The New York Stock Exchange started out as a coffee house.
NOCTILUCIN
Noc*ti*lu"cin, n. (Zoöl.)
Definition: A fatlike substance in certain marine animals, to which they owe their phosphorescent properties.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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INTUITIVELY
(adverb) in an intuitive manner; “inventors seem to have chosen intuitively a combination of explosive and aggressive sounds as warning signals to be used on automobiles”
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