slovodefinícia
ias
(mass)		IAS
- International Accounting System
-ias
(gcide)		Pathopoeia \Path`o*poe"ia\, n.; pl. -ias. [NL., from Gr.
paqopoii`:a; pa`qos passion + poiei^n to make.] (Rhet.)
A speech, or figure of speech, designed to move the passion.
--Smart.
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ias
(vera)		IAS
Interactive Application System (DEC)
ias
(vera)		IAS
Internet Authentication Server (MS, Windows)
podobné slovodefinícia
alias
(mass)		alias
- známy ako, falošné meno
antialiasing
(mass)		antialiasing
- vyhladzovanieanti-aliasing
- vyhladenie
ecclesiastic
(mass)		ecclesiastic
- duchovný, cirkevný
ecclesiastical
(mass)		ecclesiastical
- kazateľský, duchovný, cirkevný
enthusiasm
(mass)		enthusiasm
- entuziazmus, nadšenie, horlivosť
ias
(mass)		IAS
- International Accounting System
acacias
(gcide)		acacia \a*ca"cia\ ([.a]*k[=a]"sh[.a] or [.a]*k[=a]"sh[i^]*[.a]),
n.; pl. E. acacias ([.a]*k[=a]"sh[.a]z), L. acaciae
([.a]*k[=a]"sh[i^]*[=e]). [L. from Gr. 'akaki`a; orig. the
name of a thorny tree found in Egypt; prob. fr. the root ak
to be sharp. See Acute.]
1. [capitalized] A genus of leguminous trees and shrubs.
Nearly 300 species are Australian or Polynesian, and have
terete or vertically compressed leaf stalks, instead of
the bipinnate leaves of the much fewer species of America,
Africa, etc. Very few are found in temperate climates.
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2. (Med.) The inspissated juice of several species of acacia;
-- called also gum acacia, and gum arabic. AS
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Acontias
(gcide)		Acontias \A*con"ti*as\, n. [NL., from Gr. ?, fr. ?, dim. ?
dart.] (Zool.)
Anciently, a snake, called dart snake; now, one of a genus
of reptiles closely allied to the lizards.
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Actias
(gcide)		Actias \Actias\ n.
1. 1 luna moths.

Syn: genus Actias
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Actias luna
(gcide)		Luna \Lu"na\, n. [L.; akin to lucere to shine. See Light, n.,
and cf. Lune.]
1. The moon.
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2. (Alchemy) Silver.
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Luna cornea (Old Chem.), horn silver, or fused silver
chloride, a tough, brown, translucent mass; -- so called
from its resemblance to horn.

