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Webster 1913 Edition

Enucleate

E-nu′cle-ate

,
Verb.
T.
[
imp. & p. p.
Enucleated
;
p. pr. & vb. n.
Enucleating
.]
[L.
enucleatus
, p. p. of
enucleare
to enucleate;
e
out +
nucleus
kernel.]
1.
To bring or peel out, as a kernel from its enveloping husks its enveloping husks or shell.
2.
(Med.)
To remove without cutting (as a tumor).
3.
To bring to light; to make clear.
Sclater (1654).

Webster 1828 Edition

Enucleate

ENU'CLEATE

,
Verb.
T.
[L. enucleo; e and nucleus, a kernel.] Properly, to take out the kernel. Hence,
1.
To clear from knots or lumps, to clear from intricacy; to disentangle.
2.
To open as a nucleus; hence, to explain; to clear from obscurity; to make manifest.

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