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dotage
Dotage \Do"tage\, n. [From Dote, v. i.]
1. Feebleness or imbecility of understanding or mind,
particularly in old age; the childishness of old age;
senility; as, a venerable man, now in his dotage.
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Capable of distinguishing between the infancy and
the dotage of Greek literature. --Macaulay.
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2. Foolish utterance; drivel.
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The sapless dotages of old Paris and Salamanca. --
Milton.
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3. Excessive fondness; weak and foolish affection.
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The dotage of the nation on presbytery. -- Bp.
Burnet.
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malleable
Malleable \Mal"le*a*ble\, a. [F. mall['e]able, fr. LL. malleare
to hammer. See Malleate.]
1. Capable of being extended or shaped by beating with a
hammer, or by the pressure of rollers; -- applied to
metals.
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2. Capable of being influenced to behave as desired;
tractable; -- used mostly of children.
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Malleable iron, iron that is capable of extension or of
being shaped under the hammer; decarbonized cast iron. See
under Iron.
Malleable iron castings, articles cast from pig iron and
made malleable by heating then for several days in the
presence of some substance, as hematite, which deprives
the cast iron of some of its carbon.
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trace
Trace \Trace\, v. i.
To walk; to go; to travel. [Obs.]
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Not wont on foot with heavy arms to trace. --Spenser.
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hyerbolise
hyerbolise
v : to enlarge beyond bounds or the truth; "tended to
romanticize and exaggerate this `gracious Old South'
imagery" [syn: overstate, exaggerate, overdraw, hyperbolize,
magnify, amplify] [ant: understate]
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retort
Retort \Re*tort"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Retorted; p. pr. & vb.
n. Retorting.] [L. retortus, p. p. of retorquere; pref. re-
re- + torquere to turn twist. See Torsion, and cf.
Retort, n., 2.]
1. To bend or curve back; as, a retorted line.
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With retorted head, pruned themselves as they
floated. --Southey.
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2. To throw back; to reverberate; to reflect.
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As when his virtues, shining upon others,
Heat them and they retort that heat again
To the first giver. --Shak.
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3. To return, as an argument, accusation, censure, or
incivility; as, to retort the charge of vanity.
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And with retorted scorn his back he turned.
--Milton.
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