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n. 1 The formal performance of a solemn rite, such as Christian sacrament 2 The observance of a holiday or feast day, as by solemnities 3 The act, process of showing appreciation, gratitude and/or remembrance, notably as a social event. 4 A social gathering for entertainment and fun; a party.
n. 1 (context uncountable English) The inability to read. 2 (context uncountable English) The portion of a population unable to read, generally given as a percentage. 3 (context countable English) A word, phrase(,) or grammatical turn thought to be characteristic of an illiterate person.
n. (plural of dimestore English)
n. (plural of identikit English)
vb. (context archaic English) (en-third-person singular of: sprawl)
n. 1 (context British informal English) Short form of pantomime 2 (context rail transport informal English) Short form of pantograph
n. The quality of being alible; nourishingness.
n. (plural of shovelard English)
n. (plural of positronium English)
a. Pertaining to anaphylaxis.
vb. To conjure back; to bring something back as if by magic
vb. (en-past of: demineralise)
a. (en-comparativefabby)
n. (plural of substudy English)
interj. (context British colloquial dated English) A greeting.
n. (plural of seminist English)
n. The scientific study correlate ethnic groups, their health, and how it relates to their physical habits and methodology in creating and using medicines.
n. (context enzyme English) amidoligase
vb. (en-past of: consternate)
n. 1 The small spiked wheel on the end of a spur. 2 A little flat ring or wheel on a horse's bit. 3 A roll of hair, silk, etc., passed through the flesh of a horse in the manner of a seton in human surgery. vb. 1 (context transitive English) To use a rowel on something, especially to drain fluid. 2 (context transitive English) To incite, to goad.
n. (plural of translavation English)
a. (context chemistry English) Of, relating to, derived from, or resembling, phenyl or phenol.
vb. (en-archaic third-person singular of: inhabit)
n. interchange, exchange
n. 1 (context pathology English) An open sore of the skin, eyes or mucous membrane, often caused by an initial abrasion and generally maintained by an inflammation and/or an infection. 2 (context pathology English) peptic ulcer 3 (context figurative English) Anything that festers and corrupts like an open sore; a vice in character.
n. (plural of divergence English)
a. dominated or plagued by violence.
vb. (en-past of: encage)
n. The belief that dualism or dichotomy are illusory phenomena, that things such as mind and body may remain distinct while not actually being separate.
n. (plural of nanowall English)
n. (context rare English) A counter bond, or a surety to secure one who has given security.
n. 1 (context linguistics English) A sound change in which [b] (the voiced bilabial plosive) shifts to [v] (the voiced labiodental fricative). 2 A speech disorder involving excessive use of the [b] sound, or conversion of other sounds into it.
abbr. engineering
n. Storage space on a ship.
n. (plural of clergywoman English)
n. (context physics English) an idealized solid whose size and shape are fixed and remain unaltered when forces are applied; used in Newtonian mechanics to model real objects
n. 1 Wet sand that things readily sink in, often found near rivers or coasts 2 Anything that pulls one down or buries one metaphorically
a. Not feline, or not pertaining to felines. n. A creature that is not feline.
n. 1 (context legal English) A written order, issued by a court, ordering someone to do (or stop doing) something. 2 authority, power to enforce compliance 3 (context obsolete English) that which is written; writing vb. (context dated nonstandard English) (past participle of write English)
a. Pertaining to erosion.
a. Having exaggerated articulation.
vb. (en-third-person singular of: unindent)
1 dark, faint or indistinct. 2 hidden, out of sight or inconspicuous. 3 Difficult to understand. v
(label en transitive) To render obscure; to darken; to make dim; to keep in the dark; to hide; to make less visible, intelligible, legible, glorious, beautiful, or illustrious.
n. A meteorite consisting of rock containing chondrules
adv. In an intercurrent way.
n. (plural of ambisexual English)
n. (eight-thousander English)
n. (plural of catchword English)
vb. (en-third-person singular of: eventuate)
n. (alternative form of potichomania English)
a. Referring or relating to real estate.
n. (chain gang English)
a. Not implied; unimplied.
n. (plural of zigzagging English)
n. The quality of being intrinsical; intrinsicality.
vb. 1 To make angry. 2 To make insane; to inflame with passion. 3 (context obsolete English) To become furious.
n. (plural of elbaite English)
n. A phenothiazine used for the treatment of migraine.
vb. (present participle of repunctuate English)
n. (plural of pretest English)
vb. (en-third-person singular of: bedaub)
n. (plural of downgrader English)
a. (alternative form of metaphrastic English)
alt. 1 (context British Canada informal English) A dense, yellowish fog. 2 (context Canada slang derogatory English) A French-Canadian person, especially a Francophone from the province of Québec. n. 1 (context British Canada informal English) A dense, yellowish fog. 2 (context Canada slang derogatory English) A French-Canadian person, especially a Francophone from the province of Québec.
a. (context poetic English) Marked with crow's feet, wrinkles about the eyes.
