The Collaborative International Dictionary
Conceivable \Con*ceiv"a*ble\, a. [Cf. F. concevable.]
Capable of being conceived, imagined, or understood. ``Any
conceivable weight.''
--Bp. Wilkins.
It is not conceivable that it should be indeed that
very person whose shape and voice it assumed.
--Atterbury.
-- Con*ceiv"a*ble*ness, n. -- Con*ceiv"a*bly, adv.
Condone \Con*done"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Condoned; p. pr. & vb. n. Condoning.] [L. condonare, -donatum, to give up, remit, forgive; con- + donare to give. See Donate.]
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To pardon; to forgive.
A fraud which he had either concocted or condoned.
--W. Black.It would have been magnanimous in the men then in power to have overlooked all these things, and, condoning the politics, to have rewarded the poetry of Burns.
--J. C. Shairp. (Law) To pardon; to overlook the offense of; esp., to forgive for a violation of the marriage law; -- said of either the husband or the wife.
Besnow \Be*snow"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Besnowed.] [OE. bisnewen, AS. besn[=i]wan; pref. be- + sn[=i]wan to snow.]
To scatter like snow; to cover thick, as with snow flakes. [R.]
--Gower.To cover with snow; to whiten with snow, or as with snow.
Crush \Crush\ (kr[u^]sh), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Crushed (kr[u^]sht); p. pr. & vb. n. Crushing.] [OE. cruschen, crousshen, Of. cruisir, croissir, fr. LL. cruscire, prob. of Ger. origin, from a derivative of the word seen in Goth. kruistan to gnash; akin to Sw. krysta to squeeze, Dan. kryste, Icel. kreysta.]
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To press or bruise between two hard bodies; to squeeze, so as to destroy the natural shape or integrity of the parts, or to force together into a mass; as, to crush grapes.
Ye shall not offer unto the Lord that which is bruised, or crushed, or broken, or cut.
--Lev. xxii. 24.The ass . . . thrust herself unto the wall, and crushed Balaam's foot against the wall.
--Num. xxii. 25. To reduce to fine particles by pounding or grinding; to comminute; as, to crush quartz.
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To overwhelm by pressure or weight; to beat or force down, as by an incumbent weight.
To crush the pillars which the pile sustain.
--Dryden.Truth, crushed to earth, shall rise again.
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To oppress or burden grievously.
Thou shalt be only oppressed and crushed alway.
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To overcome completely; to subdue totally.
Speedily overtaking and crushing the rebels.
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to subdue or overwhelm (a person) by argument or a cutting remark; to cause (a person) to feel chagrin or humiliation; to squelch. To crush a cup, to drink. [Obs.] To crush out.
To force out or separate by pressure, as juice from grapes.
To overcome or destroy completely; to suppress.
Side \Side\ (s[imac]d), n. [AS. s[=i]de; akin to D. zijde, G. seite, OHG. s[=i]ta, Icel. s[=i]?a, Dan. side, Sw. sida; cf. AS. s[=i]d large, spacious, Icel. s[=i]?r long, hanging.] 1. The margin, edge, verge, or border of a surface; especially (when the thing spoken of is somewhat oblong in shape), one of the longer edges as distinguished from the shorter edges, called ends; a bounding line of a geometrical figure; as, the side of a field, of a square or triangle, of a river, of a road, etc. 3. Any outer portion of a thing considered apart from, and yet in relation to, the rest; as, the upper side of a sphere; also, any part or position viewed as opposite to or contrasted with another; as, this or that side. Looking round on every side beheld A pathless desert. --Milton. 4.
One of the halves of the body, of an animals or man, on either side of the mesial plane; or that which pertains to such a half; as, a side of beef; a side of sole leather.
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The right or left part of the wall or trunk of the body; as, a pain in the side.
One of the soldiers with a spear pierced his side.
--John xix. 34.5. A slope or declivity, as of a hill, considered as opposed to another slope over the ridge.
Along the side of yon small hill.
