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Yellows

Yellows \Yel"lows\, n.

  1. (Far.) A disease of the bile in horses, cattle, and sheep, causing yellowness of the eyes; jaundice.

    His horse . . . sped with spavins, rayed with the yellows.
    --Shak.

  2. (Bot.) A disease of plants, esp. of peach trees, in which the leaves turn to a yellowish color; jeterus.

  3. (Zo["o]l.) A group of butterflies in which the predominating color is yellow. It includes the common small yellow butterflies. Called also redhorns, and sulphurs. See Sulphur.

Reformade

Reformade \Ref`or*made"\ (r?f`?r*m?d"), n. A reformado. [Obs.]

Fract

Fract \Fract\ (fr[a^]kt), v. t. [L. fractus, p. p. of frangere to break.] To break; to violate. [Obs.]
--Shak.

bonelet

bonelet \bonelet\ n. a small bone; especially one in the middle ear.

Syn: ossicle, ossiculum.

Fabricate

Fabricate \Fab"ri*cate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Fabricated; p. pr. & vb. n. Fabricating.] [L. fabricatus, p. p. of fabricari, fabricare, to frame, build, forge, fr. fabrica. See Fabric, Farge.]

  1. To form into a whole by uniting its parts; to frame; to construct; to build; as, to fabricate a bridge or ship.

  2. To form by art and labor; to manufacture; to produce; as, to fabricate woolens.

  3. To invent and form; to forge; to devise falsely; as, to fabricate a lie or story.

    Our books were not fabricated with an accomodation to prevailing usages.
    --Paley.

Caulophyllum thalictroides

papooseroot \papooseroot\, papoose root \papoose root\n. (Bot.) A tall herb ( Caulophyllum thalictroides) of eastern North America and Asia having blue berrylike fruit and a thick knotty rootstock formerly used medicinally; the Cohosh. See also Cohosh.

Syn: blue cohosh, blueberry root, papoose root, squawroot, squaw root, Caulophyllum thalictrioides, Caulophyllum thalictroides.

Caulophyllum thalictroides

Cohosh \Co"hosh\, n. (Bot.) A perennial American herb ( Caulophyllum thalictroides), whose rootstock is used in medicine; -- also called pappoose root. The name is sometimes also given to the Cimicifuga racemosa, and to two species of Act[ae]a, plants of the Crowfoot family.

Divertise

Divertise \Di*vert"ise\, v. t. [F. divertir, p. pr. divertissant.] To divert; to entertain. [Obs.]
--Dryden.

Sportule

Sportule \Spor"tule\ (-t[=u]l), n. [L. sportula a little basket, a gift, dim. of sporta a basket: cf. F. sportule.] A charitable gift or contribution; a gift; an alms; a dole; a largess; a sportula. [Obs.]
--Ayliffe.

Stoor

Stoor \Stoor\, v. i. [Cf. D. storen to disturb. Cf. Stir.] To rise in clouds, as dust. [Prov. Eng.]

Stoor

Stoor \Stoor\, Stor \Stor\, a. [AS. st[=o]r; akin to LG. stur, Icel. st[=o]rr.] Strong; powerful; hardy; bold; audacious. [Obs. or Scot.]

O stronge lady stoor, what doest thou?
--Chaucer.

Automata

Automaton \Au*tom"a*ton\, n.; pl. L. Automata, E. Automatons. [L. fr. Gr. ?, neut. of ? self-moving; ? self + a root ma, man, to strive, think, cf. ? to strive. See Mean, v. i.]

  1. Any thing or being regarded as having the power of spontaneous motion or action.
    --Huxley.

    So great and admirable an automaton as the world.
    --Boyle.

    These living automata, human bodies.
    --Boyle.

  2. A self-moving machine, or one which has its motive power within itself; -- applied chiefly to machines which appear to imitate spontaneously the motions of living beings, such as men, birds, etc.

