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cispontine

a. On this side of the bridge (or bridges)

a spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down

prov. An otherwise unpleasant situation can be pleasant when a pleasant aspect is deliberately introduced.

surjective

a. of, relating to, or being a surjection

oblique muscle

n. (context anatomy English) A muscle acting in a direction oblique to the mesial plane of the body, or to the associated muscles, applied especially to two muscles of the eyeball.

falsifieth

vb. (context archaic English) (en-third-person singular of: falsify)

saxaul

n. Any of three species of the amaranth genus ''Haloxylon'': (taxlink Haloxylon ammodendron species), (taxlink Haloxylon aphyllum species) (the black saxaul), and (taxlink Haloxylon persicum species) (the white saxaul).

babygirls

n. (plural of babygirl English)

beautiless

a. Lacking beauty.

annotation

n. 1 a critical or explanatory commentary or analysis 2 a comment added to a text 3 the process of writing such comment or commentary 4 (context computing English) metadata added to a document or program 5 (context genetics English) information relating to the genetic structure of sequences of bases

regressivity

n. The condition of being regressive

mesolimbic

a. (context anatomy English) Relating to the middle part of the limbic system

eugonadal

a. Having healthily functioning gonads.

common cockchafer

n. A species of cockchafer, (taxlink Melolontha melolontha species noshow=1).

tieback wall

n. A brick wall reinforced with horizontal wires for stability.

out of shape

a. (context idiomatic English) physically unfit

unoriginal

a. lacking originality

xerophthalmic

a. Of or pertaining to xerophthalmia.

centropagid

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

common buzzard

n. A bird of prey species, ''Buteo buteo''.

out of nowhere

adv. (context idiomatic English) In an unexpected or inexplicable manner of arrival or occurrence.

whitlow

n. An infection under the cuticle of a fingernail or toenail.

ring of steel

n. (context British English) A form of civil protection (using closed-circuit television, control zones and restricted access) that effectively seals off city centres and financial districts; used in Northern Ireland and City.

rescindeth

vb. (en-archaic third-person singular of: rescind)

coscreenwriters

n. (plural of coscreenwriter English)

krummhorn

n. 1 A mediaeval and Renaissance wind instrument. 2 A stop on an organ.

brown outs

n. (brown out English)

hell money

n. joss money burnt in Chinese ancestor worship

pre-incremented

vb. (en-pastpre-increment)

stores

n. (plural of store English)

Usage examples of "stores".

Walton family almost instinctively put a pretty tight lid on personal publicity for any of us, although we kept living out in the open and going around visiting folks in the stores all the time.

I think my coming by to visit the stores somehow means more to them now.

He had been a barber in Odessa, Missouri, before he and his brothers started a variety store chain which had grown to around sixty stores by that time.

New York named Blake, who traveled around the country auditing stores and evaluating personnel and whatnot, and he would come to see us pretty regularly.

The intersection where I worked in Des Moines had three stores, so at lunch I would always go wander around the Sears and the Yonkers stores to see what they were up to.

It was the smallest of the towns we considered, and it already had three variety stores, when one would have been enough.

Around this time, I read an article about these two Ben Franklin stores up in Minnesota that had gone to self-servicea brand-new concept at the time.

So here we were challenging two popular stores with a little old 18-foot independent variety store.

We made them up in his attic, and sold a ton of them at his stores and mine.

We opened variety stores, many of them Ben Franklin franchises, in Little Rock, Springdale, and Siloam Springs, Arkansas, and we had a couple more in Neodesha and Coffeyville, Kansas.

So I started running all over the country, studying the concept from the mill stores in the East to California, where Sol Price started his Fed-Mart in 1955.

He had already opened the Rogers Wal-Mart and he was up in Chicago trying to convince our officers to franchise his discount stores in small towns.

Ben Franklin stores, where if necessary you could simply look over what you needed and order it from Butler Brothers, then price it accordingly.

Crest at Springdaleand you stacked it high in the stores to call attention to what a great deal it was.

By the early sixties, we had eighteen variety stores and a handful of Wal-Marts.