--Milton.6. The position of a person or party regarded as opposed to another person or party, whether as a rival or a foe; a body of advocates or partisans; a party; hence, the interest or cause which one maintains against another; a doctrine or view opposed to another.
God on our side, doubt not of victory.
--Shak.We have not always been of the . . . same side in politics.
--Landor.Sets the passions on the side of truth.
--Pope.7. A line of descent traced through one parent as distinguished from that traced through another.
To sit upon thy father David's throne, By mother's side thy father.
--Milton.8. Fig.: Aspect or part regarded as contrasted with some other; as, the bright side of poverty.
By the side of, close at hand; near to.
Exterior side. (Fort.) See Exterior, and Illust. of Ravelin.
Interior side (Fort.), the line drawn from the center of one bastion to that of the next, or the line curtain produced to the two oblique radii in front.
--H. L. Scott.Side by side, close together and abreast; in company or along with.
To choose sides, to select those who shall compete, as in a game, on either side.
To take sides, to attach one's self to, or give assistance to, one of two opposing sides or parties.
Increasable \In*creas"a*ble\, a.
Capable of being increased.
--Sherwood. --
In*creas"a*ble*ness, n.
An indefinite increasableness of some of our ideas.
--Bp. Law.
Charlock \Char"lock\, n. [AS. cerlic; the latter part perh. fr. AS. le['a]c leek. Cf. Hemlock.] (Bot.) A cruciferous plant ( Brassica sinapistrum) with yellow flowers; wild mustard. It is troublesome in grain fields. Called also chardock, chardlock, chedlock, and kedlock.
Jointed charlock, White charlock, a troublesome weed ( Raphanus Raphanistrum) with straw-colored, whitish, or purplish flowers, and jointed pods: wild radish.
Usage examples of "chedlock".
So Cleon was dead, caught by the Cyclan, interrogated, disposed of and his borrowed clothing sent to Ruen as evidence that the man they wanted had to be on Technos.
The Techno director of the Yards was Ord Syers, perhaps one of the worst men ever to have held that post.
The disturbing part of it all was that, despite all the protestations, they were merely speculating: the two Technos and the dead Syers had spoken in identical tones.
Although motor vehicles were now quite common in and about the Yards, Marlet and many other Technos still preferred the horse-drawn camages that Trebbly and his contemporaries had used.
However, one can learn nothing of any successes that Marlet might have encountered at the Armories, for when he left the Techno riverboat at Kelph and boarded a coach for his new post, he vanished from human chronicles entirely.
Atomium sphere -- not surprising, there must be thirty people milling around up here, not counting the waitrons -- and several local multicast channels are playing a variety of styles of music to synchronize the mood swings of the revelers to hardcore techno, waltz, raga.
But while all of us out there are breaking our collective backs just so our sons may see a better world, the Technos divert a portion of the prodticts and rechannel it back into the country itself.
Over to the north and east, among the foothills of the mountains that ringed the Yards and separated them from the Barrens, the houses of the Technos -- as the technical elite were now called by the People -- were being built, looking down from their rugged heights upon the vast ship that was taking shape under their direction.
Toby and Flynn had grown used to recording sudden death in close-up on the battlefields of Technos III, but nothing there had prepared them for this.
Techno class, thus defeating the aim of instillation of a sense of veneration in the People for members of the aforementioned class.
But it also evades -- or defuses -- the relentless erotic pulse of mutant dance forms like disco, techno, and rave.
Technos were waking up by the dozens, spraying feverish clouds of emotion, and the Agros too reached a peak of excitement.
Heat and thumping techno ballooned out at them as the door opened and the knuckle-dragger on the ticket stand stepped back to allow them entry.
They stood down at the end of the ways where the slipway ran into the quiet Sea and talked of dreams much like the Technos had: the man spoke of the Ship for he was a pipefitter and exceedingly proud of his work.
Most of Kevin's play list was disco, techno, fusion, dance-club, hip-hop and rap, all of which Erin detested.