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superl.

Specially: Having intellectual qualifications, or strong mental powers; showing ability or skill; talented; clever; powerful; as, the ablest man in the senate; an able speech.

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Hornbook

n.

The first book for children, or that from which in former times they learned their letters and rudiments; -- so called because a sheet of horn covered the small, thin board of oak, or the slip of paper, on which the alphabet, digits, and often the Lord's Prayer, were written or printed; a primer.

Hestern

a.

Alt. of Hesternal

Grammarless

a.

Without grammar.

Judiciousness

n.

The quality or state of being judicious; sagacity; sound judgment.

Macadamize

v. t.

To cover, as a road, or street, with small, broken stones, so as to form a smooth, hard, convex surface.

Feathering.

p. pr. & vb. n.

of Feather

Formalities

pl.

of Formality

Grabbling

p. pr. & vb. n.

of Grabble

Nilotic

a.

Of or pertaining to the river Nile; as, the Nilotic crocodile.

Novelized

imp. & p. p.

of Novelize

Harfang

n.

The snowy owl.

Fluke

n.

A parasitic trematode worm of several species, having a flat, lanceolate body and two suckers. Two species (Fasciola hepatica and Distoma lanceolatum) are found in the livers of sheep, and produce the disease called rot.