Luna moth (Zool.), a very large and beautiful American moth
(Actias luna). Its wings are delicate light green, with
a stripe of purple along the front edge of the anterior
wings, the other margins being edged with pale yellow.
Each wing has a lunate spot surrounded by rings of light
yellow, blue, and black. The caterpillar commonly feeds on
the hickory, sassafras, and maple.
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Actinias
(gcide)		Actinia \Ac*tin"i*a\, n.; pl. L. Actini[ae], E. Actinias.
[Latinized fr. Gr. ?, ?, ray.] (Zool.)
(a) An animal of the class Anthozoa, and family
Actinid[ae]. From a resemblance to flowers in form
and color, they are often called animal flowers and
sea anemones. [See Polyp.].
(b) A genus in the family Actinid[ae].
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Alias
(gcide)		Alias \A"li*as\, adv. [L., fr. alius. See Else.] (Law)
(a) Otherwise; otherwise called; -- a term used in legal
proceedings to connect the different names of any one who
has gone by two or more, and whose true name is for any
cause doubtful; as, Smith, alias Simpson.
(b) At another time.
[1913 Webster]Alias \A"li*as\, n.; pl. Aliases. [L., otherwise, at another
time.] (Law)
(a) A second or further writ which is issued after a first
writ has expired without effect.
(b) Another name; an assumed name.
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Aliases
(gcide)		Alias \A"li*as\, n.; pl. Aliases. [L., otherwise, at another
time.] (Law)
(a) A second or further writ which is issued after a first
writ has expired without effect.
(b) Another name; an assumed name.
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Alopias superciliosus
(gcide)		Shark \Shark\ (sh[aum]rk), n. [Of uncertain origin; perhaps
through OF. fr. carcharus a kind of dogfish, Gr. karchari`as,
so called from its sharp teeth, fr. ka`rcharos having sharp
or jagged teeth; or perhaps named from its rapacity (cf.
Shark, v. t. & i.); cf. Corn. scarceas.]
1. (Zool.) Any one of numerous species of elasmobranch fishes
of the order Plagiostomi, found in all seas.
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Note: Some sharks, as the basking shark and the whale shark,
grow to an enormous size, the former becoming forty
feet or more, and the latter sixty feet or more, in
length. Most of them are harmless to man, but some are
exceedingly voracious. The man-eating sharks mostly
belong to the genera Carcharhinus, Carcharodon, and
related genera. They have several rows of large sharp
teeth with serrated edges, as the great white shark
(Carcharodon carcharias or Carcharodon Rondeleti)
of tropical seas, and the great blue shark
(Carcharhinus glaucus syn. Prionace glauca) of all
tropical and temperate seas. The former sometimes
becomes thirty-six feet long, and is the most voracious
and dangerous species known. The rare man-eating shark
of the United States coast (Carcharodon Atwoodi) is
thought by some to be a variety, or the young, of
Carcharodon carcharias. The dusky shark
(Carcharhinus obscurus) is a common species on the
coast of the United States of moderate size and not
dangerous. It feeds on shellfish and bottom fishes.
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Note: The original 1913 Webster also mentioned a "smaller
blue shark (C. caudatus)", but this species could not
be found mentioned on the Web (August 2002). The
following is a list of Atlantic Ocean sharks:
* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
Common and Scientific Names of Atlantic Sharks
* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
from "Our Living Oceans 1995" (published by the
National Printing Office):
NMFS. 1999. Our Living Oceans. Report on the status of
U.S. living marine resources, 1999. U.S. Dep. Commer.,
NOAA Tech. Memo. NMFS-F/SPO-41, on-line version,
http://spo.nwr.noaa.gov/olo99.htm.
(the following list is found at at
http://spo.nwr.noaa.gov/app5.pdf)
(1) Pelagic Sharks
Thresher shark (Alopias vulpinus)
Bigeye thresher (Alopias superciliosus)
Oceanic whitetip shark (Carcharhinus longimanus)
Sevengill shark (Heptrachias perlo)
Sixgill shark (Hexanchus griseus)
Bigeye sixgill shark (Hexanchus vitulus)
Shortfin mako (Isurus oxyrinchus)
Longfin mako (Isurus paucus)
Porbeagle (Lamna nasus)
Blue shark (Prionace glauca)
(2)Large Coastal Sharks
Sandbar shark (Carcharhinus plumbeus)
Reef shark (Carcharhinus perezi)
Blacktip shark (Carcharhinus limbatus)
Dusky shark (Carcharhinus obscurus)
Spinner shark (Carcharhinus brevipinna)
Silky shark (Carcharhinus falciformis)
Bull shark (Carcharhinus leucas)
Bignose shark (Carcharhinus altimus)
Galapagos shark (Carcharhinus galapagensis)
Night shark (Carcharhinus signatus)
White shark (Carcharodon carcharias)
Basking shark (Cetorhinus maximus)
Tiger shark (Galeocerdo cuvier)
Nurse shark (Ginglymostoma cirratum)
Lemon shark (Negaprion brevirostris)
Ragged-tooth shark (Odontaspis ferox)
Whale shark (Rhincodon typus)
Scalloped hammerhead (Sphyrna lewini)
Great hammerhead (Sphyrna mokarran)
Smooth hammerhead (Sphyrna zygaena)
(3) Small Coastal Sharks
Finetooth shark (Carcharhinus isodon)
Blacknose shark (Carcharhinus acronotus)
Atlantic sharpnose shark (Rhizoprionodon erraenovae)
Caribbean sharpnose shark (Rhizoprionodon porosus)
Bonnethead (Sphyrna tiburo)
Atlantic angel shark (Squatina dumeril)
[PJC]

2. A rapacious, artful person; a sharper. [Colloq.]
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3. Trickery; fraud; petty rapine; as, to live upon the shark.
[Obs.] --South.
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Basking shark, Liver shark, Nurse shark, Oil shark,
Sand shark, Tiger shark, etc. See under Basking,
Liver, etc. See also Dogfish, Houndfish,
Notidanian, and Tope.

Gray shark, the sand shark.

Hammer-headed shark. See Hammerhead.

Port Jackson shark. See Cestraciont.

Shark barrow, the eggcase of a shark; a sea purse.

Shark ray. Same as Angel fish
(a), under Angel.

Thrasher shark or Thresher shark, a large, voracious
shark. See Thrasher.

Whale shark, a huge harmless shark (Rhinodon typicus) of
the Indian Ocean. It becomes sixty feet or more in length,
but has very small teeth.
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Alopias vulpes
(gcide)		Thrasher \Thrash"er\, Thresher \Thresh"er\, n.
1. One who, or that which, thrashes grain; a thrashing
machine.
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2. (Zool.) A large and voracious shark (Alopias vulpes),
remarkable for the great length of the upper lobe of its
tail, with which it beats, or thrashes, its prey. It is
found both upon the American and the European coasts.
Called also fox shark, sea ape, sea fox, slasher,
swingle-tail, and thrasher shark.
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3. (Zool.) A name given to the brown thrush and other allied
species. See Brown thrush.
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Sage thrasher. (Zool.) See under Sage.

