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urchin

2. an archaic or dialect name for a hedgehog

3. either of the two cylinders in a carding machine that are covered with carding cloth

4. Obsolete an elf or sprite

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At Stript Wax, there are four choices, one of which is specifically geared toward correcting discoloration.

(36) Also on 12 December, the anonymously published pamphlet Independency Stript and Whipt asserted that the Independents would use any means to kill Charles: "Why else have they so oft attempted secretly, to take away his life by poyson?" Since the Independents failed in those attempts, they now wanted to remove him from office and even kill him publicly--as they mentioned in two pamphlets, Iretons Petition and the Royall Project.

He is like a Man who were stript not only of his Cloaths, but of his skin."

Thoreau writes: Half-way over this carry, thus far in the Maine wilderness on its way to the Provinces, we noticed a large, flaming, Oak Hall hand-bill, about two feet long, wrapped round the trunk of a pine, from which the bark had been stript, and to which it was fast glued by the pitch.

sweet dreams dead memes stript of your power scripture and hour we have life of our own we have another mother these are not our words

Franklin, Printer (Like the Cover of an old Book Its contents torn out And stript of its Lettering & Gilding) Lies here, Food for Worms.

(19.) Charles Leslie, The Wolf Stript of His Shepherd's Clothing (London, 1704).

He is said to have been especially hated and dreaded by the Sufis, whose practice he ridiculed, and whose faith amounts to little more than his own when stript of its mysticism."

These are small white tablets packaged in a white blister stript.


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