tical

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Her experiments in homoeopathy had made her skep - tical as to material curative methods.

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  1. A weight now used in Burma and Siam, and formerly in many other places in the Indies, equal to about 230 grains troy; also, a current silver coin of Siam, worth 2s. 1d. (about 50 United States cents).

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  • If their stories had been iden­tical, I would have been suspicious. —  Kushiel’s Avatar
  • That's used on the iPhone and Touch, and that bit of technology helps the device understand its orientation, such as horizontal or ver-tical. —  TimesArgus.com: Sports
  • Some say that this war is poli­tical: Tsipi Livni and Ehud Barak trying to improve their standings in the polls, or Israel taking advantage of the last days of the Bush administration. —  JewishReview.org
  • Angles are sighted relative to ver - tical and horizontal. —  Recently Uploaded Slideshows
  • "I dare say I am too scep-tical on this kind of question And knowing Mr. Y---- as I do," said the colonel, I can add, for my part, that even were any of these phenomena to happen to himself personally, he, like Dr. Carpenter, would doubt his own eyes rather than believe What you say is a little bit exaggerated, but there is some truth in it. —  From the Caves and Jungles of Hindostan
 

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  1. Also teecal, tecul; from British Burmese tikāl, a word of obscure origin, the true Burmese word being kyat, and the Siamese word bat.
 

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