Printing out

Printing out \Printing out\ (Photog.) A method of printing, in which the image is fully brought out by the direct actinic action of light without subsequent development by means of chemicals.

Peccantly

Peccantly \Pec"cant*ly\, adv. In a peccant manner.

burn out

burn out \burn out\ v. i.

  1. To burn till the fuel is exhausted; as, when the candle burned out the room was totally dark; the firefighters couldn't control the oil tank fire and had to let it burn out by itself.

  2. To stop functioning due to failure of some component caused by the heat of the electrical current used in its operation; -- of electrical devices.

  3. To become apathetic or depressed, and cease to function effectively, due to the fatigue and frustration of prolonged stress and overwork; -- of people; as, the stress in the bond market is so great that many traders burn out after only ten years on the job.

Travois

Travois \Tra`vois"\, n. [Cf. Travail.]

  1. A primitive vehicle, common among the North American Indians, usually two trailing poles serving as shafts and bearing a platform or net for a load.

    On the plains they will have horses dragging travoises; dogs with travoises, women and children loaded with impediments.
    --Julian Ralph.

  2. A logging sled. [Northern U. S. & Canada]

Sestet

Sestet \Ses*tet"\, n. [It. sestetto, fr. sesto sixth, L. sextus, fr. sex six.]

  1. (Mus.) A piece of music composed for six voices or six instruments; a sextet; -- called also sestuor. [Written also sestett, sestette.]

  2. (Poet.) The last six lines of a sonnet.

Unspike

Unspike \Un*spike"\, v. t. [1st pref. un- + spike.] To remove a spike from, as from the vent of a cannon.

Pressure wires

Pressure wires \Pressure wires\ (Elec.) Wires leading from various points of an electric system to a central station, where a voltmeter indicates the potential of the system at those points.

Abscond

Abscond \Ab*scond"\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Absconded; p. pr. & vb. n. Absconding.] [L. abscondere to hide; ab, abs + condere to lay up; con + d[a^]re (only in comp.) to put. Cf. Do.]

  1. To hide, withdraw, or be concealed.

    The marmot absconds all winter.
    --Ray.

  2. To depart clandestinely; to steal off and secrete one's self; -- used especially of persons who withdraw to avoid a legal process; as, an absconding debtor.

    That very homesickness which, in regular armies, drives so many recruits to abscond.
    --Macaulay.

Abscond

Abscond \Ab*scond"\, v. t. To hide; to conceal. [Obs.]
--Bentley.

To ring out

Ring \Ring\ (r[i^]ng), v. t. [imp. Rang (r[a^]ng) or Rung (r[u^]ng); p. p. Rung; p. pr. & vb. n. Ringing.] [AS. hringan; akin to Icel. hringja, Sw. ringa, Dan. ringe, OD. ringhen, ringkelen. [root]19.]

  1. To cause to sound, especially by striking, as a metallic body; as, to ring a bell.

  2. To make (a sound), as by ringing a bell; to sound.

    The shard-borne beetle, with his drowsy hums, Hath rung night's yawning peal.
    --Shak.

  3. To repeat often, loudly, or earnestly.

    To ring a peal, to ring a set of changes on a chime of bells.

    To ring the changes upon. See under Change.

    To ring in or To ring out, to usher, attend on, or celebrate, by the ringing of bells; as, to ring out the old year and ring in the new.
    --Tennyson.

    To ring the bells backward, to sound the chimes, reversing the common order; -- formerly done as a signal of alarm or danger.
    --Sir W. Scott.

Butterbird

Butterbird \But"ter*bird`\, n. (Zo["o]l.) The rice bunting or bobolink; -- so called in the island of Jamaica.

Street Arab

Street \Street\ (str[=e]t), n. [OE. strete, AS. str[=ae]t, fr. L. strata (sc. via) a paved way, properly fem. p. p. of sternere, stratum, to spread; akin to E. strew. See Strew, and cf. Stratum, Stray, v. & a.]

