Wiktionary
1 Having some sort of divine harm, malady, or other curse. 2 (context obsolete English) Shrewish, ill-tempered (often applied to women). alt. 1 Having some sort of divine harm, malady, or other curse. 2 (context obsolete English) Shrewish, ill-tempered (often applied to women). v
(en-past of: curse)
a. (alternative form of cursed English)
n. A type of biscuit (cookie), popular in Britain, traditionally made from one part sugar, two parts butter and three parts flour
n. A speech or treatise consisting of nine parts or chapters; any work in nine parts (compare trilogy (3-part), tetralogy (4-part), etc.).
vb. (context transitive English) To heat food for the purpose of killing harmful organisms such as bacteria, viruses, protozoa, molds, and yeasts.
prov. 1 get married too soon will lead to a bad marriage. 2 Joining (or merging) two things together too soon will lead to problems.
n. (plural of grapeshot English)
n. slogan for the reunification of China as one country, but with areas like Hong Kong and Taiwan with separate economic and political systems.
n. (context zoology English) Any member of the Listrophoridae.
n. 1 The process of sexual development of children that makes them into adolescents capable of reproducing sexually (i.e., making babies through sexual intercourse), and makes them have secondary sex characteristics. 2 The age at which a person is first capable of sexual reproduction.
n. (plural of mesoappendix English)
n. (context US education English) The period in school that comes after first grade and before third grade.
vb. (context archaic English) (en-archaic second-person singular of: savour)
vb. (standard spelling of from=Non-Oxford British spelling lang=en customize)
a. (alternative form of interracial English)
n. A kind of gimlet for making vents in casks.
n. (plural of sabzi English)
a. Having undergone ultrapasteurization.
a. Not historical; not based on history.
n. (plural of boarding house English)
n. 1 The seating area at a stadium or arena; the bleachers. 2 The audience at a public event. vb. (context intransitive English) To behave dramatically or showily to impress an audience or observers; to pander to a crowd.
n. (plural of pedometre English)
n. (plural of rhapsode English)
Usage examples of "rhapsodes".
Henry, laughing at the antics of a trio of jugglers, shared a cup of wine with a pretty young woman who looked a few years younger than Sanglant.
They were a sadly bedraggled trio, sodden with rain, smeared with mud, their armour in tatters.
Danielle knew without turning around that the snow-haired trio was again exchanging glances.
So I found another gig with a drummer, Manzy Harris, who formed a trio with me and Otto McQueen on bass.
A trio of marlets, their white rumps flashing, raced through a small wood and broke into the open.
She testified that she and her friends Mela Merwoman and Ida Human had been sent by the Simurgh to rescue the stranded trio, and had done so, with the help of a Seed of Thyme and some negotiation.
Hawker fired and the Molt sagged in on himself, spitted on a trio of amber tracks: smoke concealed the normal cyan flash of the power gun but shock waves from the superheated air made their own mark on the brush of high-frequency sound.
Thus the trio sped through the coming of autumn dusk, outflying the fallen leaves that tumbled upon the wind.
They heard the clicking of scissors and the humming of clippers, overlaid with the voices, supposedly, of the trio of men standing frozen behind each of the chairs.
The push rod was screwed into a miniature piston head which, in turn, actuated a trio of switches.
The most striking of the trio was a young Hutt, reclining with a bored expression and an impatient twitch in his thickly muscled tail.
However, the trio had scarcely arrived when Lord Sarp Redbeard accused Kelemvor of murdering a local merchant.
The trio of the scherzo is like a section of some Polynesian forest, with its tropic warmth, its monstrous growths, its swampy earth, its chattering monkeys and birds of paradise.
With his handcart laden with explosives, he and his trio of skinhead assistants vanished in the shadows of the long tunnel.
Kingston Trio sang in their choirboy voices, it abruptly occurred to me that the wallpaper man could turn out to be Jack Speight with a different name.