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MS. Found in a Bottle
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- Around them, on every part of the deck, lay scattered mathematical instruments of the most quaint and obsolete construction.†
*obsolete = no longer in general use because it was replaced by something better
- The cabin floor was thickly strewn with strange, iron-clasped folios, and mouldering instruments of science, and obsolete long-forgotten charts.†
Definitions:
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(1)
(obsolete) no longer in general use because it was replaced by something better
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)