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  • 91The Food Defect Action Levels — The Food Defect Action Levels: Levels of natural or unavoidable defects in foods that present no health hazards for humans is a publication of the United States Food and Drug Administration s Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition[1]… …

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  • 92Spoil — Spoil, n. [Cf. OF. espoille, L. spolium.] 1. That which is taken from another by violence; especially, the plunder taken from an enemy; pillage; booty. [1913 Webster] Gentle gales, Fanning their odoriferous wings, dispense Native perfumes, and… …

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  • 93Spoil bank — Spoil Spoil, n. [Cf. OF. espoille, L. spolium.] 1. That which is taken from another by violence; especially, the plunder taken from an enemy; pillage; booty. [1913 Webster] Gentle gales, Fanning their odoriferous wings, dispense Native perfumes,… …

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  • 94The spoils system — Spoil Spoil, n. [Cf. OF. espoille, L. spolium.] 1. That which is taken from another by violence; especially, the plunder taken from an enemy; pillage; booty. [1913 Webster] Gentle gales, Fanning their odoriferous wings, dispense Native perfumes,… …

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  • 95Next Magazine (Santa Monica) — Next Magazine was an internationally distributed American music trade publication. Its primary audience was key decision makers at record labels, radio stations, retail, and artist management. Its hybrid content primarily addressed new music… …

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  • 96dragonfly — /drag euhn fluy /, n., pl. dragonflies. 1. any of numerous stout bodied, nonstinging insects of the order Odonata (suborder Anisoptera), the species of which prey on mosquitoes and other insects and are distinguished from the damselflies by… …

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  • 97slough — n. 1. Quagmire, morass, bog, fen. 2. Crust, scab, eschar. 3. Spoil, cast skin, tegument …

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  • 98spoil — I. v. a. 1. Plunder, rob, despoil, fleece, strip, ravage, waste. 2. Injure, harm, disfigure, mar, damage, ruin, destroy. 3. Steal, take, seize by violence. 4. Corrupt, vitiate, mar, ruin. II. v. n. 1. Steal, pilfer, rob. 2 …

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  • 99exuviae — n.pl. (also treated as sing.) an animal s cast skin or covering. Derivatives: exuvial adj. Etymology: L, = animal s skins, spoils of the enemy, f. exuere divest oneself of …

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  • 100Casting — Cast Cast (k[.a]st), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Cast}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Casting}.] [Cf. Dan. kaste, Icel. & Sw. kasta; perh. akin to L. {gerere} to bear, carry. E. jest.] 1. To send or drive by force; to throw; to fling; to hurl; to impel. [1913… …

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