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n. a person who drives a taxicab
n. (context US English) A shallow depression denuded of vegetation and potentially muddy, created by the wallowing of hogs.
alt. 1 (context politics abbreviation English) government. 2 (context slang abbreviation English) governor. n. 1 (context politics abbreviation English) government. 2 (context slang abbreviation English) governor.
n. (plural of ping English) vb. (en-third-person singular of: ping)
vb. (en-third-person singular of: undemocratise)
n. (plural of decigrade English)
n. preserved vegetable, meat or seasonings compressed and put into a cube shape
n. (context obsolete English) prosperity; happiness; well-being
adv. (''Scottish English and dialect, archaic'') Aside, on or to one side; awry; off from the straight line.
n. 1 A food made made by wrapping a combination of chopped vegetables, possibly meat, and sometimes noodles, in a sheet of dough, dipping the dough in egg or an egg wash, then deep frying it. 2 In many Asian countries and among their emigrants, an egg-based, flute-shaped pastry, with typically yellowish, flaky crust, often eaten as a sweet snack or dessert.
Having green as its color. n. 1 The colour of growing foliage, as well as other plant cells containing chlorophyll; the colour between yellow and blue in the visible spectrum; one of the primary additive colour for transmitted light; the colour obtained by subtracting red and blue from white light using cyan and yellow filters. 2 (context politics sometimes capitalised English) A member of a green party; an environmentalist. 3 (context golf English) A putting green, the part of a golf course near the hole. 4 (context bowls English) The surface upon which bowls is played. 5 (context snooker English) One of the colour balls used in snooker, with a value of 3 points. 6 (context British English) a public patch of land in the middle of a settlement. 7 A grassy plain; a piece of ground covered with verdant herbage. 8 (context mostly in plural English) Fresh leaves or branches of trees or other plants; wreaths. 9 Any substance or pigment of a green colour. 10 (context British slang uncountable English) marijuana. 11 (context US uncountable English) money. 12 (context particle physics English) One of the three color charges for quarks. v
1 (context transitive English) To make (something) green, to turn (something) green. 2 To become or grow green in colour. 3 (context transitive English) To add greenspaces to (a town). 4 (context intransitive English) To become environmentally aware. 5 (context transitive English) To make (something) environmentally friendly.
n. inflammation of the pyosalpinx
n. (plural of perhydrate English)
n. 1 (context uncountable English) The action of the verb '''to rib'''. 2 (context uncountable English) Collectively, the ribs on an object. 3 (context countable English) An instance of teasing. vb. (present participle of rib English)
a. (lb en India cooking) cooked with steam interj. (non-gloss definition: Syllable used when humming a tune.)
vb. (context marketing English) To use too many brands (proprietary names in marketing).
n. (plural of verfremdungseffekt English)
n. The part of a plough that projects downward beneath the beam, for holding the share and other working parts.
vb. (present participle of fess English)
n. 1 The reimposition of an earlier and usually higher tariff. 2 (context slang English) An adjustable, flat-brimmed baseball cap with snap fasteners on the back.
a. having, or bounded by three lines
a. 1 Without motion. 2 Of or pertaining to akinesia: akinesic.
n. 1 (obsolete form of budget English) 2 (context heraldiccharge English) (in plural; also ''water-bougets'') A charge resembling the water bags that were used to supply the army in battle.
n. (plural of limerence English)
n. (plural of quaternation English)
n. (plural of burthen English)
a. (alternative spelling of godlike English)
n. An antiretroviral drug, an integrase inhibitor, used to treat HIV infection.
vb. (en-past of: career)
(context biology of a cell or tissue English) That has taken on a specialized form and function v
(en-past of: differentiate)
vb. (cx informal English) To swear with the pinky fingers entwined.
n. global-scale epidemiology
n. 1 (context archaic English) pressure 2 The juice of the grape extracted by the press. 3 A fee paid for the use of a winepress.
