The Collaborative International Dictionary
Broomstick \Broom"stick`\, n. A stick used as a handle of a broom.
Insultation \In`sul*ta"tion\, n. [L. insultatio, fr. insultare: cf. OF. insultation.]
The act of insulting; abusive or insolent treatment; insult. [Obs.]
--Feltham.Exultation. [Obs.]
--Is. xiv. (heading).
Ozonize \O"zo*nize\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Ozonized; p. pr. & vb. n. Ozonizing.] (Chem.)
To convert into ozone, as oxygen.
To treat with ozone.
Wiktionary
vb. (context idiomatic English) To speak the truth; to say things as they really are.
n. (plural of tun English)
adv. With a thwacking sound.
n. 1 the handle of a broom - a tool used to sweep the floor 2 ''(witchcraft)'' A broom, imbued with magic enabling one to fly riding the handle.
n. A clock mounted on a wall.
n. A particular anticholinergic used as a mydriatic to permit better examination of the eye.
a. Of or pertaining to a provirus
vb. 1 (context transitive English) To defecate 2 (context intransitive English) To quit due to tiredness
n. incorrect form; quality of being malformed
n. 1 A perceived superiority based on nationality or ethnicity. 2 The belief that a particular nation is inherently superior to others.
vb. (present participle of overgaze English)
n. (alternative spelling of janggi English)
vb. (en-third-person singularpeter out)
n. (context slang English) A drunkard.
vb. (en-past of: scope out)
alt. 1 (context British English) The cuff on a trouser leg that is, or can be turned up. 2 The next card taken from the top of a pack of cards and displayed. n. 1 (context British English) The cuff on a trouser leg that is, or can be turned up. 2 The next card taken from the top of a pack of cards and displayed.
n. 1 The act or process of putting in; infusion. 2 That which is put in, as in an amount. 3 contribution, or share in a contribution. 4 Something fed into a process with the intention of it shaping or affecting the outputs of that process. vb. 1 (context transitive English) To put in; put on. 2 (context transitive English) To enter#Verb dat
3 (context transitive English) To accept data that is entered.
n. (plural of pudwhacker English)
n. The act or process of eroticize.
n. 1 (context obsolete English) The act of insulting; abusive or insolent treatment; insult. 2 (context obsolete English) exultation
n. A form of therapeutic intervention, used mainly with autistic children, in which the therapist meets the child at its current developmental level and entices it to move up a hierarchy of developmental milestones.
vb. (present participle of ozonize English)
Usage examples of "ozonizing".
I have an instinctive aversion to those cold, haughty, drawing-back characters, who are made up of the egotism of looking out for something that is wholly devoted to them, and that has not a breath to breathe that is not a sigh for their perfections.
But even when they came back alive they carried with them the germs of death, and another hecatomb ensued, another sacrifice to the monstrous god of social egotism.
In case of pressing necessity, could he exercise any authority over the capricious movements of the wilful Laureate, whose egotism was so absolute, whose imperious ways were so charming, whose commands were never questioned?
Like Jonathan Edwards, like David Osgood, he felt his call to be to study-work, and was impatient of the egotisms and spiritual megrims, in listening to which, especially from the younger females of his flock, his colleague had won the hearts of so many of his parishioners.
But neither the rich, musical voice nor the superb muliebrity of his companion could dull his perception of the fundamental egotism that shaped her views.
When the herd draws itself together in arms against the stranger it is a fall for those rare free spirits who love the whole world, but it raises the many who weakly vegetate in anarchistic egotism, and lifts them to that higher stage of organised selfishness.
Johnson was vain, loquacious, and offensively egotistic: Jackson, on the other hand, was proud, reserved, and with such abounding self-respect as excluded egotism.
It is really the stupid egotism of authors that is the stumbling-block in the way of true literature,--each little scribbler that produces a shilling sensational thinks his or her own work a marvel of genius, and nothing can shake them from their obstinate conviction.
The accommodations being greatly restricted, every body, from the moment of entering the boat, acts upon a system of unshrinking egotism.
He was quite well aware of such factors as ethnocentrism, to say nothing of egotism.
I needed to learn, from experts, that pure egotism that had always escaped me, for the little I had managed to build up, and which had so far only gone into my writing, was quickly vanquished by the sight of that tremulousness, that lost look in the eye, that disappointment that seemed to haunt me, to get in my way, even to obtrude on my consciousness, when I was busy building up my resources of selfishness.
Prince Andrew, with a beaming, ecstatic expression of renewed life on his face, paused in front of Pierre and, not noticing his sad look, smiled at him with the egotism of joy.
Some parents may be proficient and experienced freethinkers, and may never personally experience the terrible consequences of this egotism of theirs.
Like Jonathan Edwards, like David Osgood, he felt his call to be to study-work, and was impatient of the egotisms and spiritual megrims, in listening to which, especially from the younger females of his flock, his colleague had won the hearts of so many of his parishioners.
The child thus learns to distrust his or her own perceptions - both sensory and inward - moving further and further into emotional isolation, playing out games of egotism and conventional social ritual as a substitute for real life, consciousness and direct perception.