Sooterkin

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Sooterkin \Soot"er*kin\, n. [Cf. Prov. G. suttern to boil
     gently.]
     A kind of false birth, fabled to be produced by Dutch women
     from sitting over their stoves; also, an abortion, in a
     figurative sense; an abortive scheme.
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           Fruits of dull heat, and sooterkins of wit. --Pope.
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