  1. Originally, a paved way or road; a public highway; now commonly, a thoroughfare in a city or village, bordered by dwellings or business houses.

    He removed [the body of] Amasa from the street unto the field.
    --Coverdale.

    At home or through the high street passing.
    --Milton.

    Note: In an extended sense, street designates besides the roadway, the walks, houses, shops, etc., which border the thoroughfare.

    His deserted mansion in Duke Street.
    --Macaulay.

  2. the roadway of a street[1], as distinguished from the sidewalk; as, children playing in the street.

  3. the inhabitants of a particular street; as, the whole street knew about their impending divorce. The street (Broker's Cant), that thoroughfare of a city where the leading bankers and brokers do business; also, figuratively, those who do business there; as, the street would not take the bonds. on the street,

    1. homeless.

    2. unemployed. (a) not in prison, or released from prison; the murderer is still on the street.

      Street Arab, Street broker, etc. See under Arab, Broker, etc.

      Street door, a door which opens upon a street, or is nearest the street.

      street person, a homeless person; a vagrant.

      Syn: See Way.

Street Arab

Arab \Ar"ab\ (?; 277), n. [Prob. ultimately fr. Heb. arabah a desert, the name employed, in the Old Testament, to denote the valley of the Jordan and Dead Se

  1. Ar. Arab, He

  2. arabi, arbi, arbim: cf. F. Arabe, L. Arabs, Gr. ?.] One of a swarthy race occupying Arabia, and numerous in Syria, Northern Africa, et

  3. Street Arab, a homeless vagabond in the streets of a city, particularly and outcast boy or girl.
    --Tylor.

    The ragged outcasts and street Arabs who are shivering in damp doorways.
    --Lon

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Quintuple time

Quintuple \Quin"tu*ple\, a. [L. quintus fifth: cf. F. quintuple, L. quintuplex. Cf. Quadruple.] Multiplied by five; increased to five times the amount; fivefold.

Quintuple time (Mus.), a time having five beats in a measure. It is seldom used.

Gobbled

Gobble \Gob"ble\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Gobbled; p. pr. & vb. n. Gobbling.] [Freq. of 2d gob.]

  1. To swallow or eat greedily or hastily; to gulp.

    Supper gobbled up in haste.
    --Swift.

  2. To utter (a sound) like a turkey cock.

    He . . . gobbles out a note of self-approbation.
    --Goldsmith.

    To gobble up, to capture in a mass or in masses; to capture suddenly. [Slang]

Alluvia

Alluvium \Al*lu"vi*um\, n.; pl. E. Alluviums, L. Alluvia. [L., neut. of alluvius. See Alluvious.] (Geol.) Deposits of earth, sand, gravel, and other transported matter, made by rivers, floods, or other causes, upon land not permanently submerged beneath the waters of lakes or seas.
--Lyell.

To a degree

Degree \De*gree"\, n. [F. degr['e], OF. degret, fr. LL. degradare. See Degrade.]

  1. A step, stair, or staircase. [Obs.]

    By ladders, or else by degree.
    --Rom. of R.

  2. One of a series of progressive steps upward or downward, in quality, rank, acquirement, and the like; a stage in progression; grade; gradation; as, degrees of vice and virtue; to advance by slow degrees; degree of comparison.

  3. The point or step of progression to which a person has arrived; rank or station in life; position. ``A dame of high degree.''
    --Dryden. ``A knight is your degree.''
    --Shak. ``Lord or lady of high degree.''
    --Lowell.

  4. Measure of advancement; quality; extent; as, tastes differ in kind as well as in degree.

    The degree of excellence which proclaims genius, is different in different times and different places.
    --Sir. J. Reynolds.

  5. Grade or rank to which scholars are admitted by a college or university, in recognition of their attainments; also, (informal) the diploma provided by an educational institution attesting to the achievement of that rank; as, the degree of bachelor of arts, master, doctor, etc.; to hang one's degrees on the office wall.

