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1. heteroplasty<\/strong> \u2014 grafting of material from one individual onto another<\/p>\n

The result of Dr. Willoughby’s bizarre <\/em>heteroplasty was a pouch in Mr. Branchforth’s abdomen made from a sow’s ear, which, interestingly enough, he did at times use as a small coin purse.<\/em><\/p>\n

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2. sizar<\/strong> \u2014 undergraduate at Cambridge or Trinity College who received an allowance to help fund his education, and who performed certain menial tasks for the other students<\/p>\n

You can easily recognize the <\/em>sizars in your classes by their haggard and hungry look.<\/em><\/p>\n

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3. neatherd<\/strong> \u2014 cowherd<\/p>\n

Of course we are all familiar with the story of King Alfred in the <\/em>neatherd‘s cottage.<\/em><\/p>\n

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4. cenacle<\/strong> \u2014 room in which the Last Supper was held; upper chamber, room for dining or supping; group of people, clique<\/p>\n

None were permitted into our <\/em>cenacle until they had had published a letter to the editor of The Times decrying the collapse of morals.<\/em><\/p>\n

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5. pulvil<\/strong> (also pulvilio<\/strong> or pulvillio<\/strong>) \u2014 perfumed powder for wigs or the body<\/p>\n

No matter how many hogsheads of <\/em>pulvil he buried himself under, he could never entirely hide the reek of his foul tobacco.<\/em><\/p>\n

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6. dressing bell<\/strong> \u2014 bell rung as signal to begin dressing for dinner<\/p>\n

They each found the other’s idea so fascinating that they continued to argue after tea right into the evening, ignoring the <\/em>dressing bell and finally having to be dragged by Lady Day to dinner still in their sporting clothes.<\/em><\/p>\n

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7. fatuity<\/strong> \u2014 folly; idiocy<\/p>\n

And in a gentleman of his many years such love play can only be the grossest <\/em>fatuity, for what may be allowed if not condoned in a youngster is sheer madness in the aged.<\/em><\/p>\n

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8. Saturnian<\/strong> \u2014 of or relating to the god Saturn, esp. referring to the ‘golden age’ of his rule; of or relating to the planet named after the same god<\/p>\n

While he dreamed of a recrudescence of the <\/em>Saturnian age, his compatriot was working to ensure the defeat of the wheat laws.<\/em><\/p>\n

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9. saturnic<\/strong> \u2014 suffering from lead poisoning<\/p>\n

Every movement became a torture as <\/em>saturnic pain wracked her joints.<\/em><\/p>\n

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10. mullion<\/strong> \u2014 vertical bar dividing lights in a window or similar panels<\/p>\n

The massive stone <\/em>mullions in the great windows are gone now, cannibalized for stones to make more secure the huts of the nearby peasants.<\/em><\/p>\n

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1. heteroplasty \u2014 grafting of material from one individual onto another The result of Dr. Willoughby’s bizarre heteroplasty was a pouch in Mr. Branchforth’s abdomen made from a sow’s ear, which, interestingly enough, he did at times use as a small coin purse.   2. sizar \u2014 undergraduate at Cambridge or Trinity College who received … <\/p>\n

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