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Holds Sailors Globes

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verb

• become imbued

• take up mentally

• take up, as of debts or payments

• take in, also metaphorically

• cause to become one with

• suck or take up or in

• devote (oneself) fully to

• assimilate or take in

• consume all of one's attention or time

28%7 Term for sailors or sailors' food
noun

• A salt-water crocodile (or estuarine crocodile).

• An ocean-going ship that enters the Great Lakes via the St. Lawrence Seaway.

• The saltwater fluke or dab.

27%11 Yellow blossoms resemble small globes
noun

• any of several plants of the genus Trollius having globose yellow flowers

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