Thrasher whale (Zool.), the common killer of the Atlantic.
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Alopias vulpinus
(gcide)		Shark \Shark\ (sh[aum]rk), n. [Of uncertain origin; perhaps
through OF. fr. carcharus a kind of dogfish, Gr. karchari`as,
so called from its sharp teeth, fr. ka`rcharos having sharp
or jagged teeth; or perhaps named from its rapacity (cf.
Shark, v. t. & i.); cf. Corn. scarceas.]
1. (Zool.) Any one of numerous species of elasmobranch fishes
of the order Plagiostomi, found in all seas.
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Note: Some sharks, as the basking shark and the whale shark,
grow to an enormous size, the former becoming forty
feet or more, and the latter sixty feet or more, in
length. Most of them are harmless to man, but some are
exceedingly voracious. The man-eating sharks mostly
belong to the genera Carcharhinus, Carcharodon, and
related genera. They have several rows of large sharp
teeth with serrated edges, as the great white shark
(Carcharodon carcharias or Carcharodon Rondeleti)
of tropical seas, and the great blue shark
(Carcharhinus glaucus syn. Prionace glauca) of all
tropical and temperate seas. The former sometimes
becomes thirty-six feet long, and is the most voracious
and dangerous species known. The rare man-eating shark
of the United States coast (Carcharodon Atwoodi) is
thought by some to be a variety, or the young, of
Carcharodon carcharias. The dusky shark
(Carcharhinus obscurus) is a common species on the
coast of the United States of moderate size and not
dangerous. It feeds on shellfish and bottom fishes.
[1913 Webster]

Note: The original 1913 Webster also mentioned a "smaller
blue shark (C. caudatus)", but this species could not
be found mentioned on the Web (August 2002). The
following is a list of Atlantic Ocean sharks:
* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
Common and Scientific Names of Atlantic Sharks
* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
from "Our Living Oceans 1995" (published by the
National Printing Office):
NMFS. 1999. Our Living Oceans. Report on the status of
U.S. living marine resources, 1999. U.S. Dep. Commer.,
NOAA Tech. Memo. NMFS-F/SPO-41, on-line version,
http://spo.nwr.noaa.gov/olo99.htm.
(the following list is found at at
http://spo.nwr.noaa.gov/app5.pdf)
(1) Pelagic Sharks
Thresher shark (Alopias vulpinus)
Bigeye thresher (Alopias superciliosus)
Oceanic whitetip shark (Carcharhinus longimanus)
Sevengill shark (Heptrachias perlo)
Sixgill shark (Hexanchus griseus)
Bigeye sixgill shark (Hexanchus vitulus)
Shortfin mako (Isurus oxyrinchus)
Longfin mako (Isurus paucus)
Porbeagle (Lamna nasus)
Blue shark (Prionace glauca)
(2)Large Coastal Sharks
Sandbar shark (Carcharhinus plumbeus)
Reef shark (Carcharhinus perezi)
Blacktip shark (Carcharhinus limbatus)
Dusky shark (Carcharhinus obscurus)
Spinner shark (Carcharhinus brevipinna)
Silky shark (Carcharhinus falciformis)
Bull shark (Carcharhinus leucas)
Bignose shark (Carcharhinus altimus)
Galapagos shark (Carcharhinus galapagensis)
Night shark (Carcharhinus signatus)
White shark (Carcharodon carcharias)
Basking shark (Cetorhinus maximus)
Tiger shark (Galeocerdo cuvier)
Nurse shark (Ginglymostoma cirratum)
Lemon shark (Negaprion brevirostris)
Ragged-tooth shark (Odontaspis ferox)
Whale shark (Rhincodon typus)
Scalloped hammerhead (Sphyrna lewini)
Great hammerhead (Sphyrna mokarran)
Smooth hammerhead (Sphyrna zygaena)
(3) Small Coastal Sharks
Finetooth shark (Carcharhinus isodon)
Blacknose shark (Carcharhinus acronotus)
Atlantic sharpnose shark (Rhizoprionodon erraenovae)
Caribbean sharpnose shark (Rhizoprionodon porosus)
Bonnethead (Sphyrna tiburo)
Atlantic angel shark (Squatina dumeril)
[PJC]

2. A rapacious, artful person; a sharper. [Colloq.]
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3. Trickery; fraud; petty rapine; as, to live upon the shark.
[Obs.] --South.
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Basking shark, Liver shark, Nurse shark, Oil shark,
Sand shark, Tiger shark, etc. See under Basking,
Liver, etc. See also Dogfish, Houndfish,
Notidanian, and Tope.

Gray shark, the sand shark.

Hammer-headed shark. See Hammerhead.

Port Jackson shark. See Cestraciont.

Shark barrow, the eggcase of a shark; a sea purse.

Shark ray. Same as Angel fish
(a), under Angel.

Thrasher shark or Thresher shark, a large, voracious
shark. See Thrasher.

Whale shark, a huge harmless shark (Rhinodon typicus) of
the Indian Ocean. It becomes sixty feet or more in length,
but has very small teeth.
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Amphiaster
(gcide)		Amphiaster \Am"phi*as`ter\, n. [NL., fr. Gr. 'amfi` + 'asth`r a
star.] (Biol.)
The achromatic figure, formed in mitotic cell-division,
consisting of two asters connected by a spindle-shaped bundle
of rodlike fibers diverging from each aster, and called the
spindle.
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ancylostomiasis
(gcide)		ankylostomiasis \an`ky*los*to*mi"a*sis\, ancylostomiasis

