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Cachalot
Webster's Dictionary
(n.) The sperm whale (Physeter macrocephalus). It has in the top of its head a large cavity, containing an oily fluid, which, after death, concretes into a whitish crystalline substance called spermaceti. See Sperm whale.
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Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Cachalot'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/web/c/cachalot.html. 1828.