonus clupeoides, or C. ferus); -- called also gwyniad and lake herring.
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A compound of sucrose (or of some related carbohydrate) with some base, after the analogy of a salt; as, sodium sucrate.
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A division of arachnids having large, powerful fangs and a segmented abdomen; -- called also Solpugidea, and Solpugides.
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A marine food fish of the genus Scorpaena, as the European hogfish (S. scrofa), and the California species (S. guttata).
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A nickname given to any "poor white" living in the pine woods which cover the sandy hills in Georgia and South Carolina.
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A round-toed, armed covering for the feet, worn during a part of the sixteenth century in both military and civil dress.
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A scarecrow. Anything set up to frighten crows or other birds from cornfields; hence, anything terifying without danger.
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