\an`cy*los*to*mi"a*sis\([a^][ng]`k[i^]*l[o^]s*t[-o]*m[imac]"[.a]*s[i^]s),
n. [NL., fr. Ankylostoma, var. of Agchylostoma, generic name
of one genus of the parasitic nematodes.] (Med.)
A disease caused by the hookworm parasites of the genus
Ancylostoma (especially Ancylostoma duodenale), and
Necator americanus. Typically, infection in humans occurs
in the small intestine. In the small intestine they suck the
blood from the wall and, when present in large numbers,
produce a severe anaemia. Called also miner's anaemia,
tunnel disease, brickmaker's anaemia, {Egyptian
chlorosis}.
[Webster 1913 Suppl. + AS]
ankylostomiasis
(gcide)		ankylostomiasis \an`ky*los*to*mi"a*sis\, ancylostomiasis

\an`cy*los*to*mi"a*sis\([a^][ng]`k[i^]*l[o^]s*t[-o]*m[imac]"[.a]*s[i^]s),
n. [NL., fr. Ankylostoma, var. of Agchylostoma, generic name
of one genus of the parasitic nematodes.] (Med.)
A disease caused by the hookworm parasites of the genus
Ancylostoma (especially Ancylostoma duodenale), and
Necator americanus. Typically, infection in humans occurs
in the small intestine. In the small intestine they suck the
blood from the wall and, when present in large numbers,
produce a severe anaemia. Called also miner's anaemia,
tunnel disease, brickmaker's anaemia, {Egyptian
chlorosis}.
[Webster 1913 Suppl. + AS]
Antiasthmatic
(gcide)		Antiasthmatic \An`ti*asth*mat"ic\, a. & n.
Same as Antasthmatic.
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Aporias
(gcide)		Aporia \A*po"ri*a\, n.; pl. Aporias. [L., doubt, Gr. ?, fr. ?
without passage, at a loss; 'a priv. + ? passage.] (Rhet.)
A figure in which the speaker professes to be at a loss what
course to pursue, where to begin to end, what to say, etc.
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Ardea herodias
(gcide)		Crane \Crane\ (kr[=a]n), n. [AS. cran; akin to D. & LG. craan,
G. kranich, krahn (this in sense 2), Gr. ge`ranos, L. grus,
W. & Armor. garan, OSlav. zerav[i^], Lith. gerve, Icel.
trani, Sw. trana, Dan. trane. [root]24. Cf. Geranium.]
1. (Zool.) A wading bird of the genus Grus, and allied
genera, of various species, having a long, straight bill,
and long legs and neck.
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Note: The common European crane is Grus cinerea. The
sand-hill crane (Grus Mexicana) and the whooping
crane (Grus Americana) are large American species.
The Balearic or crowned crane is Balearica pavonina.
The name is sometimes erroneously applied to the herons
and cormorants.
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2. Any arm which swings about a vertical axis at one end,
used for supporting a suspended weight.
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3. A machine for raising and lowering heavy weights, and,
while holding them suspended, transporting them through a
limited lateral distance. In one form it consists of a
projecting arm or jib of timber or iron, a rotating post
or base, and the necessary tackle, windlass, etc.; -- so
called from a fancied similarity between its arm and the
neck of a crane See Illust. of Derrick.
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4. An iron arm with horizontal motion, attached to the side
or back of a fireplace, for supporting kettles, etc., over
a fire.
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5. A siphon, or bent pipe, for drawing liquors out of a cask.
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6. (Naut.) A forked post or projecting bracket to support
spars, etc., -- generally used in pairs. See Crotch, 2.
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7. (Zool.) The American blue heron (Ardea herodias).
[Local, U. S.]
[Webster 1913 Suppl.]

Crane fly (Zool.), a dipterous insect with long legs, of
the genus Tipula.

Derrick crane. See Derrick.

Gigantic crane. (Zool.) See Adjutant, n., 3.

Traveling crane, Traveler crane, Traversing crane
(Mach.), a crane mounted on wheels; esp., an overhead
crane consisting of a crab or other hoisting apparatus
traveling on rails or beams fixed overhead, as in a
machine shop or foundry.

