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A spendthrift. One who spends money profusely or improvidently; a prodigal; one who lavishes or wastes his estate. Also used figuratively.
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A temporizer. One who temporizes; one who yields to the time, or complies with the prevailing opinions, fashions, or occasions; a trimmer.
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A tribe of edentates comprising the South American ant-eaters. The tongue is long, slender, exsertile, and very flexible, whence the name.
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A turntable. A large revolving platform, for turning railroad cars, locomotives, etc., in a different direction; -- called also turnplate.
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A Utopian. An inhabitant of Utopia; hence, one who believes in the perfectibility of human society; a visionary; an idealist; an optimist.
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An artificial dyestuff obtained as an orange-yellow powder, and regarded as a phenyl hydrazine derivative of tartaric and sulphonic acids.
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An undoubted or self-evident truth; a statement which is pliantly true; a proposition needing no proof or argument; -- opposed to falsism.
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An uninhabited and uncultivated tract or region; a forest or desert; a wilderness; a waste; as, the wilds of America; the wilds of Africa.
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A doctor or teacher in the Armenian church. Members of this order of ecclesiastics frequently have charge of dioceses, with episcopal functions.
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The dabchick. A small water bird (Podilymbus podiceps), allied to the grebes, remarkable for its quickness in diving; -- called also dapchick, dobchick, dipchick, didapper, dobber, devil-diver, hell-diver, and pied-billed grebe.
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