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from The Century Dictionary.

  • Again: formerly used like encore (which see).
  • noun In zoology, one of the anchor-shaped calcareous spicules which are attached to and protrude from the flat perforated calcareous plates in the integument of echinoderms of the genus Synapta. They are used in locomotion.

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