    Note: In the United States diplomas are usually given as the evidence of a degree conferred. In the humanities the first degree is that of bachelor of arts (B. A. or A. B.); the second that of master of arts (M. A. or A. M.). The degree of bachelor (of arts, science, divinity, law, etc.) is conferred upon those who complete a prescribed course of undergraduate study. The first degree in medicine is that of doctor of medicine (M. D.). The degrees of master and doctor are also conferred, in course, upon those who have completed certain prescribed postgraduate studies, as doctor of philosophy (Ph. D.); the degree of doctor is also conferred as a complimentary recognition of eminent services in science or letters, or for public services or distinction (as doctor of laws (LL. D.) or doctor of divinity (D. D.), when they are called honorary degrees.

    The youth attained his bachelor's degree, and left the university.
    --Macaulay.

  6. (Genealogy) A certain distance or remove in the line of descent, determining the proximity of blood; one remove in the chain of relationship; as, a relation in the third or fourth degree.

    In the 11th century an opinion began to gain ground in Italy, that third cousins might marry, being in the seventh degree according to the civil law.
    --Hallam.

  7. (Arith.) Three figures taken together in numeration; thus, 140 is one degree, 222,140 two degrees.

  8. (Algebra) State as indicated by sum of exponents; more particularly, the degree of a term is indicated by the sum of the exponents of its literal factors; thus, a^ 2b^ 3c is a term of the sixth degree. The degree of a power, or radical, is denoted by its index, that of an equation by the greatest sum of the exponents of the unknown quantities in any term; thus, ax^ 4 + bx^ 2 = c, and mx^ 2y^ 2 + nyx = p, are both equations of the fourth degree.

  9. (Trig.) A 360th part of the circumference of a circle, which part is taken as the principal unit of measure for arcs and angles. The degree is divided into 60 minutes and the minute into 60 seconds.

  10. A division, space, or interval, marked on a mathematical or other instrument, as on a thermometer.

  11. (Mus.) A line or space of the staff.

    Note: The short lines and their spaces are added degrees.

    Accumulation of degrees. (Eng. Univ.) See under Accumulation.

    By degrees, step by step; by little and little; by moderate advances. ``I'll leave it by degrees.''
    --Shak.

    Degree of a curve or Degree of a surface (Geom.), the number which expresses the degree of the equation of the curve or surface in rectilinear co["o]rdinates. A straight line will, in general, meet the curve or surface in a number of points equal to the degree of the curve or surface and no more.

    Degree of latitude (Geog.), on the earth, the distance on a meridian between two parallels of latitude whose latitudes differ from each other by one degree. This distance is not the same on different parts of a meridian, on account of the flattened figure of the earth, being 68.702 statute miles at the equator, and 69.396 at the poles.

    Degree of longitude, the distance on a parallel of latitude between two meridians that make an angle of one degree with each other at the poles -- a distance which varies as the cosine of the latitude, being at the equator 69.16 statute miles.

    To a degree, to an extreme; exceedingly; as, mendacious to a degree.

    It has been said that Scotsmen . . . are . . . grave to a degree on occasions when races more favored by nature are gladsome to excess.
    --Prof. Wilson.

Subpericardial

Subpericardial \Sub*per`i*car"di*al\, a. (Anat.) Situated under the cardiac pericardium.

Adenoidal

Adenoid \Ad"e*noid\, Adenoidal \Ad`e*noid"al\a. Glandlike; glandular.

aquilegia

aquilegia \aquilegia\ n. 1. a plant of the genus Aquilegia having irregular showy spurred flowers; N temperate regions esp. mountains.

Syn: columbine, aquilege

tournure

Bustle \Bus"tle\, n. A kind of pad or cushion worn on the back below the waist, by women, to give fullness to the skirts; -- called also bishop, and tournure.

