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Mell – to mix, blend or mingle; a  heavy hammer or beetle of metal or wood; a sledgehammer.

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Mellaginous – of, pertaining to, or resembling honey.

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Nefandous – impious: abominable; very shocking to the general sense of justice or religion; unfit to be spoken of; unmentionable; execrable; atrocious, appalling.

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Scansion – analysis of verse into metrical patterns; the act of scanning; the measuring of a verse by feet in order to see whether the quantities are duly observed; distinguishing the metrical feet of a verse by emphasis, pauses, or otherwise;  the analysis of verse to show its meter; the method or practice of determining and (usually) graphically representing the metrical pattern of a line of verse.

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Screef -a layer of surface vegetation on an area of ground; a small area of ground from which the surface vegetation has been cleared, or that has otherwise been prepared for planting; valueless rubbish, waste material.

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Addubitation – the suggestion of a doubt; a doubting; insinuated doubt.

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Abluvion – a flood; substance or things that are washed off or away.

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Interdict – an authoritative prohibition; a court order forbidding and act; a negative injunction; any prohibitory act or decree of a court or administrative officer; an ecclesiastical censure or ban that prohibits people, certain  active church individuals or groups, from participating in certain rites, or that the rites and services of the church are banished from being valid in certain territories for a limited or extended time; to restrain from doing or using something; intercept and prevent the movement of; to forbid or prohibit; to nix or veto.

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Impious – not pious; lacking in reverence or proper respect; irreverent; irreligious; wanting piety; ungodly; profane; lacking due respect or dutifulness.

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Insordescent – growing in filthiness.

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Dreck – worthless, distasteful, or nonsensical material or merchandise; something of very poor quality; crap, rubbish, trash.

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Tophaceous – pertaining to, or manifesting the features of, a toph or tophus; gritty; sandy; rough; stony.

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Subnivean –  existing, living, carried out, occurring or situated under the snow.

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Hiemal – characteristic of or relating to winter; wintery.

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Frazil – soft or amorphous ice formed by the accumulation of ice crystals in water that is too turbulent to freeze solid; ice crystals  ice crystals or granules sometimes resembling slush that are formed in turbulent water, as in swift streams or rough seas; a collection of stray ice crystals that form in fast-moving water.

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Jawn – (chiefly in Philadelphia) used to refer to a thing, place, person, or event that one need not or cannot give a specific name to; a unique Philadelphian all-purpose noun that can mean anything: a thing, a type of things, a place, a quality, a concept, an event, a situation, a person; a context-dependent substitute noun, a noun that substitutes for any other noun; Philadelphia slang for anything.

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Gruntle – to put in a good humour; cause to be more favorably inclined; gain the good will of; a grunting sound; a snout; to utter small, low grunts.

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Impost– that which is imposed or levied; a tax, tribute, or duty; a charge usually of money collected by the government from people or businesses; a customs-duty; the basic curve for the definition of the dome, generated through the section of a horizontal plane with the ceiling; a block, capital, or molding from which an arch springs; the point where an arch rests on a wall or column; a block, capital, or molding from which an arch springs; the condition of such resting or meeting; a weight placed upon a horse in a handicap race.

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Gyre – a circular or spiral motion or form; a ring or circle; a circular course or motion; a ringlike system of ocean currents rotating clockwise in the Northern Hemisphere and counterclockwisein the Southern Hemisphere; to whirl; turn; gyrate; revolve.

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Abarticular – not affecting or connected to the joints; away from the joints; not articular.