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n. (cassette drive English)
a. 1 (context informal English) Associated with the outdoors, or suited to outdoor life. 2 (context informal English) Fond of the outdoors.
n. (context mineralogy English) A hexagonal mineral containing boron, calcium, hydrogen, magnesium, and oxygen.
vb. (en-third-person singular of: reperforate)
prep. (alternative form of umbe English)
n. (plural of freeway English)
n. A woman whose occupation it is to sell things.
n. (plural of fullerene English)
1 That has been given a higher rating 2 upgraded v
(en-past of: uprate)
n. 1 A Welsh team sport related to hockey, hurling, shinty, and bandy. 2 The curve-ended stick used in this game.
n. (plural of puerperal fever English)
vb. (present participle of stipulate English)
n. One who places adornments, who adorns.
n. (plural of phantasmagory English)
n. (plural of detector English)
a. Relating to nanotoxicology.
n. (dope fiend English)
vb. (context obsolete English) To confine; to contract; to stringe.
n. (context obsolete English) A hall for public meetings; a hall of judgment.
Etymology 1 a. Worn out; hackneyed; used so many times that it is no longer interesting or effective (often in reference to a word or phrase). Etymology 2
n. 1 A denomination of coinage in ancient Greece equivalent to one third of a stater. 2 (taxlink Trite genus noshow=1), a genus of spiders, found in Australia, New Zealand and Oceania, of the family Salticidae.
n. (plural of dendrogram English)
vb. (cx informal English) To swear with the pinky fingers entwined.
a. resembling incest
n. (plural of titanotherium English)
n. (plural of nasheed English)
vb. (context idiomatic US automotive English) To start abruptly from a standing stop, accelerating rapidly, especially so as to produce skid marks.
vb. (en-third-person singulardish out)
n. (jail lock English)
vb. (en-pastdish out)
n. (plural of denominator English)
a. Making complete.
n. 1 The shell of a tortoise, sometimes inaccurately the shell of a turtle, or that material. 2 (alternative form of tortoiseshell English)
n. A family of technologies that provides digital data transmission over the wires of a local telephone network. Often, this notion is used for the Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line (ADSL), the most commonly installed technical variety of DSL.
n. (plural of sulphacid English)
vb. 1 (context rock climbing English) To work one's way vertically up a chimney or cleft using a rocking movement. 2 To turn up to a place or function unexpectedly, or without notice or prior warning.
a. (alternative spelling of poufy English)
n. (plural of omul English)
vb. (en-third-person singularhang out to dry)
a. (context accounting computing business English) Of or pertaining to any situation where the last to arrive is the first to go, or a data structure where the most recently added item is the first to be retrieved.
a. 1 (&lit out of gas English): lacking fuel. 2 (context idiomatic English) Tired; lacking energy or motivation.
n. 1 a short news story printed alongside a larger one 2 (context computing English) information placed at the side of a webpage 3 (context US legal English) a short conference, between a judge and the attorneys of a case, held outside the jury's hearing; the place where this happens
n. (plural of chopine English)
n. (context military English) A rapid retreat, a rout. vb. 1 (context idiomatic intransitive English) To leave (a place) hastily (originally military). 2 (context idiomatic intransitive English) to abandon someone without warning. 3 (context idiomatic intransitive English) miss school, play truant, play hooky. 4 (context idiomatic transitive of one's eyes English) To cause to bulge. 5 (context idiomatic computing English) To crash or glitch.
n. (misspelling of idea English)
n. A stimulant drug of the xanthine class.
n. (context obsolete English) A fripper; one who deals in frippery or old clothes.
vb. 1 to search, to look for 2 to track down, to find by searching
n. An antiseptic/disinfectant compound.
n. (context travel English) A future-dated line of text put in to an airline reservation system or GDS to delay the booking being moved to archives.