Neglectingly

Neglectingly \Neg*lect"ing*ly\, adv. Carelessly; heedlessly.
--Shak.

Plate paper

Plate \Plate\, n. [OF. plate a plate of metal, a cuirsas, F. plat a plate, a shallow vessel of silver, other metal, or earth, fr. plat flat, Gr. ?. See Place, n.]

  1. A flat, or nearly flat, piece of metal, the thickness of which is small in comparison with the other dimensions; a thick sheet of metal; as, a steel plate.

  2. Metallic armor composed of broad pieces.

    Mangled . . . through plate and mail.
    --Milton.

  3. Domestic vessels and utensils, as flagons, dishes, cups, etc., wrought in gold or silver.

  4. Metallic ware which is plated, in distinction from that which is silver or gold throughout.

  5. A small, shallow, and usually circular, vessel of metal or wood, or of earth glazed and baked, from which food is eaten at table.

  6. [Cf. Sp. plata silver.] A piece of money, usually silver money. [Obs.] ``Realms and islands were as plates dropp'd from his pocket.''
    --Shak.

  7. A piece of metal on which anything is engraved for the purpose of being printed; hence, an impression from the engraved metal; as, a book illustrated with plates; a fashion plate.

  8. A page of stereotype, electrotype, or the like, for printing from; as, publisher's plates.

  9. That part of an artificial set of teeth which fits to the mouth, and holds the teeth in place. It may be of gold, platinum, silver, rubber, celluloid, etc.

  10. (Arch.) A horizontal timber laid upon a wall, or upon corbels projecting from a wall, and supporting the ends of other timbers; also used specifically of the roof plate which supports the ends of the roof trusses or, in simple work, the feet of the rafters.

  11. (Her.) A roundel of silver or tinctured argent.

  12. (Photog.) A sheet of glass, porcelain, metal, etc., with a coating that is sensitive to light.

  13. A prize giving to the winner in a contest.

  14. (Baseball) A small five-sided area (enveloping a diamond-shaped area one foot square) beside which the batter stands and which must be touched by some part of a player on completing a run; -- called also home base, or home plate.

  15. One of the thin parts of the bricket of an animal.

  16. A very light steel racing horsehoe.

  17. Loosely, a sporting contest for a prize; specif., in horse racing, a race for a prize, the contestants not making a stake.

  18. Skins for fur linings of garments, sewed together and roughly shaped, but not finally cut or fitted. [Furrier's Cant]

  19. (Hat Making) The fine nap (as of beaver, hare's wool, musquash, nutria, or English black wool) on a hat the body of which is of an inferior substance.

  20. a quantity sufficient to fill a plate; a plateful; a dish containing that quantity; a plate of spaghetti.

  21. the food and service supplied to a customer at a restaurant; as, the turkey dinner is $9 a plate; I'll have a plate of spaghetti.

  22. a flat dish of glass or plastic with a fitted cover, used for culturing microorganisms in a laboratory.

  23. the identification tag required to be displayed on the outside of a vehicle; same as license plate; -- often used in the plural.

  24. an agenda or schedule of tasks to be performed; I have a lot on my plate today. [colloq.] Note: Plate is sometimes used in an adjectival sense or in combination, the phrase or compound being in most cases of obvious signification; as, plate basket or plate-basket, plate rack or plate-rack. Home plate. (Baseball) See Home base, under Home. Plate armor.

    1. See Plate, n., 2.

    2. Strong metal plates for protecting war vessels, fortifications, and the like.

      Plate bone, the shoulder blade, or scapula.

      Plate girder, a girder, the web of which is formed of a single vertical plate, or of a series of such plates riveted together.

      Plate glass. See under Glass.

      Plate iron, wrought iron plates.

      Plate layer, a workman who lays down the rails of a railway and fixes them to the sleepers or ties.