Water crane, a kind of hydrant with a long swinging spout,
for filling locomotive tenders, water carts, etc., with
water.
[1913 Webster]Heron \Her"on\, n. [OE. heiroun, heroun, heron, hern, OF.
hairon, F. h['e]ron, OHG. heigir; cf. Icel. hegri, Dan.
heire, Sw. h[aum]ger, and also G. h[aum]her jay, jackdaw,
OHG. hehara, higere, woodpecker, magpie, D. reiger heron, G.
reiher, AS. hr[=a]gra. Cf. Aigret, Egret.] (Zool.)
Any wading bird of the genus Ardea and allied genera, of
the family Ardeid[ae]. The herons have a long, sharp bill,
and long legs and toes, with the claw of the middle toe
toothed. The common European heron (Ardea cinerea) is
remarkable for its directly ascending flight, and was
formerly hunted with the larger falcons.
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Note: There are several common American species; as, the
great blue heron (Ardea herodias); the little blue
(Ardea c[oe]rulea); the green (Ardea virescens);
the snowy (Ardea candidissima); the night heron or
qua-bird (Nycticorax nycticorax). The plumed herons
are called egrets.
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Heron's bill (Bot.), a plant of the genus Erodium; -- so
called from the fancied resemblance of the fruit to the
head and beak of the heron.
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Ascariasis
(gcide)		Ascariasis \As`ca*ri"a*sis\, n. [NL., fr. Gr. ? an intestinal
worm.] (Med.)
A disease, usually accompanied by colicky pains and diarrhea,
caused by the presence of ascarids in the gastrointestinal
canal.
[Webster 1913 Suppl.]
Asclepias
(gcide)		Asclepias \As*cle"pi*as\, n. [L., fr. Gr. ?, named from
Asclepios or Aesculapius.] (Bot.)
A genus of plants including the milkweed, swallowwort, and
some other species having medicinal properties.
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Asclepias butterfly (Zool.), a large, handsome, red and
black butterfly (Danais Archippus), found in both
hemispheres. It feeds on plants of the genus Asclepias.
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Asclepias butterfly
(gcide)		Asclepias \As*cle"pi*as\, n. [L., fr. Gr. ?, named from
Asclepios or Aesculapius.] (Bot.)
A genus of plants including the milkweed, swallowwort, and
some other species having medicinal properties.
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Asclepias butterfly (Zool.), a large, handsome, red and
black butterfly (Danais Archippus), found in both
hemispheres. It feeds on plants of the genus Asclepias.
[1913 Webster]Butterfly \But"ter*fly`\, n.; pl. Butterflies. [Perh. from the
color of a yellow species. AS. buter-fl[=e]ge,
buttor-fle['o]ge; cf. G. butterfliege, D. botervlieg. See
Butter, and Fly.] (Zool.)
A general name for the numerous species of diurnal
Lepidoptera.

Note: [See Illust. under Aphrodite.]
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Asclepias butterfly. See under Asclepias.

Butterfly fish (Zool.), the ocellated blenny ({Blennius
ocellaris}) of Europe. See Blenny. The term is also
applied to the flying gurnard.

Butterfly shell (Zool.), a shell of the genus Voluta.

Butterfly valve (Mech.), a kind of double clack valve,
consisting of two semicircular clappers or wings hinged to
a cross rib in the pump bucket. When open it somewhat
resembles a butterfly in shape.
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Asclepias Curassavica
(gcide)		Ipecacuanha \Ip`e*cac`u*an"ha\
([i^]p`[-e]*k[a^]k`[-u]*[a^]n"[.a]), n. [Pg. ipecacuanha (cf.
Sp. ipecacuana); fr. Braz. ipe-kaa-guena, prop., a creeping
plant that causes vomiting.] (Med. & Bot.)
The root of a Brazilian rubiaceous herb ({Cepha["e]lis
Ipecacuanha}), largely employed as an emetic; also, the plant
itself; also, a medicinal extract of the root. Many other
plants are used as a substitutes; among them are the black or
Peruvian ipecac (Psychotria emetica), the white ipecac
(Ionidium Ipecacuanha), the bastard or wild ipecac
(Asclepias Curassavica), and the undulated ipecac
(Richardsonia scabra).
[1913 Webster]Redhead \Red"head`\ (-h?d`), n.
1. A person having red hair.
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2. (Zool.)
(a) An American duck (Aythya Americana) highly esteemed
as a game bird. It is closely allied to the
canvasback, but is smaller and its head brighter red.
Called also red-headed duck. American poachard,
grayback, and fall duck. See Illust. under
Poachard.
(b) The red-headed woodpecker. See Woodpecker.
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3. (Bot.) A kind of milkweed (Asclepias Curassavica) with
red flowers. It is used in medicine.
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Asclepias tuberosa
(gcide)		Pleurisy \Pleu"ri*sy\, n. [F. pleur['e]sie, L. pleurisis,
pleuritis, Gr pleyri^tis (sc. no`sos), fr. pleyra` rib,
side.] (Med.)
An inflammation of the pleura, usually accompanied with
fever, pain, difficult respiration, and cough, and with
exudation into the pleural cavity.
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Pleurisy root. (Bot.)
(a) The large tuberous root of a kind of milkweed ({Asclepias
tuberosa}) which is used as a remedy for pleuritic and
other diseases.
(b) The plant itself, which has deep orange-colored flowers;
-- called also butterfly weed.
[1913 Webster]chiggerflower \chiggerflower\ n.
an erect perennial of eastern and southern U. S. ({Asclepias
tuberosa}) having showy orange flowers.

