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Misprofess

To make a false profession to make pretensions to skill which is not possessed

Morganatic

which it is stipulated that neither the latter nor her children shall enjoy the rank or inherit the possessions of her husband

Morphine

A bitter white crystalline alkaloid found in opium possessing strong narcotic properties and much used as an anodyne called also morphia and morphina

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Muliebrity

The state of being a woman or of possessing full womanly powers womanhood correlate of virility

Nonmetal

Any one of the set of elements which as contrasted with the metals possess produce or receive acid rather than basic properties a metalloid as oxygen sulphur and chlorine are nonmetals

VerbarOstracoda

An order of Entomostraca possessing shrimplike bodies enclosed in hard bivalve shells called also seed shrimp and mussel shrimp They were formerly referred

VerbarOstracoidea

An order of Entomostraca possessing hard bivalve shells They are of small size and swim freely about Now usually written Ostracoda

ous

An adjective suffix meaning full of abounding in having possessing the qualities of like as in gracious abounding in grace arduous full of ardor bulbous having bulbs bulblike

Women's modesty

female is writ large on her body. Young or old, intelligent or imbecile, awake or sleeping, the woman possesses a modesty capable of being outraged. Whoever uses criminal force to her with intent to outrage her modesty

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