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A prickly, climbing shrub of the genus Pisonia. The fruit is a kind of berry.
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A priest devoted to the service of a particular god, from whom he received a distinguishing epithet. The most honored were those of Jupiter, Mars, and Quirinus, called respectively Flamen Dialis, Flamen Martialis, and Flamen Quirinalis.
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A privilege of setting up, and moving about, folds for sheep, in any fields within manors, in order to manure them; -- often reserved to himself by the lord of the manor.
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A process for producing a design upon a surface in relief so that it can be printed from. Prepared chalk or oxide of zinc is pressed upon a smooth plate by a hydraulic press, and the design is drawn upon this in a peculiar ink which hardens the surface wherever it is applied. The surface is then carefully rubbed or brushed, leaving the lines in relief.
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A process of reproduction intermediate between fission and gemmation.
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A process on the posterior side of the tarsometatarsus of many birds; the calcaneal process.
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A process similar to etching, in which, by means of voltaic electricity, a raised copy of a drawing is made, so that it can be used to print from.
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A process, or other element, of a vertebra developed from the ventral side of the centrum, as haemal spines, and chevron bones.
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