Syn: butterfly weed, orange milkweed, pleurisy root, tuber
root, Indian paintbrush, Asclepias tuberosa.
[WordNet 1.5]
Asterias
(gcide)		Asterias \As*te"ri*as\, n. [NL., fr. Gr. ? starred, fr. 'asth`r
star.] (Zool.)
A genus of echinoderms.
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Note: Formerly the group of this name included nearly all
starfishes and ophiurans. Now it is restricted to a
genus including the commonest shore starfishes.
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Asterias rubens
(gcide)		Five-finger \Five"-fin`ger\ (f[imac]v"-f[i^][ng]`g[~e]r), n.
1. (Bot.) See Cinquefoil.
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2. (Zool.) A starfish with five rays, esp. Asterias rubens.
[1913 Webster]Devil \Dev"il\, n. [AS. de['o]fol, de['o]ful; akin to G. ?eufel,
Goth. diaba['u]lus; all fr. L. diabolus the devil, Gr. ? the
devil, the slanderer, fr. ? to slander, calumniate, orig., to
throw across; ? across + ? to throw, let fall, fall; cf. Skr.
gal to fall. Cf. Diabolic.]
1. The Evil One; Satan, represented as the tempter and
spiritual of mankind.
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[Jesus] being forty days tempted of the devil.
--Luke iv. 2.
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That old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, which
deceiveth the whole world. --Rev. xii. 9.
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2. An evil spirit; a demon.
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A dumb man possessed with a devil. --Matt. ix.
32.
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3. A very wicked person; hence, any great evil. "That devil
Glendower." "The devil drunkenness." --Shak.
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Have not I chosen you twelve, and one of you is a
devil? --John vi. 70.
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4. An expletive of surprise, vexation, or emphasis, or,
ironically, of negation. [Low]
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The devil a puritan that he is, . . . but a
timepleaser. --Shak.
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The things, we know, are neither rich nor rare,
But wonder how the devil they got there. --Pope.
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5. (Cookery) A dish, as a bone with the meat, broiled and
excessively peppered; a grill with Cayenne pepper.
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Men and women busy in baking, broiling, roasting
oysters, and preparing devils on the gridiron. --Sir
W. Scott.
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6. (Manuf.) A machine for tearing or cutting rags, cotton,
etc.
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Blue devils. See under Blue.

Cartesian devil. See under Cartesian.

Devil bird (Zool.), one of two or more South African drongo
shrikes (Edolius retifer, and Edolius remifer),
believed by the natives to be connected with sorcery.

Devil may care, reckless, defiant of authority; -- used
adjectively. --Longfellow.

Devil's apron (Bot.), the large kelp ({Laminaria
saccharina}, and Laminaria longicruris) of the Atlantic
ocean, having a blackish, leathery expansion, shaped
somewhat like an apron.

Devil's coachhorse. (Zool.)
(a) The black rove beetle (Ocypus olens). [Eng.]
(b) A large, predacious, hemipterous insect ({Prionotus
cristatus}); the wheel bug. [U.S.]

Devil's darning-needle. (Zool.) See under Darn, v. t.

Devil's fingers, Devil's hand (Zool.), the common British
starfish (Asterias rubens); -- also applied to a sponge
with stout branches. [Prov. Eng., Irish & Scot.]

Devil's riding-horse (Zool.), the American mantis ({Mantis
Carolina}).

The Devil's tattoo, a drumming with the fingers or feet.
"Jack played the Devil's tattoo on the door with his boot
heels." --F. Hardman (Blackw. Mag.).

Devil worship, worship of the power of evil; -- still
practiced by barbarians who believe that the good and evil
forces of nature are of equal power.

Printer's devil, the youngest apprentice in a printing
office, who runs on errands, does dirty work (as washing
the ink rollers and sweeping), etc. "Without fearing the
printer's devil or the sheriff's officer." --Macaulay.

Tasmanian devil (Zool.), a very savage carnivorous
marsupial of Tasmania (Dasyurus ursinus syn. {Diabolus
ursinus}).