      Plate mark, a special mark or emblematic figure stamped upon gold or silver plate, to indicate the place of manufacture, the degree of purity, and the like; thus, the local mark for London is a lion.

      Plate paper, a heavy spongy paper, for printing from engraved plates.
      --Fairholt.

      Plate press, a press with a flat carriage and a roller, -- used for printing from engraved steel or copper plates.

      Plate printer, one who prints from engraved plates.

      Plate printing, the act or process of printing from an engraved plate or plates.

      Plate tracery. (Arch.) See under Tracery.

      Plate wheel (Mech.), a wheel, the rim and hub of which are connected by a continuous plate of metal, instead of by arms or spokes.

N2O5

Nitric \Ni"tric\, a. [Cf. F. nitrique. See Niter.] (Chem.) Of, pertaining to, or containing, nitrogen; specifically, designating any one of those compounds in which, as contrasted with nitrous compounds, the element has a higher valence; as, nitric oxide; nitric acid.

Nitric acid, a colorless or yellowish liquid obtained by distilling a nitrate with sulphuric acid. It is powerfully corrosive, being a strong acid, and in decomposition a strong oxidizer.

Nitric anhydride, a white crystalline oxide of nitrogen ( N2O5), called nitric pentoxide, and regarded as the anhydride of nitric acid.

Nitric oxide, a colorless poisous gas ( NO) obtained by treating nitric acid with copper. On contact with the air or with oxygen, it becomes reddish brown from the formation of nitrogen dioxide ( NO2, also called nitric dioxide or nitric peroxide).

Olid

Olid \Ol"id\, Olidous \Ol"i*dous\, a. [L. olidus, fr. olere to smell.] Having a strong, disagreeable smell; fetid. [Obs.]
--Boyle.
--Sir T. Browne.

Wiktionary
blue mussels

n. (blue mussel English)

yellows

n. 1 (plural of yellow English) 2 (context archaic English) A disease of the bile in horses, cattle, and sheep, causing yellowness of the eyes. 3 (context archaic English) A disease of plants, especially peach trees, in which the leaf turn a yellowish colour. vb. (en-third-person singular of: yellow)

clusterised

a. (alternative form of clusterized English)

adoptabilities

n. (plural of adoptability English)

went to bed

vb. (en-simple past of: go to bed)

diving masks

n. (diving mask English)

reformade

n. (context obsolete English) A reformado.

cryptanalytical

a. cryptanalytic

planesful

n. (plural of planeful English)

pushful

a. energetic; pushy. (from 19th c.)

fract

vb. (context obsolete English) To break; to violate.

puerperal fevers

n. (plural of puerperal fever English)

leading reins

n. (leading rein English)

wall of text

n. (context chiefly Internet slang English) An intimidatingly large block of writing, particularly one with few or no paragraph breaks.

polistine

n. Any of the wasps of the subfamily Polistinae.

phytoreoviruses

n. (plural of phytoreovirus English)

fabricate

vb. 1 (context transitive English) To form into a whole by uniting its parts; to frame; to construct; to build. 2 (context transitive English) To form by art and labor; to manufacture; to produce. 3 (context transitive English) To invent and form; to forge; to devise falsely. 4 (context transitive cooking English) To cut up an animal as preparation for cooking, particularly used in reference to fowl.

cancerette

n. (context slang derogatory English) A cigarette.

divertise

vb. (context obsolete transitive English) To divert; to entertain.

alveolo-palatal

a. (alternative spelling of alveolopalatal English)

sportule

n. (context obsolete English) A charitable gift or contribution; alms; a sportula.

