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n. A contract killer; a professional assassin.
n. A member of the taxonomic family (term: Lycaenidae).
abbr. (context grammar English) (abbreviation of conditional English)
n. (context anatomy English) The entire cavity of the prosencephalon.
n. (plural of antisuffragist English)
vb. 1 (en-past of: install) 2 readied for use 3 #(literally) 4 #(of http://en.wikipedi
org/wiki/Computer_software) 5 put into position 6 placed
vb. (en-past of: reoccupy)
prep.phr. 1 (context finance English) Above par value. 2 At a high, or higher than expected, price. 3 scarce, in short supply.
vb. (en-past of: sprunt)
n. A very large shopping mall.
n. (plural of enoploteuthid English)
n. (context chiefly British English) a newspaper supplement or edition concerning sport, especially football; printed on pink newsprint
n. (plural of glycerid English)
vb. (en-past of: insinuate)
a. Like a (l en scrooge) in being (l en miserly), (l en tight-fisted), and a (l en kill-joy).
n. used to describe a method of transmitting binary data that avoids problems associated with long strings of ones or zeros
vb. (en-past of: persuade)
n. (plural of parsonage English)
a. 1 Between orbitals 2 Between orbits n. (context zoology English) Any of the scales between the orbits.
adv. 1 (context degree English) To a detectable degree, sufficient to be observed. 2 (context manner English) In an observable manner. 3 (context modal English) (non-gloss definition: Indicates that the proposition can be verified by observation.)
Powered by electricity. v
(en-past of: electrify)
n. schema
n. (plural of fyrdman English)
a. Serving, or suitable, for defense; defensive. n. 1 (context legal English) In civil proceedings, the party responding to the complaint; one who is sued and called upon to make satisfaction for a wrong complained of by another. 2 (context legal English) In criminal proceedings, the accused.
Etymology 1 n. 1 A call to do something, especially to come. 2 (context legal English) A notice summoning someone to appear in court, as a defendant, juror or witness. 3 (context military English) A demand for surrender. vb. (context transitive English) To serve someone with a summons. Etymology 2
vb. (en-third-person singular of: summon)
n. (plural of wretchedness English)
n. Any inactive or inert substance added to a formulation (of pesticides, pharmaceuticals etc)
n. cystic fibrosis
a. (''Afro-Caribbean'') posh or snobbish; classy or stylish
n. (obsolete spelling of afternoon English)
n. (context archaic slang English) A spree; a revel.
n. A mixture of fat (usually butter) and flour used to thicken sauces and stews.
n. (plural of participle English)
a. forked.
n. 1 the status of being savage 2 a violent act of cruelty 3 savage or brutal behaviour; barbarity
n. 1 The act of delimiting something. 2 A limit or boundary.
vb. (context archaic English) (en-archaic second-person singular of: shatter)
n. (alternative spelling of marlinspike English)
vb. (context obsolete English) To form into a body.
n. (plural of zittern English)
n. (plural of mailman English)
Etymology 1 vb. (past participle of bedo English). Etymology 2
(context UK dialectal English) outwitted.
n. Journeying through the sky, usually in an aeroplane.
n. (plural of maybird English)
alt. (context US English) A person who criticizes; a carper or faultfinder. n. (context US English) A person who criticizes; a carper or faultfinder.
n. (plural of phytochemist English)
n. (plural of bedstone English)
n. A measure of the immune reaction caused by an antigen
n. 1 A silent or passive assent or submission, or a submission with apparent content; - distinguished from avowed consent on the one hand, and on the other, from opposition or open discontent; quiet satisfaction. 2 (context legal English) Submission to an injury by the party injured, or tacit concurrence in the action of another.
vb. (present participle of trapes English)
n. (plural of dandiya English)
vb. (context transitive English) To ingest again.
a. Causing damage or harm.
a. (en-comparativewebby)
a. (context mineralogy English) Describing minerals that contain chromium
n. (plural of polyphloroglucinol English)
vb. (context archaic English) (form of second-person singular simple past hate English)
adv. In a facile manner
n. (context biology English) A nucleus.
vb. (context archaic English) second-person singular past form of ''to crown''.
adv. In an improvisational way.
n. (alternative form of schlep English) vb. (alternative form of schlep English)
n. (plural of caloron English)
n. (plural of heronsew English)
1 Without a stu
2 (context finance dated of an account English) Into which no deposit has ever been made.
