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One of a family (Falconidae) of raptorial birds, characterized by a short, hooked beak, strong claws, and powerful flight.
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One of a family (glyptodontidae) of extinct South American edentates, of which Glyptodon is the type. About twenty species are known.
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One of a fanatical sect which flourished in Europe in the 13th and 14th centuries, and maintained that flagellation was of equal virtue with baptism and the sacrament; -- called also disciplinant.
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One of a group of crystalline bodies produced by the action of ammonia on certain aldehydes.
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One of a group of squirrels, of the genera Pteromus and Sciuropterus, having parachute-like folds of skin extending from the fore to the hind legs, which enable them to make very long leaps.
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One of a group of stalked rotifers, having ciliated tentacles around the lobed disk.
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One of a hundred equal parts into which one whole is, or may be, divided; the quotient of a unit divided by a hundred.
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One of a large series of amorphous or crystalline substances, occurring very widely distributed in plants, rarely in animals, and regarded as influental agents in the formation and disposition of the sugars. They are frequently of a bitter taste, but, by the action of ferments, or of dilute acids and alkalies, always break down into some characteristic substance (acid, aldehyde, alcohol, phenole, or alkaloid) and glucose (or some other sugar); hence the name. They are of the nature of complex and compound ethers, and ethereal salts of the sugar carbohydrates.
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One of a mystical sect of the Greek Church in the fourteenth century; a quietist.
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