a. 1 (context of a woman or female animal English) That has not given birth 2 (context of a mosquito or other female insect English) That has not yet laid eggs
vb. (present participle of hit out English)
(alternative spelling of paralyzing English) alt. (alternative spelling of paralyzing English) v
(present participle of paralyse English)
vb. (context idiomatic English) To say suddenly, without thinking
n. The practice of forcing employees not promoted in a timely fashion to terminate employment.
vb. (context idiomatic English) to damage one's own reputation through bad behavior.
vb. (en-past of: keyword)
n. (context physics English) Young's modulus
n. (context biochemistry English) (w: Insulin-degrading enzyme)
vb. To force out or separate by pressure.
vb. (en-past of: depict)
vb. (en-third-person singularkick out)
a. 1 (lb en literally) Not accessible to view. 2 (lb en idiomatic of a goal, aspiration, etc) Not yet attainable. 3 (lb en idiomatic colloquial) superb, excellent. 4 (lb en idiomatic colloquial) Very expensive. 5 (lb en idiomatic colloquial) drunk. alt. 1 (lb en literally) Not accessible to view. 2 (lb en idiomatic of a goal, aspiration, etc) Not yet attainable. 3 (lb en idiomatic colloquial) superb, excellent. 4 (lb en idiomatic colloquial) Very expensive. 5 (lb en idiomatic colloquial) drunk.
n. (plural of addictive English)
Usage examples of "addictives".
When I reached my room I began to write, and spent the night in composing an ode which I sent the next day to the advocate.
As he was writing his ode, I composed a sonnet on the same subject, and, expressing his admiration for it he begged me to sign it, and to allow him to send it with his poetry.
And a horrible presentiment gripped me, a voice, fusty as mouldering cerecloths, whispered that I should never complete the Ode until I had discovered his fate.
The Poet seems, in the first Ode particularly, to design the EpOde as a complete air to the Strophe and Antistrophe, which have more the appearance of Recitative.
He lived in the household of Manimenesh as his poet and praisemaker, and his sonnets, ghazals, and odes were recited throughout the city.
He added that his wife knew my ode by heart, and that she had read it to the intended husband of Angelique, who had a great wish to make my acquaintance.
My more experienced companion felt the influence too, for he lifted up a cracked voice and broke into a droning chant, which he assured me was an Eastern ode which had been taught him by the second sister of the Hospodar of Wallachia.
Jonson, whose splendid scorn took to itself lyric wings in the two great Odes to Himself, sang high and aloof for a while, then the frenzy caught him, and he flung away his lyre to gird himself for deeds of mischief among nameless and noteless antagonists.
In the interval he concentrated on perfecting the odes and the rhymed variety of stichomythia in which he often had his characters speak, parrying epigram with epigram.
GOLDEN THRESHOLD BY SAROJINI NAIDU WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY ARTHUR SYMONS DEDICATED TO EDMUND GOSSE WHO FIRST SHOWED ME THE WAY TO THE GOLDEN THRESHOLD London, 1896 Hyderabad, 1905 CONTENTS FOLK SONGS Palanquin-Bearers Wandering Singers Indian Weavers Coromandel Fishers The Snake-Charmer Corn-Grinders Village-Song In Praise of Henna Harvest Hymn Indian Love-Song Cradle-Song Suttee SONGS FOR MUSIC Song of a Dream Humayun to Zobeida Autumn Song Alabaster Ecstasy To my Fairy Fancies POEMS Ode to H.
The wild ode resumes the joyous dance that has made their whole way from Asia one long sacred revel-- Toilless toil and labour sweet.
The Kimberley Club had a most undistinguished la ode Since its foundation, it had been enlarged twice, and the additions were glaringly apparent, unbaked Kimberley brick abutting upon galvanized iron and finally fired redbrick.
Pythian Ode, Aphrodite gives the wryneck to Jason as the magical means to seduce Medea, and with it he binds the princess to him through her obsessive love.
Full Choral Ode, the evolutions carrying them to the extreme Left of the Orchestra in the Strophe, and in the Antistrophe back to the Altar.
Then the Chorus address themselves to a Choral Ode in memory of the Spirit now passed beneath the earth: the evolutions as usual, carrying them with each Strophe to one end of the Orchestra, and with the Antistrophe back to the Altar.