To play devil with, to molest extremely; to ruin. [Low]
[1913 Webster]But-thorn \But"-thorn`\, n. (Zool.)
The common European starfish (Asterias rubens).
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Autoschediastic
(gcide)		Autoschediastic \Au`to*sche`di*as"tic\
([add]`t[-o]*sk[=e]`d[i^]*[a^]s"t[i^]k), Autoschediastical
\Au`to*sche`di*as"tic*al\ (-[a^]s"t[i^]*kal), a. [Auto- + Gr.
schedia`zein to do hastily. See Schediasm.]
Extemporary; offhand. [R.] --Dean Martin.
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Autoschediastical
(gcide)		Autoschediastic \Au`to*sche`di*as"tic\
([add]`t[-o]*sk[=e]`d[i^]*[a^]s"t[i^]k), Autoschediastical
\Au`to*sche`di*as"tic*al\ (-[a^]s"t[i^]*kal), a. [Auto- + Gr.
schedia`zein to do hastily. See Schediasm.]
Extemporary; offhand. [R.] --Dean Martin.
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Bias
(gcide)		Bias \Bi"as\, a.
1. Inclined to one side; swelled on one side. [Obs.] --Shak.
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2. Cut slanting or diagonally, as cloth.
[1913 Webster]Bias \Bi"as\, adv.
In a slanting manner; crosswise; obliquely; diagonally; as,
to cut cloth bias.
[1913 Webster]Bias \Bi"as\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Biased (b[imac]"ast); p. pr.
& vb. n. Biasing.]
To incline to one side; to give a particular direction to; to
influence; to prejudice; to prepossess.
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Me it had not biased in the one direction, nor should
it have biased any just critic in the counter
direction. --De Quincey.
[1913 Webster]Bias \Bi"as\ (b[imac]"as), n.; pl. Biases (-[e^]z). [F.
biasis, perh. fr. LL. bifax two-faced; L. bis + facies face.
See Bi-, and cf. Face.]
1. A weight on the side of the ball used in the game of
bowls, or a tendency imparted to the ball, which turns it
from a straight line.
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Being ignorant that there is a concealed bias within
the spheroid, which will . . . swerve away. --Sir W.
Scott.
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2. A leaning of the mind; propensity or prepossession toward
an object or view, not leaving the mind indifferent; bent;
inclination.
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Strong love is a bias upon the thoughts. --South.
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Morality influences men's lives, and gives a bias to
all their actions. --Locke.
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3. A wedge-shaped piece of cloth taken out of a garment (as
the waist of a dress) to diminish its circumference.
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4. A slant; a diagonal; as, to cut cloth on the bias.
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Syn: Prepossession; prejudice; partiality; inclination. See
Bent.
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bias catacorner cata-cornered catercorner cater-cornered catty-corner catty-cornered diagonal kitty-corner kitty-cornered oblique skew skewed slanted
(gcide)		nonparallel \nonparallel\ adj.
1. not parallel; -- of lines or linear objects. Opposite of
parallel. [Narrower terms: {bias, catacorner,
cata-cornered, catercorner, cater-cornered, catty-corner,
catty-cornered, diagonal, kitty-corner, kitty-cornered,
oblique, skew, skewed, slanted ; {crossed, decussate,
intersectant, intersecting}; cross-grained ; {diagonal;
{orthogonal, orthographic, rectangular, right-angled ;
right, perpendicular; angled ; {convergent] Also See:
convergent, divergent, diverging.
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2. (Computers) Not using parallel processing; -- of
computers. [Narrower terms: serial] PJC]
Biased
(gcide)		Bias \Bi"as\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Biased (b[imac]"ast); p. pr.
& vb. n. Biasing.]
To incline to one side; to give a particular direction to; to
influence; to prejudice; to prepossess.
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Me it had not biased in the one direction, nor should
it have biased any just critic in the counter
direction. --De Quincey.
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Biases
(gcide)		Bias \Bi"as\ (b[imac]"as), n.; pl. Biases (-[e^]z). [F.
biasis, perh. fr. LL. bifax two-faced; L. bis + facies face.
See Bi-, and cf. Face.]
1. A weight on the side of the ball used in the game of
bowls, or a tendency imparted to the ball, which turns it
from a straight line.
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Being ignorant that there is a concealed bias within
the spheroid, which will . . . swerve away. --Sir W.
Scott.
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2. A leaning of the mind; propensity or prepossession toward
an object or view, not leaving the mind indifferent; bent;
inclination.
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Strong love is a bias upon the thoughts. --South.
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Morality influences men's lives, and gives a bias to
all their actions. --Locke.
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3. A wedge-shaped piece of cloth taken out of a garment (as
the waist of a dress) to diminish its circumference.
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4. A slant; a diagonal; as, to cut cloth on the bias.
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Syn: Prepossession; prejudice; partiality; inclination. See
Bent.
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Biasing
(gcide)		Bias \Bi"as\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Biased (b[imac]"ast); p. pr.
& vb. n. Biasing.]
To incline to one side; to give a particular direction to; to
influence; to prejudice; to prepossess.
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Me it had not biased in the one direction, nor should
it have biased any just critic in the counter
direction. --De Quincey.
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Caecias
(gcide)		Caecias \C[ae]"ci*as\, n. [L. caecias, Gr. ?.]
A wind from the northeast. --Milton.
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candidiasis
(gcide)		candidiasis \candidiasis\ n.
an infection caused by fungi of the genera Monilia or
Candida, especially Candida albicans.

Syn: moniliasis, monilia disease.
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Capias
(gcide)		Capias \Ca"pi*as\, n. [L. thou mayst take.] (Low)
A writ or process commanding the officer to take the body of
the person named in it, that is, to arrest him; -- also
called writ of capias.
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Note: One principal kind of capias is a writ by which actions
at law are frequently commenced; another is a writ of
execution issued after judgment to satisfy damages
recovered; a capias in criminal law is the process to
take a person charged on an indictment, when he is not
in custody. --Burrill. Wharton.
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Carcharias
(gcide)		Carcharias \Carcharias\ prop. n.
The type and sole genus of Carchariidae; the sand sharks.

