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An order of tailless amphibians having a slender, wormlike body with regular annulations, and usually with minute scales imbedded in the skin. The limbs are rudimentary or wanting. It includes the cæcilians. Called also Gymnophiona and

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An order of tailless amphibians having a slender, wormlike body with regular annulations, and usually with minute scales imbedded in the skin. The limbs are rudimentary or wanting. It includes the cæcilians. Called also Gymnophiona and Ophidobatrachia.

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• HAVENED
  Sheltered in a haven. Blissful havened both from joy and pain. Keats.
• CALLE
  A kind of head covering; a caul. Chaucer.
• WANTLESS
  Having no want; abundant; fruitful.
• WANTON
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  A harbor master.
• REGULARITY
  The condition or quality of being regular; as, regularity of outline; the regularity of motion.
• HAVELOCK
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• WANTWIT
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• REGULARIA
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• CALL
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• WANTONNESS
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• HAVE
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• SLENDER
  Uttered with a thin tone; -- the opposite of broad; as, the slender vowels long e and i. -- Slen"der*ly, adv. -- Slen"der*ness, n. (more info) slendre, sclendre, fr. OD. slinder thin, slender, perhaps through a French form; cf. OD. slinderen,
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• UNIVOCALLY
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• IRREGULARITY
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• PARABOLICALLY
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