Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A kind of catechu made from the fruit of the betelnut-palm, Areca Catechu, serving in India the same purposes as the true catechu.
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I had an argument with another Russian speaker a few years ago over whether raskassirovat' (as in raskassirovat' polk, to disband a regiment) is derived from caisser or its Latin predecessor, or from its (alleged) typographic meaning -- rassypat' kassu, to spill type from a case.
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