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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)
Usage examples of "formulant".
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.