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Apt to make unexpected revelations. [Obs.] "Nature is proditorious." Sir H. Wotton.

Treacherous. [Obs.]

lity or state of being profound; depth of place, knowledge, feeling, etc. "The vast profundity obscure." Milton.

The sixth joint of a typical leg of a crustacean; usually, the penultimate joint.

The basal portion, or two proximal and more or less consolidated segments, of an appendage of a crustacean.

One employed to procure supplies, as for an army, a steamer, etc.; a purveyor; one who provides for another. Jer. Taylor.

One of the peculiar rodlike corpuscles found in the integument of certain Turbellaria. They are filled with a soft granular substance.

and religion of the Hindoos; in Cashmere, any clerk or native official. [Written also pandit.] [India]

The quality or state of being putrid.

The quality of being putrid; putrefaction; rottenness.

A subtilty; an equivocation. [Obs.] Shak. By some strange quiddit or some wrested clause. Drayton.

Quiddative.

that which answers the question, Quid est or, What is it " The degree of nullity and quiddity." Bacon. The quiddity or characteristic difference of poetry as distinguished from prose. De Quincey.

Rabidness; furiousness.

The quality or state of being rancid; a rancid scent or flavor, as of old oil. Ure.

The quality or state of being rapid; swiftness; celerity; velocity; as, the rapidity of growth or improvement.

Hidden from the mental or intellectual view; secret; abstruse; as, recondite causes of things.

A repository; a storehouse. [Obs.] Ash.

Explanation; representation. [R.] The reddition or application of the comparison. Chapman.

Answering to an interrogative or inquiry; conveying a reply; as, redditive words.