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oblique-swimming triplefin

n. A blenny fish, (taxlink Obliquichthys maryannae species)

roof tiles

n. (roof tile English)

quarter final

n. alternative form of quarter-final

aristo

n. (context informal English) An aristocrat

mastigoteuthid

n. (context zoology English) Any member of the Mastigoteuthidae.

triynes

n. (plural of triyne English)

buzzsaws

n. (plural of buzzsaw English)

peristaltic

a. Of, or pertaining to peristalsis. alt. Of, or pertaining to peristalsis.

semiportable

a. Intermediate in size, weight, etc. between fixed and portable.

labidurid

n. (context zoology English) Any member of the Labiduridae.

extragonadal

a. Outside the gonads.

quintet

n. 1 (context music English) A composition (a type of chamber music) in five parts (typically each a singer or instrumentalist, sometimes several musicians) 2 (context music English) A group of five musicians, fit to play such a piece of music together 3 Any group of five members

loxodonts

n. (plural of loxodont English)

counterpanes

n. (plural of counterpane English)

ommateum

n. (context zoology English) A compound eye, as of insects and crustaceans.

microprojectiles

n. (plural of microprojectile English)

requisitely

adv. In a requisite way; necessarily.

epeiric

a. Describing the part of a sea that lies over a continental shelf

respawn

vb. 1 (context video games of a collected item, weapon or other pickup English) To reappear at its spawn point. 2 (context video games of a character English) To re-enter play after being killed.

microaerophilic

a. 1 of, or relating to a microaerophile 2 living and thriving in an environment low in oxygen

enstraighten

vb. (context rare English) = (l en straighten)

radiopasteurization

n. pasteurization of a surface by exposure to low levels of ionizing radiation.

pink 'un

n. (context chiefly British English) a newspaper supplement or edition concerning sport, especially football; printed on pink newsprint

leadmen

n. (plural of leadman English)

sugar pine

n. (taxlink Pinus lambertiana species noshow=1), the largest species of pine, native to California and Oregon; particularly noted for its huge, distinctive cone.

yarwips

n. (plural of yarwip English)

whitebark

n. The North American pine (taxlink Pinus albicaulis species noshow=1), found in mountainous and subalpine regions, often as krummholz.

foehn

n. 1 A warm dry wind blowing down the north sides of the Alps, especially in Switzerland. 2 (context meteorology English) A similar katabatic wind developing on the lee side of a mountain.

boac

init. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British%20Overseas%20Airways%20Corporation

conferrable

a. Capable of being conferred

freezeproofed

vb. (en-past of: freezeproof)

chookies

n. (plural of chookie English)

cryofracture

n. fracture caused by the stresses of water freeze to become ice

saprophages

n. (plural of saprophage English)

unmeasurable

a. not able to be measured; immeasurable

summon

n. call, command, order vb. 1 To call people together; to convene. 2 To ask someone to come; to send for. 3 (rfdef: English) 4 (context legal English) To order someone to appear in court, especially by issuing a summons.

boarding pass

n. A document or card, similar to a ticket, needed in order to board an airplane or other mode of transport.

enskying

vb. (present participle of ensky English)

time-bill

n. (alternative form of time bill English)

choking

n. 1 The process in which a person's airway becomes blocked, resulting in asphyxia in cases that are not treated promptly. 2 The act of coughing when a foreign object (i.e. food, beverages) becomes lodged in a person's airway. vb. (present participle of choke English)

clambers

vb. (en-third-person singular of: clamber)

priapic

a. 1 phallic. 2 (Excessively) masculine; excessively concerned with masculinity.

skirtless

a. Without a skirt.

aanya

n. (given name female from=India), used in India.

dandiprats

n. (context obsolete English) (plural of dandiprat English)

knights-errant

n. (knight-errant English)

bromane

n. (context inorganic compound English) The compound bromine hydride or hydrogen bromide, HBr.

roset

n. A red colour used by painters.

tomalley

n. (context cooking English) The hepatopancreas of a crustacean.

b-52s

n. (plural of B-52 English)

soubahs

n. (plural of soubah English)

commemoration

n. 1 The act of commemorating; an observance or celebration designed to honor the memory of some person or event. 2 Whatever serves the purpose of commemorating; a memorial.

norepinephrinergic

a. Having the quality of containing or releasing norepinephrine.

Usage examples of "norepinephrinergic".

When they had raised their glasses together, Axel went off to see about a new keg, and the other men turned back to a game of draughts.

Corunna, coming on deck the following morning, found Marvin bargaining with the bumboat men whose small craft, laden with horse-meat, water kegs and newly-caught marine delicacies such as mussels and squid, were clustered at the waist of the Olive Branch like squash seeds floating beside a segment of their parent squash.

He replaced the keg in its chocks with neat precision and waved Zarantha towards the stairs.

It happened, however, that some unneighbourly person sent him notice of a clecking of tea chests, or brandy kegs, at which both Jenny and Betty Pawkie were the howdies.

By the time Asa finished his third helping of cobbler, he felt like he sat in the middle of a powder keg.

Surprise bore down, therefore, under her fighting-sails, with her master at the con, her guns run out, powder-boys sitting well behind them on their leather cartridge-cases, shot-garlands full, splinter-netting rigged, scuttle-butts all along, decks damped and sanded, and wet fearnought screens over the hatches leading to the magazine far below, where the gunner sat among his little deadly kegs.

His chest was as broad and as hard as one of the kegs in the larder, and his curly blond hair looked disheveled no matter how often he wetted or greased it down.

Just the same, Randal scanned the room warily as he and Lys made their way through the close- packed tables to where the landlord stood filling tankards from an open keg.

A fellow was selling nobblers out of a keg of brandy hanging from his neck.

Mackerel Cove was that the Toad, seen aground on the Clamshell June 19 by the Halifax lumberman, and found aground on the same ledge July 11 by the porgy steamer, had remained aground uninterruptedly between those two dates, the crew, meanwhile, consuming the four kegs of rum.

Paul told the negro to pull alongside and have the raftsman open the keg.

No, Keg sent his request for speed through his symbiont interface and the bike leaped forward.

The men exchanged looks, but Keg directed his symbiont to tow them to the base of an overhanging tree growing on a raised bit of swamp land.

At the sound of it the others stirred from their slumber and joined them as Keg directed his symbiont to pull them to shore.

Chardonnay, a puckering rendition of a California varietal she probably bought by the keg.