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alt. (context India English) A serving of tea shortly after awakening in the morning. n. (context India English) A serving of tea shortly after awakening in the morning.
a. Resembling or characteristic of a tortoise; thus frequently slow or unhurried
n. (plural of deletion English)
n. (l en discrimination Discrimination) based on a person's language.
n. A worker who carries out road construction or maintenance.
n. A calcium antagonist used to control hypertension.
alt. a cream, to be spread on the skin, containing organic compounds that absorb, and/or titanium dioxide that reflects the sun’s ultraviolet radiation n. a cream, to be spread on the skin, containing organic compounds that absorb, and/or titanium dioxide that reflects the sun’s ultraviolet radiation
vb. (past participle of catch English)
Etymology 1 n. (context obsolete nautical English) skillygalee. Etymology 2
a. (context Scotland northern England English) skilled, skilful.
n. 1 A speech disorder characterised by stuttering. 2 (context obsolete English) One who stutters; a stammerer. vb. 1 (context ambitransitive English) To speak with a spasmodic repetition of vocal sounds. 2 (context intransitive English) To exhaust a gas with difficulty
n. (plural of obtention English)
vb. (en-past of: unattire)
n. The condition of being autozygous.
a. (context obsolete English) Full of knots.
n. (plural of shoer English)
n. The combination of computer and telecommunications technology.
a. (context in reference to a horse English) Rearing on the hind legs.
a. Having nipples; covered with nipples.
n. 1 An agreement between parties concerning the sale of property; or a contract by which one party binds himself to transfer the right to some property for a consideration, and the other party binds himself to receive the property and pay the consideration. 2 An agreement or stipulation; mutual pledge. 3 An item (usually brand new) purchased for significantly less than the usual, or recommended, price; also (when not qualified), a gainful transaction; an advantageous purchase. 4 The thing stipulated or purchased. vb. 1 (context intransitive English) To make a bargain; to make a contract for the exchange of property or services; to negotiate; -- followed by with and for; as, to bargain with a farmer for a cow. 2 (context transitive English) To transfer for a consideration; to barter; to trade; as, to bargain one horse for another.
vb. (present participle of coyote English)
n. 1 (context uncountable English) The loss of bodily weight 2 (context countable English) An amount of bodily weight lost through diet and exercise changes
n. (plural of bolshie English)
n. A distinct part of a larger quality
n. (plural of dickbag English)
n. (plural of ruche English)
n. The condition of being insentient
n. (context chemistry English) The study of the effects of isotopic substitution on chemical compounds, especially on the kinetics of their reactions.
adv. By means of roentgenography; radiographically.
n. (context mycology English) A type of outer skin of a fungus where all the ends of the hyphae all reach the same height and form a palisade of long inflated cells.
alt. A person who is not a carrier (of a disease etc.) n. A person who is not a carrier (of a disease etc.)
n. (plural of perfumer English)
n. (plural of glebe English)
adv. (context idiomatic English) Affecting people close to, or within, ones family circle.
n. A female who emulates.
n. A framework in the form of a passageway of columns that supports a trelliswork roof; used to support and train climbing plants
a. Pertaining to the first humans or the beginning of humankind. n. One of the earliest humans.
n. (plural of shriveler English)
n. (context botany English) A small lacinia.
vb. (en-past of: unselect)
vb. (en-third-person singular of: deconcoct)
Usage examples of "deconcocts".
Napoleon, altho he rose to be Emperor of the French, was a Corsican by birth and an Italian by descent.
Napoleon accused Hamburg of Anglomania, and by ruining her he thought to ruin England.
Napoleon by embodying the evil Apollyon in the person of a descendant of the great Emperor, and endowing him with all the qualities of his illustrious ancestor.
Only when the sky had paled and dawn climbed over the blocks of flats along Battersea Park Road did Napoleon direct them to the lake-side.
Knocker had finished his breakfast and regained his temper a little he set off with Napoleon, Vulge and Orococco and they followed Chalotte and Dodger through the streets to Battersea churchyard.
Beauregard had been fascinated with the battles of Napoleon and read about them avidly.
Grandjon-Larisse, his old enemy in battle, now his personal friend and colleague in this business, had influenced Napoleon, and the Directory through him, to respect the neutrality of the duchy of Bercy, for which the four nations of this Congress declared.
Still, when Napoleon finally fell from power, and when, on April 19, 1814, the Allies marched into Grenoble, Champollion wondered bitterly whether a government of laws would now actually replace Bonapartist tyranny and saw little hope of any such consummation.
As for the vile scandal about Hortense and Napoleon, there is little doubt that it was spread by the Bonapartist family for interested motives.
The Ashbys had had the same bedrooms at the Chequers for the night of the Bures Show since the days of William Ashby the Seventh: he who had joined the Westover Fencibles to resist the expected invasion of Napoleon the First.
Peace being concluded with Russia it was necessary to make choice of an Ambassador, not only to maintain the new relations of amity between Napoleon and Alexander, but likewise to urge on the promised intervention of Russia with England,--to bring about reconciliation and peace between the Cabinets of Paris and London.
Are not the limbs still when the ghost is fled, And canst thou move, Napoleon being dead?
The Champs Elysees were full of the late afternoon sunlight, and we sauntered slowly, criticising the occupants of the various carriages rolling up to the great arch of Napoleon, and arguing in a broken, desultory way on our usual subject of talk--literature.
The Governor, with a much milder reply than most men would have given, retired, and Napoleon harangued upon the sinister expression of his countenance, abused him in the coarsest manner, and made his servant throw a cup of coffee out of the window because it had stood a moment on a table near the Governor.
When, the week before Christmas, they learned that a French army officer named Napoleon Bonaparte had recaptured Toulon, that all foreign invaders had been forced to retreat from French soil and all counterrevolution suppressed, even the Countess admitted she had given up hope of seeing her son again.