Etymology 1 vb. (present participle of gloom English) Etymology 2
n. twilight of morning or evening; the gloaming
vb. (present participle of rub out English)
vb. (present participle of cash out English)
n. (plural of quixotry English)
n. 1 (context baseball English) An instance of fouling out. 2 (context basketball English) An instance of fouling out. vb. 1 (context baseball English) To become out by hitting a foul ball which is caught. 2 (context basketball English) To be disqualified from further play for having committed too many fouls.
n. A prehistoric man resembling an ape.
n. 1 the quality of being portable 2 (context computing English) the ability of a program (or software system) to execute properly on multiple hardware platforms 3 the ability of an employee to move between different social security schemes without losing their contributions 4 the ability of a telephone subscriber to keep his/her number when switching to a different network
n. (context onomatopoeia English) The sound of a locomotive whistle
a. Completely sold; no more (of a particular item) in stock
vb. (context transitive idiomatic English) to send (children or pets) to stay with other people (or to boarding school, in the case of children)
n. (context British informal English) A mobile phone.
alt. 1 an electric circuit in which voltage and current do not vary with time 2 an electric current in which the electrons flow in one direction, but may vary with time n. 1 an electric circuit in which voltage and current do not vary with time 2 an electric current in which the electrons flow in one direction, but may vary with time
vb. (present participle of neglect English)
n. (plural of geezer English)
n. (plural of chron English)
vb. (context transitive English) To bring under yoke; make subject.
n. polydimethylsiloxane
n. (plural of archmagician English)
n. 1 (context uncountable English) The condition of being extensive 2 (context countable English) The extent to which something is extensive
n. (plural of halacha English)
a. (alternative form of highfalutin English)
n. (plural of waitlist English)
n. (context Scotland English) A potato scone; made from flour and cooked potatoes, but no onions.
n. A pause. vb. (present participle of pause English)
n. (plural of obscenity English)
a. sad or pessimistic n. (context music English) The accented beat at the beginning of a bar (indicated by a conductor with a downward stroke)
adv. (context idiomatic English) after an active or heated period. alt. (context idiomatic English) after an active or heated period.
n. a device that allows two-way communication via radio
vb. 1 (context obsolete English) To cut; to separate and remove. 2 (context obsolete English) To resolve or break up, as by medicines.
n. proanthocyanidin
n. (taxlink Lepidochelys olivacea species), a species of (l en sea turtle)
n. 1 (context rhetoric English) A change from one subject to another. 2 (context pathology English) Any change in the course of a disease; metabola.
n. (plural of dweebling English)
n. That to which something is attributed; a target of attribution.
adv. In terms of traffic.
n. (plural of backstock English)
Usage examples of "backstocks".
Handing it over, she absently flicked a glance at the cowboy then let it stay when she recognized the sandy-haired rider she had noticed earlier with Jessy.
Which she could do: better to convoy with riders you knew than ones the truckers picked, and Aby was an experienced senior guide whose recommendation counted.
God, sex, money, acquiring a ranch and, above all, how to handle women were explained to him by the night riders.
The crusty Sperren jabbered aimlessly about supposed civilians who disguised themselves as Green Riders and foolishly risked their lives to deliver unimportant messages to the king.
I immediately take off with the squadron and close to the airfield I see horses, their dismounted riders beside them, all Ivans.
Two riders ventured down the track, passing within ten yards of where Rolan and Alec stood holding their breath.
Looking shoreward, Alec could make out wagons and riders moving along a coastal highroad.
The wind sang deliciously through their feathers as Seregil and Alec spiraled down to meet the riders.
He was working gypsy construction jobs by day and playing at night with the Corvairs, never anyplace near the surf but inland, for this sun-beat farm country had always welcomed them, beer riders of the valleys having found strange affinities with surfers and their music.
Two horses, a pair of riders, surrounded by the gang of aqueduct workers who had abandoned their evening meal to listen to what was happening.
She saw the horse and rider emerge from under the trees: Tiarna Mac Ard, astride Conhal.
Italian: their exquisite manners, art, food, and articulacy, not to mention their great rider, Moreno Argentin.
Ali Baba silently counted as they passed, and when he could see nothing more but a dissipating cloud of dust, he had enumerated fully forty horses and forty riders.
Ducking inside, she found the rider, Berelain, sipping tea with Amys and Bair and Sorilea, all stretched out on bright, tasseled cushions.
The beasts, in the uncertainty of so many new riders, lost patience and moved away from nudging knees and elbows, adding to the bawling confusion.