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stalactites
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Word definitions in Wikipedia
Stalactites is a solitaire card game which uses a deck of 52 playing cards . The game is similar to Freecell , but it is different because of the way building onto the foundations and the tableau.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Stalactites \Stal`ac*ti"tes\ (st[a^]l`[a^]k*t[imac]"t[=e]z), n. A stalactite. [Obs.] --Woodward.
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. (plural of stalactite English)
Usage examples of stalactites.
Stalagmites squatted like gargoyles on the cave floor while tubular stalactites hung overhead, twisting in serpentine fashion.
He pointed toward a narrow cleft between two stalactites near the roof.
Along the sides of the cavern, stalactites dripped from the ceiling and stalagmites rose up from the floor like a forest of spears.
They reached a narrows where stalactites hung from the ceiling in columns, and water dripped.
The ceiling soared two hundred feet above her, and stalagmites rose up from the floor like some petrified forest, while stalactites hung down like giant teeth.
Again and again, the zombie guardian snapped off sharp-pointed stalactites and hurled them at the adventurers.
Needles was a long, narrow cavern filled with sharp-tipped stalactites and stalagmites.
And many of the stalactites are precariously perched, hanging by a thread.
If one snapped off in the cave, it could send me plummeting to my death, or the sound could result in falling stalactites, which were just as hazardous.
The noise of that shook others loose, and suddenly stalactites were dropping like nail bombs all around me.
Thankfully, hardly any of the stalactites fell close enough to damage me.
Easing my head around, I glued my eyes to the ceiling and watched as several small stalactites fell and smashed.
I was staring up at the stalactite, judging how long I had to wriggle clear, when I thought about the stalactites around it.
It was worst in the spots where the stalactites hung low over the stalagmites.
Eventually the stalactites stopped falling, and the echoes of their shattering died away.