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n. (alternative spelling of hemolysin English)
n. (plural of biodiversity English)
a. That can be evaded.
n. Somebody whose words are being quoted.
a. Consecrated by a vow or promise; consequent on a vow; devoted; promised. n. 1 A person, such as a monk or nun, who lives a religious life according to vows they have made 2 A devotee of a particular religion or cult 3 A devout or zealous worshipper 4 Someone who is devoted to a particular pursuit etc; an enthusiast.
n. (context medicine English) Any of a class of tyrosine phosphorylation inhibitors
n. (context civil engineering English) A structure inserted in the ground and used to maintain an excavation open or to isolate portions of contaminated ground. It can be built of any material from steel to reinforced concrete.
a. 1 Not in a particular order. 2 Mixed, not separated by property.
n. A neuropsychological condition in which, after damage to one hemisphere of the brain, the patient exhibits a deficit in attention to and awareness of one side of space.
n. A specialised hand-held power tool used for cutting narrow grooves in walls, for instance when laying electrical cable.
n. 1 An element, such as a tree, that contributes to evapotranspiration 2 Something that causes the transfer of water from the surface of the earth to the atmosphere by evaporation, sublimation and transpiration
n. A particular retroprogesterone.
n. Any interface through which there is no transfer of heat or entropy
n. (plural of linoleoyl English)
a. clouded with, or as with, mist.
n. (context medical English) A kind of slow bodily waste#Verb or emaciate disease, often accompanying a chronic disease.
n. 1 money paid for the freeing of a hostage. 2 The release of a captive, or of captured property, by payment of a consideration. 3 (context historical legal UK English) A sum paid for the pardon of some great offence and the discharge of the offender; also, a fine paid in lieu of corporal punishment. vb. 1 (context 14th century English) To deliver, especially in context of sin or relevant penalties. 2 To pay a price to set someone free from captivity or punishment. 3 To exact a ransom for, or a payment on.
n. (context baseball slang English) a ball which falls over the infielders' heads for a hit as if it were a bird shot by a hunter
n. (alternative form of printout English) vb. (context computing English) to print (a computer document)
n. The game rock paper scissors.
n. something owed since birth, due to inheritance.
n. Rapid or incoherent talk, with indistinct utterance; gibberish. vb. 1 (label en intransitive) To talk rapidly, indistinctly, or unintelligibly; to utter gibberish or nonsense. 2 (label en transitive) To utter rapidly or indistinctly; to gabble.
n. 1 (context music English) A musical phrase constructed from one or more statements of one modal pattern and ending in a rest. 2 (context Roman Catholicism English) A calendar which prescribes the Mass and office which is to be celebrated each day.
n. Any device which generates or is powered by compressed air
vb. (context intransitive English) To party to rock music.
n. (plural of desanctification English)
vb. (en-past of: scope out)
vb. 1 (context idiomatic English) To get engaged 2 (context idiomatic English) To begin any major commitment
n. (context botany English) The production of very many spores; the condition of being polysporous
a. 1 Towards the wind, or the direction from which the wind is blowing. 2 On the side exposed to the wind. adv. In a direction from which the wind blows, against the wind. n. 1 The direction from which the wind blows. 2 The side receiving the wind's force.
vb. (en-third-person singularkick out)
vb. (present participle of hang out to dry English)
n. 1 (context obsolete English) One who tells the truth; a truthful person. 2 One who predicts the future, using magic, intuition or intelligence; a diviner. 3 A mantis or rearhorse.
Etymology 1 vb. To match unsuitably; to fail to match Etymology 2
n. Something that does not match; something dissimilar, inappropriate or unsuitable.
n. (plural of hypernephroma English)
n. A test that is part of a larger one
n. (context pathology English) The condition such that an organ or other body part has an abnormal position.
n. (plural of minx English)
alt. 1 (&lit hold out English) 2 (context transitive English) To hold (something) out; to extend (something) forward. 3 (context idiomatic often with ''for'' English) To wait, or refuse in hopes of getting something better (from a negotiation, etc.) 4 (context idiomatic English) To survive, endure. n. (alternative spelling of holdout English). vb. 1 (&lit hold out English) 2 (context transitive English) To hold (something) out; to extend (something) forward. 3 (context idiomatic often with ''for'' English) To wait, or refuse in hopes of getting something better (from a negotiation, etc.) 4 (context idiomatic English) To survive, endure.
a. (context idiomatic English) In a situation which is unsuitable, unfamiliar, or unenjoyable.
Etymology 1 n. 1 (abbreviation of: order) 2 (context legal English) (abbreviationordinance) Etymology 2
alt. 1 (context now chiefly UK dialectal English) A point. 2 (context now chiefly UK dialectal English) A point of origin; a beginning. 3 (context now chiefly UK dialectal English) A point of land; a promontory. 4 (context now chiefly UK dialectal English) The point or edge of a weapon. n. 1 (context now chiefly UK dialectal English) A point. 2 (context now chiefly UK dialectal English) A point of origin; a beginning. 3 (context now chiefly UK dialectal English) A point of land; a promontory. 4 (context now chiefly UK dialectal English) The point or edge of a weapon.
vb. (present participle of repaganize English)
n. (plural of wormal English)
n. (context carpentry English) The part of a mortised timber surrounding the mortise, and against which the shoulders of the tenon bear.
n. (plural of comboloio English)
n. (context somewhat derogatory English) A person who is habitually drunk.
