BOVRIL
\bˈɒvɹə͡l], \bˈɒvɹəl], \b_ˈɒ_v_ɹ_əl]\
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bov'ril, n. a registered trade-mark applied to a special meat extract. [Coined from Gr. bous, bovis, an ox, and vril, the electric fluid represented as the one common origin of the forces in matter, in Lytton's novel The Coming Race, 1871.]
By Thomas Davidson
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