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n. Any of several species of large Antarctic petrels, especially ''Pachyptila turtur'' (the blue petrel) and ''Pachyptila desolata''.
a. Relating to the circulatory system, that is the heart and blood vessels.
vb. (present participle of homodimerize English)
pre. Forms terms relating to piezoelectricity or other effects of mechanical stress
n. (plural of dockside English)
(context slang English) Having street cred; conforming to modern urban trends. n. 1 A paved part of road, usually in a village or a town. 2 A road as above but including the sidewalks (pavements) and buildings. 3 The people who live in such a road, as a neighborhood. 4 The people who spend a great deal of time on the street in urban areas, especially, the young, the poor, the unemployed, and those engaged in illegal activities. 5 (context slang English) street talk or slang. 6 (context figuratively English) A great distance. 7 (context poker slang English) Each of the three opportunities that players have to bet, after the flop, turn and river. 8 Illicit, contraband, especially of a drug v
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a. (context obsolete rare English) Not renowned, unfamous.
a. Abbreviation of postgraduate. n. Abbreviation of postgraduate.
vb. (present participle of overnight English)
a. Not dualistic.
alt. A historical region on the northern slopes of the northeastern Carpathian Mountains and adjoining plains, currently split between Romania and Ukraine. n. A historical region on the northern slopes of the northeastern Carpathian Mountains and adjoining plains, currently split between Romania and Ukraine.
1 (context not comparable English) Made of the metal iron. 2 (context figuratively English) strong (as of will), inflexible. n. (context uncountable English) A common, inexpensive metal, often black in color, that rusts, is attracted by magnets, and is used in making steel. v
1 (context transitive English) To pass an iron over (clothing or some other item made of cloth) in order to remove creases. 2 (context transitive archaic English) To shackle with irons; to fetter or handcuff. 3 (context transitive English) To furnish or arm with iron.
n. (plural of lexiphane English)
Usage examples of "lexiphanes".
Ikey asked a cellarman named Orkney, who was sweeping the spent sawdust from the floor.
Musicians were summoned, and food and wine, but all tasted like sawdust, and the flutes and citherns clawed at his nerves.
The last I saw as we returned through the doorway was Hassel surrounded by a halo of sawdust.
There was sawdust in the tiring-house where the maypole was kept before it was used.
For example: when sawdust is nitrated, it becomes nitrocellulose, and is used in smokeless powder.
Schrutt flopped backward in the sawdust, rolling into the ratel, who snapped, but who backed away himself - at the chute door, the two of them quaking at the close-range roar familiar to all the inmates of the Hietzinger Zoo.
Distantly he retasted the sand around Entudenin, the frost-hardened clay of the Hintervold, the pitch of Tyrian pines, and saffron -laced sawdust from an arena he had never seen, all seasoned with dark flame.
Nothing could soothe Ruer Stross like the sweet aroma of sawdust tickling his nose.
As he completes his efforts, Yawl appears and unbanks the forge, the coals still hot enough to smoke sawdust as he begins laying in charcoal.
His head was shielded from the hot sun by a little cloth cap that was torn in the crown, and his long hair and his broad back and shoulders were besprinkled with sawdust.
The musicians were doing a blasting oom-pah-pah of brassy Bavarian folk music, and the girls, although they were cavorting on soft sawdust, contributed to the noise with the repeated thigh-slapping that the dance demanded.
What a cheap, convenient, expressionist device, this sawdust ring, this little O!
The workshop floor was strewn with straw and sawdust, offcuts from his contraption.
Every dead tree or branch in the forest is crowded with all species of Polyporus, while carpets, damp cellars, plaster walls and sawdust are favorite abodes of many fungi.
The floors had been thoroughly swept, and though faint traces of sawdust were visible in the rafters, on the windowsills, and along the top edges of the tool racks, this place was no typical messy woodshop.