stoor

Etymology 1 alt. 1 (context intransitive UK dialectal English) To move; stir. 2 (context intransitive UK dialectal English) To move actively; keep stirring. 3 (context intransitive UK dialectal English) To rise up in clouds, as smoke, dust, etc. 4 (context transitive UK dialectal English) To stir up, as liquor. 5 (context transitive UK dialectal English) To pour; pour leisurely out of any vessel held high. 6 (context transitive UK dialectal English) To sprinkle. n. 1 (context UK dialectal English) Stir; bustle; agitation; contention. 2 (context UK dialectal English) A gush of water. 3 (context UK dialectal English) spray. 4 (context UK dialectal English) A sufficient quanity of yeast for brewing. vb. 1 (context intransitive UK dialectal English) To move; stir. 2 (context intransitive UK dialectal English) To move actively; keep stirring. 3 (context intransitive UK dialectal English) To rise up in clouds, as smoke, dust, etc. 4 (context transitive UK dialectal English) To stir up, as liquor. 5 (context transitive UK dialectal English) To pour; pour leisurely out of any vessel held high. 6 (context transitive UK dialectal English) To sprinkle. Etymology 2

  1. (alternative form of stour English)

fed out off

vb. (en-pastfeed out of)

automata

alt. (plural of automaton English) n. (plural of automaton English)

climatographies

n. (plural of climatography English)

bling out

vb. (context transitive English) to make more shiny, attractive or elegant.

vergeboards

n. (plural of vergeboard English)

nonsemisimple

a. Not semisimple.

abortuses

n. (plural of abortus English)

move out

vb. 1 To vacate one's place of residence or employment. 2 To leave one's present location.

peccantly

adv. In a peccant manner.

out and about

a. (context idiomatic English) Traveling; out; moving; engaged in regular day to day activities.

tetradecamer

n. An oligomer having fourteen subunits

convertee

n. One who is converted.

working out

vb. (present participle of work out English)

dished out

vb. (en-pastdish out)

robber-baron

n. (alternative spelling of robber baron English)

burn out

vb. 1 To extinguish due to lack of fuel. 2 (context idiomatic English) To tire due to overwork. 3 (context idiomatic English) To make (someone) unavailable for work involving exposure to ionizing radiation by employing (the person) in such work until the person's accumulated exposure reaches the maximum permitted for an administrative period, typically a year.

growe

vb. (archaic spelling of grow English)

a la carte

a. (alternative form of à la carte English) adv. (alternative form of à la carte English)

tap out

vb. 1 (context transitive English) To produce (a message, rhythm, or other thing) by tapping. 2 (context combat sports English) To submit to an opponent by tapping one's hand repeatedly either on the arena or the opponent's body. 3 (context combat sports transitive English) To force (an opponent) to submit. 4 To deplete, especially of a liquid

like it's going out of style

alt. (context simile colloquial English) enthusiastically, to an excessive degree. phr. (context simile colloquial English) enthusiastically, to an excessive degree.

underrecruit

vb. To recruit to less than the normal or preferable degree

out loud

adv. (context idiomatic English) Using the voice; not silently; aloud.

bobaunce

n. (obsolete form of bobance English)

short out

vb. To short circuit.

browned out

vb. (en-pastbrown out)

travois

n. A traditional North American Indian sled-like vehicle, pulled by person, dog, or horse.

blank out

vb. (context intransitive idiomatic English) To become blank.

bonded labours

n. (bonded labour English)

sestet

n. 1 (context music English) A piece of music composed for six voices or six instruments; a sextet or sestuor. 2 (context poetry English) The last six lines of a poem.

deaveraging

vb. (present participle of deaverage English)

beat someone's brains out

vb. (context idiomatic English) To beat someone very severely.

oo-

pre. egg, ovum

watched out

vb. (en-pastwatch out)

out of one's sight

adv. In a place where one cannot see it.

gutsed out

vb. (en-past of: guts out)

unspike

vb. To remove a spike from.

stamp out

vb. 1 to extinguish by stamping. 2 (context idiomatic English) To totally get rid of; to eradicate.