Syn: genus Carcharias, Odontaspis, genus Odontaspis.
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Carcharodon carcharias
(gcide)		Great White shark \Great White shark\
a large shark (Carcharodon carcharias, class Chondrichtyes)
usually found in warm seas. When young it is bluish but it
becomes white with age. It grows to over 15 feet in length
and is feared as a man-eater. Also called white shark and
great white.
[PJC]Shark \Shark\ (sh[aum]rk), n. [Of uncertain origin; perhaps
through OF. fr. carcharus a kind of dogfish, Gr. karchari`as,
so called from its sharp teeth, fr. ka`rcharos having sharp
or jagged teeth; or perhaps named from its rapacity (cf.
Shark, v. t. & i.); cf. Corn. scarceas.]
1. (Zool.) Any one of numerous species of elasmobranch fishes
of the order Plagiostomi, found in all seas.
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Note: Some sharks, as the basking shark and the whale shark,
grow to an enormous size, the former becoming forty
feet or more, and the latter sixty feet or more, in
length. Most of them are harmless to man, but some are
exceedingly voracious. The man-eating sharks mostly
belong to the genera Carcharhinus, Carcharodon, and
related genera. They have several rows of large sharp
teeth with serrated edges, as the great white shark
(Carcharodon carcharias or Carcharodon Rondeleti)
of tropical seas, and the great blue shark
(Carcharhinus glaucus syn. Prionace glauca) of all
tropical and temperate seas. The former sometimes
becomes thirty-six feet long, and is the most voracious
and dangerous species known. The rare man-eating shark
of the United States coast (Carcharodon Atwoodi) is
thought by some to be a variety, or the young, of
Carcharodon carcharias. The dusky shark
(Carcharhinus obscurus) is a common species on the
coast of the United States of moderate size and not
dangerous. It feeds on shellfish and bottom fishes.
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Note: The original 1913 Webster also mentioned a "smaller
blue shark (C. caudatus)", but this species could not
be found mentioned on the Web (August 2002). The
following is a list of Atlantic Ocean sharks:
* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
Common and Scientific Names of Atlantic Sharks
* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
from "Our Living Oceans 1995" (published by the
National Printing Office):
NMFS. 1999. Our Living Oceans. Report on the status of
U.S. living marine resources, 1999. U.S. Dep. Commer.,
NOAA Tech. Memo. NMFS-F/SPO-41, on-line version,
http://spo.nwr.noaa.gov/olo99.htm.
(the following list is found at at
http://spo.nwr.noaa.gov/app5.pdf)
(1) Pelagic Sharks
Thresher shark (Alopias vulpinus)
Bigeye thresher (Alopias superciliosus)
Oceanic whitetip shark (Carcharhinus longimanus)
Sevengill shark (Heptrachias perlo)
Sixgill shark (Hexanchus griseus)
Bigeye sixgill shark (Hexanchus vitulus)
Shortfin mako (Isurus oxyrinchus)
Longfin mako (Isurus paucus)
Porbeagle (Lamna nasus)
Blue shark (Prionace glauca)
(2)Large Coastal Sharks
Sandbar shark (Carcharhinus plumbeus)
Reef shark (Carcharhinus perezi)
Blacktip shark (Carcharhinus limbatus)
Dusky shark (Carcharhinus obscurus)
Spinner shark (Carcharhinus brevipinna)
Silky shark (Carcharhinus falciformis)
Bull shark (Carcharhinus leucas)
Bignose shark (Carcharhinus altimus)
Galapagos shark (Carcharhinus galapagensis)
Night shark (Carcharhinus signatus)
White shark (Carcharodon carcharias)
Basking shark (Cetorhinus maximus)
Tiger shark (Galeocerdo cuvier)
Nurse shark (Ginglymostoma cirratum)
Lemon shark (Negaprion brevirostris)
Ragged-tooth shark (Odontaspis ferox)
Whale shark (Rhincodon typus)
Scalloped hammerhead (Sphyrna lewini)
Great hammerhead (Sphyrna mokarran)
Smooth hammerhead (Sphyrna zygaena)
(3) Small Coastal Sharks
Finetooth shark (Carcharhinus isodon)
Blacknose shark (Carcharhinus acronotus)
Atlantic sharpnose shark (Rhizoprionodon erraenovae)
Caribbean sharpnose shark (Rhizoprionodon porosus)
Bonnethead (Sphyrna tiburo)
Atlantic angel shark (Squatina dumeril)
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2. A rapacious, artful person; a sharper. [Colloq.]
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3. Trickery; fraud; petty rapine; as, to live upon the shark.
[Obs.] --South.
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Basking shark, Liver shark, Nurse shark, Oil shark,
Sand shark, Tiger shark, etc. See under Basking,
Liver, etc. See also Dogfish, Houndfish,
Notidanian, and Tope.

Gray shark, the sand shark.

Hammer-headed shark. See Hammerhead.

Port Jackson shark. See Cestraciont.

Shark barrow, the eggcase of a shark; a sea purse.

Shark ray. Same as Angel fish
(a), under Angel.

Thrasher shark or Thresher shark, a large, voracious
shark. See Thrasher.

Whale shark, a huge harmless shark (Rhinodon typicus) of
the Indian Ocean. It becomes sixty feet or more in length,
but has very small teeth.
[1913 Webster]man-eating shark \man-eating shark\ n.
A term applied to sharks that attack humans, especially the
great white shark (Carcharodon carcharias), a large
aggressive shark widespread in warm seas.

Syn: great white shark, white shark, man-eater, {Carcharodon
carcharias}.
[WordNet 1.5]Man-eater \Man"-eat`er\, n. (Zool.)
One who, or that which, has an appetite for human flesh;
specifically, one of certain large sharks (esp. {Carcharodon
carcharias} syn. Carcharodon Rondeleti); also, a lion or a
tiger which has acquired the habit of feeding upon human
flesh.
[1913 Webster]Requin \Re"quin\ (r?"kw?n), n. [F., fr. reqiem a Mass sung for
the dead. See Requiem.] (Zool.)
The man-eater, or white shark (Carcharodon carcharias); --
so called on account of its causing requiems to be sung.
[1913 Webster]Carcharodon \Carcharodon\ prop. n.
A genus of sharks including man-eating sharks, such as the
great white shark, Carcharodon carcharias.

Syn: genus Carcharodon.
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