Wiktionary
n. (context chemistry English) An explosive consisting of ammonium nitrate with hydrocarbons added.
a. (context AAVE archaic English) white n. (context rare AAVE derogatory English) A poor white person.
a. (alternative spelling of cross-party English)
n. (plural of dioxindole English)
n. 1 Formerly, an officer who attended magistrates and judges to execute their orders. 2 A messenger or officer who serves the process of an ecclesiastical court.
a. (context anatomy English) Of or pertaining to the uvula or the palate.
n. (context zoology English) Any member of the Clitellata.
vb. (present participle of overegg English)
a. Not easily deciphered; difficult to read.
vb. (present participle of cushion English)
vb. (en-pastwag)
n. A plot made in opposition to another; a counterploy. vb. (context intransitive transitive English) To form a plot or plan in opposition to the actions of another.
n. A sheltered room in which lemon plants are housed (in pots) during cold weather
n. (context organic chemistry English) The univalent radical CH3-CH=CH-CH2-
n. (label en legal Scotland) a stay or suspension of proceedings vb. 1 (label en legal Scotland) To stay (qualifier: e.g. judicial proceedings); to delay or suspend; to stop 2 (label en legal Scotland) to cause to take a place, as at the bar of a court; hence, to cite; to summon; to bring into court
n. (context mineralogy English) A black or steel-grey mineral consisting chiefly of the oxides of iron and titanium.
a. (context mycology English) Of or relating to a group of fungus that produce melanin in their cell walls, giving them a characteristic brown colour when grown on agar.
vb. 1 (context transitive English) To eat away by degrees; to wear away or diminish by gradually separating or destroying small particles of, as by action of a strong acid or a caustic alkali. 2 (context transitive English) To consume; to wear away; to prey upon; to impair. 3 (context intransitive English) To have corrosive action; to be subject to corrosion.
n. (plural of touser English)
n. (context pathology English) The inability of a man to obtain or sustain an erection. Abbreviation: ED
n. (context mineral English) A trigonal silvery gray mineral containing bismuth, lead, selenium, and sulfur.
n. (alternative form of forbode English)
n. A tree that bears a crop of edible fruit on a regular basis.
n. 1 Motion in a retrograde manner 2 decline, degradation 3 (context chemistry English) A reaction that takes place in gelatinized starch when the amylose and amylopectin chains realign themselves, largely responsible for bread becoming stale.
vb. (en-third-person singular of: give)
n. (context chemistry English) A salt, Na2CO3 formally derived from sodium hydroxide and carbonic acid; it is a white powder, soluble in water, with domestic, commercial and industrial uses; it occurs naturally as natrite
n. 1 (&lit other side English) 2 {{context|idiomatic|usually|preceded by (term the English) and sometimes capitalized|lang=en}} The afterlife, as a supernatural realm inhabited by spirits of deceased people.
n. (alternative spelling of Rickey English)
n. 1 The act of cleaning a ship's bottom. 2 (context obsolete English) An engraving. vb. (present participle of grave English)
vb. 1 (context archaic English) Render narrow or narrower; make strait; curtail (property). 2 (context rare literary English) constrain; bring into straits.
n. 1 (plural of mawk English) 2 hands
Occurring during wakefulness. n. The act of becoming awake from sleep, or a period of time spent awake. v
(present participle of wake English)
vb. 1 (context obsolete English) To deploy an artillery piece for firing (ie, to detach it from its limber#Noun). 2 (context by extension English) To clumsily put into employ a large weapon or object.
n. (data rate English)
n. 1 A gold coin worth twenty francs issued by Napoleon I; a twenty-franc coin. 2 A pastry of French origin, otherwise known as a custard slice, a vanilla slice, a mille-feuille.(w Mille-feuille Wp)
n. (context medicine English) A syndrome characterised by polycystic ovaries, menstrual disturbance, and high levels of androgens or insulin.
n. (plural of potato bug English)
vb. (en-past of: refactorize)
n. (plural of tinamid English)
Having or made of tiers v
(en-past of: tier)
n. An ancient British sport in which competitors race downhill after a rolling round of cheese.
n. (misconstruction of compassionate conservatism English)
vb. (context intransitive English) To believe or assert on uncertain grounds.
n. An infectious diarrheal disease caused by the ''Giardia lamblia'' parasite.
vb. (alternative spelling of demythologize English)
n. (alternative spelling of souq English)
Usage examples of "suq".
Mother lifted the firewood off her back and talked to Nhur about what she found in the suq that morning.
City residents were reporting that many of the enemy had not been destroyed, but had vanished into sanctuaries in nearby villages and towns, including the enemy stronghold in Suq Ash Shuyukh, southeast of Nasiriyah.
I put on the simple blue-and-white-striped robe I had bought at The Suq and studied the effect.
The woman went in through one revolving door and came straight out of another, barely bothering to pause in the foyer of the Suq el Meghreb.
She was coming unravelled in front of him, the slow burn of her shock overriding common sense to such an extent that she patted a bulging pocket and tossed her map into a bin, doubling back barely fifty paces before hanging a left into a blind alley so narrow it was more of a gap between the Suq el Meghreb and a neighbouring warehouse.
Below him, between the suq and the spice house was the tiny blind alley down which the ballerina had vanished.
To his right had been the red-brick wall, to his left the yard, little more than a token reminder of a larger one that had existed back before the suq was built.
The many peddlers dealing in dyed wool and salted fish set this suq apart as unique to Magdala.
Even in the centre of Cairo or the suq in Damascus, he had not felt so strongly the presence of the past.