n. 1 A traditional Scottish garment, usually worn by men, having roughly the same morphology as a wrap-around skirt, with overlapping front aprons and pleated around the sides and back, and usually made of twill-woven worsted wool with a tartan pattern. (from 18th c.) 2 (label en historical) Any Scottish garment from which the above lies in a direct line of descent, such as the philibeg, or the great kilt or belted plaid; 3 A plaid, pleated school uniform skirt sometimes structured as a wrap around, sometimes pleated throughout the entire circumference; also used as boys' wear in 19th century USA. vb. To gather up (skirts) around the body. (from 14th c.)
n. (plural of auscultation English)
n. (plural of defibrillator English)
vb. (en-third-person singular of: endark)
a. 1 Of or pertaining to the exterior of the nose 2 Of or pertaining to that part of the brain exterior to the entorhinal cortex
n. Any of several species of fish in the genus (taxlink Brevoortia genus noshow=1) and (taxlink Ethmidium genus noshow=1), used for fish meal, fish oil, fertilizer, and bait.
n. (context geology English) The mechanics of rocks and soil
n. (context biochemistry English) Either of a pair of subunits of a complex
a. (context philosophy English) Of or pertaining to reliabilism n. (context philosophy English) A person who supports the doctrine of reliabilism
n. A fish, the three-bearded rockling.
n. (context organic chemistry English) Any salt or ester of diazoacetic acid; the esters react with alkenes to form cyclopropane derivatives
Not set; not fixed or appointed. v
(label en transitive) To make not set.
vb. 1 (context transitive English) To accuse or bring criminal charges against. 2 (context transitive English) To indicate the guilt of.
adv. (misspelling of in fact English)
n. (alternative form of catastasis English)
a. of, pertaining to or situated on a waterside n. The land bordering a body of water
n. (context zoology English) Any member of the Rajidae.
n. (plural of vigily English)
a. Of or pertaining to erythropoiesis.
a. (alternative form of unhandseled English)
n. (context music English) A non-musician who is active in a particular musical scene.
Usage examples of "scenester".
His soap had hardly stiffened afore it ran right back to lye and grease agin.
Chemicals, but it did not consume much space: the salt, the agar, a small box of lye, six ounces of absolute alcohol and four of formalin.
In the end she promised a great reward to my keeper for the custody of me one night, who for gaine of a little money accorded to her desire, and when I had supped in a Parler with my Master, we departed away and went into our Chamber, where we found the faire Matron, who had tarried a great space for our comming : I am not able to recite unto you how all things were prepared : there were foure Eunuches that lay on a bed of downe on the ground with Boulsters accordingly for us to lye on, the Coverlet was of cloth of Gold, and the pillowes soft and tender, whereon the delicate Matron had accustomed to lay her head.
Young Graig Lye, cousin to Bludd-slain Banron, buckled his sword harness so ferociously he struck sparks.
Howbeit for all their lyes and cavellations, they were carryed backe unto the towne, and put in prison by the Inhabitants, who taking the cup of gold, and the goddesse which I bare, did put and consecrate them amongst the treasure of the temple.
A group of new-sworn yearmen, Perches and Murdocks and Lyes, was sitting against the stairwall disassembling their gear belts and scabbards for cleaning.
Well, said he, since my life lyes in my learning, I will learn for my life, which he did so well, that he got in that twelve month their language, so perfect as he understood, and could speak most of it, in which time he understood all that I have delivered to the Reader, and besides understood that they had many Gods, and Goddesses.
After that I hadde receaved my dispache and leave fram your Majestie wherby you did of your Royall goodnes geave and graunt unto mee to be cheefe commaundere of al the warlyke foarces furneshed and sent by you into Daemonlond, hit may please your Majestie I did with haiste carry mine armie and all wepons municions vittualls and othere provicions accordingly toward those partes of Daemonlonde that lye coasted against the estern seas.
The wheeles, aboue the naues and axeltrees, were closed within the Chariot, and the sides thereof vnder the Harpies feete, bent somewhat vpward and growing lesser, turned rounde downward, wherevnto the furniture or trace to drawe it by, were fastned: and where the axeltree was, there vpon the side of the bottom of the Charriot, ouer the naue of the wheele, there came downe a prepention ioyning to the Plynth, twise so long as deepe, of two foliatures, one extending one way and the other an other way: and vpon the middle thereof and lowest part, was a Rose of fiue leaues, in the seede whereof, the ende of the axeltree did lye.
He had become entirely distracted by the text before him, which happened to be taxidermy, while the copy-cat continued to extrude copies of the crewel lye recipe.
The first is unsanctioned government intervention, which means nobody can know anything because anybody who does, official and otherwise, could end up in Leavenworth or in a lye pit.
The water that drips out contains sodium hydroxide, lye, which is a stronger cleanser.
Neyther did it refuse or make resistance to anye sharpe and newe assaulte of loue, which in my stroken and sore wounded heart woulde lye festering and feeding of himselfe.
The cabin smelt of hot food and lye soap, with a clean, faint tang of juniper overlaying the smoke of reed candles and the muskier scents of human occupation.
Left behind the empty lots filled with malt liquor bottles, left behind the storefront tabernacles, the faded, weather-battered posters for Red Devil lye, which black men had used to conk their hair straight in the Malcolm X era, left behind the teenage rapper wannabees and bucket percussion ensembles in Marcus Garvey Park, the stands selling toys and sandals and bling and kente-cloth wall hangings.