can opener

alt. 1 A device used to open tin cans, usually by slicing the lid off. 2 (context roller derby English) A shoulder hit to the chest, usually accomplished while moving from a crouched to a standing position. n. 1 A device used to open tin cans, usually by slicing the lid off. 2 (context roller derby English) A shoulder hit to the chest, usually accomplished while moving from a crouched to a standing position.

blinging out

vb. (present participle of bling out English)

abscond

vb. 1 (context intransitive reflexive archaic English) To hide, to be in hiding or concealment. 2 (context intransitive reflexive English) To flee, often secretly; to steal away, particularly to avoid arrest or prosecution. (From mid 16th century.) 3 (context intransitive English) To withdraw from. (From mid 16th century.)(R:SOED5: page=8) 4 (context transitive obsolete English) To conceal; to take away. (First attested in the late 16th century.)

weasel word

n. (context pejorative English) A word used to qualify a statement so as to make it potentially misleading. vb. To use weasel words.

overextend

vb. 1 To expand or extend to an excessive degree, especially to do so beyond a safe limit 2 (context linguistics transitive English) To apply (a term) to too many referents, by overextension.

transients

n. (plural of transient English)

unbelievably

adv. 1 (context manner English) In a manner that one does not believe. 2 (context degree English) To an extent not to be believed. 3 (context evaluative English) Contrary to expectations, amazingly.

barens

n. (plural of baren English)

snickerings

n. (plural of snickering English)

conjurable

a. Able to be conjured.

thieve out

vb. to walk out of a place stealthily

hyphenated compound

n. (context grammar English) A compound word combined using hyphens, such as get-together, half-baked, two-tone, or broad-minded.

hashed out

vb. (en-pasthash out)

butterbird

n. (context Jamaica English) The bobolink.

street arab

n. (context dated now offensive English) A homeless child who roams the streets, usually begging for handouts; a street urchin.

nanosized

a. Having a size measured in nanometers

methoserpidine

n. An antihypertensive drug related to reserpine.

sorels

n. (plural of sorel English)

diabetics

n. (plural of diabetic English)

critomancy

n. (alternative spelling of crithomancy English)

neath

alt. (context poetic English) beneath. prep. (context poetic English) beneath.

genus name

n. (context biology taxonomy English) The scientific name of a genus may be called the generic name or generic epithet: it is always capitalized.

icosaspheres

n. (plural of icosasphere English)

no news is good news

prov. A lack of information about a situation suggests that nothing bad has happened.

news anchors

n. (news anchor English)

gippoes

n. (plural of gippo English)

gobbled

vb. (en-past of: gobble)

gobstruck

a. (context slang chiefly UK English) gobsmacked; astonished; astounded

alluvia

n. (plural of alluvium English)

high-tech

a. (alternative spelling of hi-tech English)

holours

n. (plural of holour English)

quinoid

a. (context organic chemistry English) having a structure based upon a quinone n. (context organic chemistry English) any substance whose structure is based upon a quinone

sophrologists

n. (plural of sophrologist English)

extatick

a. (obsolete form of ecstatic English)

take air

vb. To be divulged; to be made public.

to a degree

prep.phr. To an extreme; exceedingly.

subpericardial

a. (context anatomy English) Situated under the cardiac pericardium.

slush fund

n. Money stored for illegal or dishonest purposes.

adenoidal

a. 1 (context anatomy English) Pertaining to the adenoids 2 (context of a voice English) Sounding as if the speaker had swollen adenoids

snicks

n. (plural of snick English)

ungelds

n. (plural of ungeld English)

tournure

n. 1 turn; contour; figure 2 Any device used by women to expand the skirt of a dress below the waist; a bustle.

transliterations

n. (plural of transliteration English)

neglectingly

adv. Carelessly; heedlessly.

plate paper

n. A heavy spongy paper, for printing from engraved plates.

tab controls

n. (tab control English)

olid

a. (label en rare) evil-smelling; fetid.

Usage examples of "olid".

Alvarado and Olid met with no resistance in establishing themselves at Tlacopan.