vb. (en-pastcall out)
n. (context mineral English) An isometric-hexoctahedral mineral containing nickel and oxygen.
n. (context astronomy English) A technique to isolate signals from those of nearby sources
vb. 1 To sell all of a product that is in stock. 2 (context idiomatic English) To abandon or betray one's supporters or principles to seek profit or other personal advantage.
n. (alternative spelling of short list English) vb. (alternative spelling of shortlist English)
a. not adhesive; slippery. n. an abhesive substance, such as Teflon.
n. (context slang English) A cowardly or timid person; a wimp.
vb. (context ambitransitive English) to spend a lot of money on something pleasant, but not necessary.
vb. (en-past of: ebulliate)
n. 1 The forms required by good breeding, or prescribed by authority, to be observed in social or official life; observance of the proprieties of rank and occasion; conventional decorum; ceremonial code of polite society. 2 The customary behavior of members of a profession, business, law, or sports team towards each other.
n. (plural of webconference lang=en nodot=1) ((alternative spelling of web conferences lang=en nocap=1 nodot=1)).
phr. (context rhetorical often humorous or ironic English) (non-gloss definition: Used to announce a fact of which the addressee was, or appeared to be, ignorant.)
vb. 1 (context dated English) gallop in a triumphant manner '' 2 (present participle of galumph English)
n. (air lane English)
n. One who unmasks.
n. (plural of partridge English)
n. (context chemistry English) A powerful biocide and preservative within the group of isothiazolinones, used in shampoos etc.
alt. The lipids in milk. n. The lipids in milk.
a. Resembling or pertaining to donuts.
n. A place or receptacle for depositing the ashes of cremated people.
n. 1 The act of fostering or encourage something. 2 (context obsolete English) food; nourishment
n. (plural of gameography English)
n. (corn poppy English)
phr. in the broad sense
a. 1 Of, or relating to a sect. 2 dogmatic or partisan. 3 parochial or narrow-minded. 4 bigoted. n. 1 A member of a sect. 2 A bigot.
adv. 1 (context conjunctive English) also; in addition 2 (context conjunctive English) moreover; furthermore 3 (context conjunctive English) otherwise; else 4 (context obsolete English) On one side. prep. 1 (context obsolete English) beside. 2 in addition, in addition to.
adv. (context idiomatic English) almost; nearly. prep. 1 beside; alongside. 2 Immediately following or preceding in a sequence; just subsequent or previous. 3 Compared to.
adv. (context obsolete Shakespeare English) in faith; indeed, truly
a. (context obsolete English) unrevenged
n. (plural of coalworker English)
vb. (en-past of: pageant)
a. That occurs before the onset of menstruation
n. (alternative form of steelmaker English)
n. (context organic chemistry English) Any derivative of phosphatidylinositol in which one or both acyl derivatives have been removed by hydrolysis
n. One who make a show of liking another person with profuse or excessive displays of camaraderie, such as vigorous hand clasping, back-slapping, hearty words of greeting, etc.
(context US legal English) Of a product, containing incorrect information on the label that would tend to deceive consumers as to any aspect of the product. v
(en-past of: misbrand)
n. (plural of spiritualization English)
n. Someone who cooperates with one or more other people in screenwriting
n. (plural of sachem English)
n. (plural of Araboid English)
Usage examples of "araboids".
The four strangers were seated together in positions of honor in the circle of the eight sachems of the Aberdeen Phylum.
There was no one else here, either, and he realized that all must be in the town square for the unusual muster of the sachems, caciques and sagamores.
With the papers signed by one or two sachems, we can go to one of the less punctilious planets and get some military beef to back up our legal rights.
At the first meeting of the Dail, the sachems of the respective clanns involved meet honorably and arrange for there to be made payment of the bloodright to the kyn of the slain.
The sachems and caciques wish to speak to a man from Beyond, to send a message to the Dail of the city of New Sidon.
First from the ranks of the sachems and caciques, then, in their turn, the clannsmen, but the final say was from Mildred, a Keeper of the Faith, as respected as any.
Your phylum, or tribe, governed itself by a muster of sachems and caciques, each of whom were elected by the adults of the claims they represented.
Squash Woman and the sachems of the other splintered clans of the related Indians from along the river to be extremely frustrating.
Then one day, determined to force the recalcitrant sachems into a decision of some nature, Arsen projected one of the whaleboats upriver from the island, saw Squash Woman and all the rest go aboard it, then projected it and them to the place of stone ruins across the western mountains, he and Lisa following quickly in their carriers.
Who would not, will not, if he can, Bathe in the breezes of fair Cape Ann, Rest in the bowers her bays enfold, Loved by the sachems and squaws of old?
That meant that, once arrived, the sachem would assuredly be considered by the Indians to be wiser than Squash Woman and, therefore, would become automatically the head of the council of sachems, and Arsen meant to get cozy with him before Squash Woman and her cronies could get him set into their intransigent mold of total non-cooperation and endless demands for foods and gifts.
Tents for the shamans and canopies for the sachems formed a vast circle in the field, in the center of which the fires burned.
The shamans and sachems shuffled themselves into two semicircular rows, facing Stone and Gail.
The women talk among themselves, and the sachems talk things over with their women in the evenings, and they go to the council the following day and puff out their chests and talk big and say what their women tell them to say.
Yet even they were upstaged by the main attractions of the gathering, a dozen or more sachems and warriors of the Caughnawaga Indians in full regalia who had been invited to dine, together with their wives and children.