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Old January 25th, 2021, 03:31 PM
'Mike Shefler' via Dixonary
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Default [Dixonary] Round 3137 vote for RAENIN

Here are 13 definitions for RAENIN, one of which came from a respectable
dictionary.
Vote for your 2 favorites no later than 10 ASM, EST, Wednesday, January 27.

1. a patent medicine in composition similar to laudanum, sold in central
and eastern Europe early in the twentieth century.

2. [Japanese] a public servant who administers community funds; a
treasurer, bursar, or tax collector.

3. whimpering.

4. a leaflike or scalelike plant part, usually small, sometimes showy or
brightly colored, and located just below a flower, a flower stalk, or
an inflorescence.

5. a complex polysaccharide occurring in certain species of mosses.

6. the chemical element that gives Scotch Whisky its 'peaty' flavor.

7. an artificial rennin substitute used in cheese making.

8. [So called from Wm. Raenin, of Edinburgh, who first proposed it.]
(Opt.) An instrument for experiments in polarization, consisting of a
rhomb of Iceland spar, which has been bisected obliquely at a certain
angle, and the two parts again joined with transparent cement, so
that the ordinary image produced by double refraction is thrown out
of the field by total reflection from the internal cemented surface,
and the extraordinary, or polarized, image alone is transmitted.

9. the third sign of the Japanese zodiac.

10. sculptures, usually small, made of volcanic stone.

11. a tree-climbing crab found in the Marshall Ialands.

12. the principle protein in corn (maize).

13. a sauce prepared from fermented fish, much used by the ancient
Romans; in 16th and 17th centuries recommended (after classical
writers) as a medicine for horses.


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