n. (plural of gizzada English)
interj. 1 An expression of encouragement. 2 An expression of disbelief. 3 hurry up 4 An expression of exasperation, of impatience. n. (alternative form of come-on English) vb. 1 (&lit come on English) 2 (label en intransitive idiomatic with ''to'') To show sexual or relational interest through words or sometimes actions. 3 (label en intransitive) To appear on a television broadcast. 4 (label en intransitive) To progress, to develop. 5 (label en intransitive idiomatic colloquial UK) To get one's period, start menstruating. 6 (label en transitive) To encounter, discover; to come upon. 7 (label en sports of a substitute) To enter the playing field.
n. (context medicine English) A technique for viewing the bronchus using a flexible instrument called a bronchoscope
n. A ball-shaped Japanese dumpling made of batter and filled with diced octopus, tempura scraps, pickled ginger, and green onion.
n. (plural of guruji English)
n. 1 (context organic compound archaic English) atropine 2 (context organic compound archaic English) hyoscyamine
Etymology 1 n. 1 A red compound deposited during wine making; mostly potassium hydrogen tartrate - a source of cream of tartar. 2 A hard yellow deposit on the teeth.
a. Not limbic.
vb. (en-past of: predilect)
n. (love bite English)
n. (love bite English)
n. 1 A garment to keep the ears warm. 2 A garment or part worn over a single ear. 3 A sound-deadening cup or a pair of such cups worn over the ear or ears. 4 (attributive of earmuffs English).
n. (alternative form of Chaldea English)
n. (archaic spelling of Chaldea English)
n. (plural of suitcase English)
n. (context Christianity English) The view, believed to have been held by Calvin and other church reformers contrary to the Catholic doctrine of transubstantiation, that the bread and wine (in Christian Holy Communion) do not literally transform into flesh and blood but are the medium or mechanism through which the spiritual or immaterial essence of the flesh and blood of Jesus Christ are received.
n. (plural of lymphangioma English)
n. (plural of bedstaff English)
n. (plural of biopyribole English)
a. Not interesting.
n. (plural of propanal English)
n. 1 A cylindrical recess, typically machined around a hole to admit a screw so that it sits flush with a surface. 2 The tool with which a counterbore is machined. vb. (context transitive English) To create such a cylindrical recess.
n. (context nematology English) A developmental stage of certain nematode larvae in which they exhibit increased durability
n. (plural of berthing English)
n. Datedness of something originally intended to seem futuristic.
vb. 1 (context intransitive English) To tumble; dance clumsily. 2 (context intransitive UK dialectal English) To become tangled or matted. 3 (context transitive English) To tread down in a clumsy manner. 4 (context transitive UK dialectal English) To tangle; clot; mat (as in the hair).
n. The world or sphere of memes (transmitted ideas).
pre. used to form words involving the use of machines or mechanisms
vb. (context archaic English) (en-archaic second-person singular of: dissemble)
vb. (present participle of underaid English)
n. (plural of vowelization English)
vb. (en-past of: dispeed)
Usage examples of "dispeeded".
Stephanotis, passiflora, tuberose, alamanda, Bougainvillea, and other trailers of gorgeous colors, climb over everything, and make the night heavy with their odors.
If allowed to stand in a test tube, the odor of valeric aldehyde will first be noticed, then that of amyl valerate, and lastly that of valeric acid.
His garments had once been fine, but judging by their worn appearance and the sour odor that rose from them, Alec suspected their owner to be a denizen of the northern Ring.
You see, ambergris is the most effective odor fixative that has ever been found.
She smelled the ammoniac odor of the big beast, even as she plunged, face down, into a tumble of leaf-drift.
She smelled an ammoniac odor, and saw a huge midnight-blue form wide and tall enough to block the corridor.
Aniline when pure is a colorless liquid, possessing a rather ammoniacal odor.
Odier has known a woman who was affected with aphonia whenever exposed to the odor of musk, but who immediately recovered after taking a cold bath.
It was a rough leveling of the debris, upon which several small objects lay carelessly scattered, and at one corner of which a considerable amount of gasoline must have been spilled lately enough to leave a strong odor even at this extreme superplateau altitude.
The flower-beds were edged with box, which diffused around it that dreamy balsamic odor, full of antenatal reminiscences of a lost Paradise, dimly fragrant as might be the bdellium of ancient Havilah, the land compassed by the river Pison that went out of Eden.
The bear passed close enough to my window that I could smell the hot rank odor of her fur, and hear her heavy chuffing breath.
She had lost the odor of chypre now and smelled only of sweet girlish flesh.
Blade noticed what he had never noted before-an odor of chypre about the man.
Her sense of smell, so heightened now that it might have been a new sense altogether, had picked up the coolth of running water off this way, dimmed by the green odor of the grass.
The dark hall, the odor of dead rodents, peculiarly the smell of cosmoline, wetted burned paper.