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  • 51Iron works — Iron I ron ([imac] [u^]rn), a. [AS. [=i]ren, [=i]sen. See {Iron}, n.] [1913 Webster] 1. Of, or made of iron; consisting of iron; as, an iron bar, dust. [1913 Webster] 2. Resembling iron in color; as, iron blackness. [1913 Webster] 3. Like iron in …

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  • 52Proof — Proof, n. [OF. prove, proeve, F. preuve, fr. L. proba, fr. probare to prove. See {Prove}.] [1913 Webster] 1. Any effort, process, or operation designed to establish or discover a fact or truth; an act of testing; a test; a trial. [1913 Webster]… …

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  • 53Proof reader — Proof Proof, n. [OF. prove, proeve, F. preuve, fr. L. proba, fr. probare to prove. See {Prove}.] [1913 Webster] 1. Any effort, process, or operation designed to establish or discover a fact or truth; an act of testing; a test; a trial. [1913… …

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  • 54proof sheet — Proof Proof, n. [OF. prove, proeve, F. preuve, fr. L. proba, fr. probare to prove. See {Prove}.] [1913 Webster] 1. Any effort, process, or operation designed to establish or discover a fact or truth; an act of testing; a test; a trial. [1913… …

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  • 55Wait-a-while — n. (a) One of the Australian wattle trees ({Acacia colletioides}), so called from the impenetrability of the thicket which it makes. (b) same as {Wait a bit}. [Webster 1913 Suppl.] …

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  • 56thicket — noun Etymology: Middle English *thikket, from Old English thiccet, from thicce thick Date: before 12th century 1. a dense growth of shrubbery or small trees ; coppice 2. something resembling a thicket in density or impenetrability ; tangle < a&#8230; …

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  • 57Fundamental interaction — In physics, a fundamental interaction or fundamental force is a mechanism by which particles interact with each other, and which cannot be explained in terms of another interaction. Overview In the conceptual model of fundamental interactions,&#8230; …

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  • 58Satires of Juvenal — [ Frontispiece depicting Juvenal and Persius, from a volume translated by John Dryden in 1711.] The Satires are a collection of satirical poems by the Latin author Juvenal written in the late 1st and early 2nd centuries CE.Juvenal is credited&#8230; …

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  • 59Jacques Lacan — Jacques Marie Émile Lacan Full name Jacques Marie Émile Lacan Born 13 April 1901 Paris, France Died 9 September 1981(1981 09 09) (aged&#160;80) Pari …

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  • 60Psychology of torture — The psychological effects associated with torture, or the threat of torture, can be severe. The psychological suffering coupled with physical pain affects the torture subject and serves the torturer s (conscious) interests. The torturer can also&#8230; …

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