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n. a person who drives a taxicab
n. (context US English) A shallow depression denuded of vegetation and potentially muddy, created by the wallowing of hogs.
alt. 1 (context politics abbreviation English) government. 2 (context slang abbreviation English) governor. n. 1 (context politics abbreviation English) government. 2 (context slang abbreviation English) governor.
n. (plural of ping English) vb. (en-third-person singular of: ping)
vb. (en-third-person singular of: undemocratise)
n. (plural of decigrade English)
n. preserved vegetable, meat or seasonings compressed and put into a cube shape
n. (context obsolete English) prosperity; happiness; well-being
adv. (''Scottish English and dialect, archaic'') Aside, on or to one side; awry; off from the straight line.
n. 1 A food made made by wrapping a combination of chopped vegetables, possibly meat, and sometimes noodles, in a sheet of dough, dipping the dough in egg or an egg wash, then deep frying it. 2 In many Asian countries and among their emigrants, an egg-based, flute-shaped pastry, with typically yellowish, flaky crust, often eaten as a sweet snack or dessert.
Having green as its color. n. 1 The colour of growing foliage, as well as other plant cells containing chlorophyll; the colour between yellow and blue in the visible spectrum; one of the primary additive colour for transmitted light; the colour obtained by subtracting red and blue from white light using cyan and yellow filters. 2 (context politics sometimes capitalised English) A member of a green party; an environmentalist. 3 (context golf English) A putting green, the part of a golf course near the hole. 4 (context bowls English) The surface upon which bowls is played. 5 (context snooker English) One of the colour balls used in snooker, with a value of 3 points. 6 (context British English) a public patch of land in the middle of a settlement. 7 A grassy plain; a piece of ground covered with verdant herbage. 8 (context mostly in plural English) Fresh leaves or branches of trees or other plants; wreaths. 9 Any substance or pigment of a green colour. 10 (context British slang uncountable English) marijuana. 11 (context US uncountable English) money. 12 (context particle physics English) One of the three color charges for quarks. v
1 (context transitive English) To make (something) green, to turn (something) green. 2 To become or grow green in colour. 3 (context transitive English) To add greenspaces to (a town). 4 (context intransitive English) To become environmentally aware. 5 (context transitive English) To make (something) environmentally friendly.
n. inflammation of the pyosalpinx
n. (plural of perhydrate English)
n. 1 (context uncountable English) The action of the verb '''to rib'''. 2 (context uncountable English) Collectively, the ribs on an object. 3 (context countable English) An instance of teasing. vb. (present participle of rib English)
a. (lb en India cooking) cooked with steam interj. (non-gloss definition: Syllable used when humming a tune.)
vb. (context marketing English) To use too many brands (proprietary names in marketing).
n. (plural of verfremdungseffekt English)
n. The part of a plough that projects downward beneath the beam, for holding the share and other working parts.
vb. (present participle of fess English)
n. 1 The reimposition of an earlier and usually higher tariff. 2 (context slang English) An adjustable, flat-brimmed baseball cap with snap fasteners on the back.
a. having, or bounded by three lines
a. 1 Without motion. 2 Of or pertaining to akinesia: akinesic.
n. 1 (obsolete form of budget English) 2 (context heraldiccharge English) (in plural; also ''water-bougets'') A charge resembling the water bags that were used to supply the army in battle.
n. (plural of limerence English)
Usage examples of "limerences".
As before, the attentive ship having descried the whole fight, again came bearing down to the rescue, and dropping a boat, picked up the floating mariners, tubs, oars, and whatever else could be caught at, and safely landed them on her decks.
These floated aside, the broken ends drooping, the crew at the stern-wreck clinging to the gunwales, and striving to hold fast to the oars to lash them across.
The cutter without an order was freed, sliding sideways and outwards from the receiving hulk until all the oars were shipped and clear and the men began to pull towards the shore.
His men hung on their oars while he spoke to William, the penetrating power of his voice transfixing all on deck.
There were two water men at the oars, and he sensed their ears prick up.
They shortened up the bow ropes of the towing boats, jumping down into them to bail them out and unlash the oars and ship the rudders.
Without hesitation, they made shift to ship their oars, and pulled back towards the lugger to pick up other men.
Swimming round it we picked up the floating oars, and lashing them across the gunwale, tumbled back to our places.
The oars were useless as propellers, performing now the office of life-preservers.
Soon it went down, and while, with oars suspended, we were awaiting its reappearance, lo!
Then Gabriel shrieked out to his comrades to give way with their oars, and in that manner the mutinous boat rapidly shot away from the Pequod.
You have got out insurances on our lives and want to give way with their oars, and pocket the proceeds, do ye?
Setting sail to the rising wind, the lonely boat was swiftly impelled to leeward, by both oars and canvas.
Arcole took up the noose and Var the oars, and they moved a little distance from the schooner.
They drifted closer to the bank than was comfortable, but he dared not ply the oars yet, for fear the demons spot them.