Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Biddable \Bid"da*ble\, a. Obedient; docile. [Scot.]
knock-knees \knock-knees\ n. 1. knock-knee.
Syn: knock-knee, genu valgum.
Sustenance \Sus"te*nance\, n. [OF. sustenance, sostenance, soustenance: cf. L. sustenentia endurance. See Sustain.]
The act of sustaining; support; maintenance; subsistence; as, the sustenance of the body; the sustenance of life.
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That which supports life; food; victuals; provisions; means of living; as, the city has ample sustenance. ``A man of little sustenance.''
--Chaucer.For lying is thy sustenance, thy food.
--Milton.
Evening \E"ven*ing\, n. [AS. [=ae]fnung. See even, n., and cf. Eve.]
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The latter part and close of the day, and the beginning of darkness or night; properly, the decline of the day, or of the sun.
In the ascending scale Of heaven, the stars that usher evening rose.
--Milton.Note: Sometimes, especially in the Southern parts of the United States, the afternoon is called evening.
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The latter portion, as of life; the declining period, as of strength or glory.
Note: Sometimes used adjectively; as, evening gun. ``Evening Prayer.''
--Shak.Evening flower (Bot.), a genus of iridaceous plants ( Hesperantha) from the Cape of Good Hope, with sword-shaped leaves, and sweet-scented flowers which expand in the evening.
Evening grosbeak (Zo["o]l.), an American singing bird ( Coccothraustes vespertina) having a very large bill. Its color is olivaceous, with the crown, wings, and tail black, and the under tail coverts yellow. So called because it sings in the evening.
Evening primrose. See under Primrose.
The evening star, the bright star of early evening in the western sky, soon passing below the horizon; specifically, the planet Venus; -- called also Vesper and Hesperus. During portions of the year, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn are also evening stars. See Morning Star.
Kneelingly \Kneel"ing*ly\, adv. In a kneeling position.
Two-edged \Two"-edged`\, a. Having two edges, or edges on both sides; as, a two-edged sword.
Wiktionary
n. (plural of lensboard English)
n. (plural of hoard English) vb. (en-third-person singular of: hoard)
vb. (en-third-person singular of: manage)
a. Resembling a garage; thus often rough and unfinished
a. 1 docile, amenable or compliant. 2 (context bridge English) Suitable for bidding.
n. (knock-knee English)
n. Something that provides support or nourishment.
vb. 1 (context idiomatic English) To react viciously (towards someone/something). 2 (context obsolete English) To perform by good luck.
n. (plural of scaritoxin English)
n. (plural of pervasion English)
n. A boring speech or presentation that is perceived being very lengthy.
adv. In a kneeling position.
n. (context computing English) A set of images, distributed as files with other software, that may be copy and paste into documents or other files.
n. North Indian hand drum.
n. (dated form of lapis lazuli English)
adv. In a metallurgical way.
alt. 1 (context accounting English) A method of inventory accounting that values items withdrawn from inventory at the cost of the oldest item assumed to remain in inventory. 2 (context operations English) A policy of serving first what has arrived for service first. n. 1 (context accounting English) A method of inventory accounting that values items withdrawn from inventory at the cost of the oldest item assumed to remain in inventory. 2 (context operations English) A policy of serving first what has arrived for service first.
n. (plural of protomerite English)
n. 2,4,6-trinitroaniline, an explosive compound.
a. 1 (&lit out of gas English): lacking fuel. 2 (context idiomatic English) Tired; lacking energy or motivation.
n. (plural of adessive case English)
a. 1 (context of an edged weapon etc English) having two cutting edges 2 (context by extension English) having two, often contrasting, meanings or interpretations
Usage examples of "two-edged".
Irony is a difficult technique whose point is frequently missed, and the ironist may find he is holding a two-edged sword and is himself badly gashed.
But their weapons were a two-edged sword, for any direct hit on the shieldless fighters destroyed them with impressive pyrotechnically-enhanced explosions.
He grinned as he followed the new lords of Circassia up the rough ladder, conscious of the rifle and the sharp two-edged khinjal strapped to his thigh.
He had in His right hand seven stars, and out of His mouth went a sharp two-edged sword, and His countenance was as the sun shineth in His strength.
Their arms were anciently the Glaymore, or great two-handed sword, and afterwards the two-edged sword and target, or buckler, which was sustained on the left arm.
The similarity of human and Delkasu biochemistries was a two-edged sword: if we could eat it, it could eat us.
In the same belt was stuck one of those long, broad, sharp-pointed, and two-edged knives, with a buck's-horn handle, which were fabricated in the neighbourhood, and bore even at this early period the name of a Sheffield whittle.
Radu had been partly right: there were other ways to enthrall a man - but some swords are two-edged.
A ruby light that outdazzled the battle flares, the two-edged ecstasy of feeding.
I stopped in front of a magnificent Viking figure who held a two-edged sword in his right hand and a buckled shield in his left.
A two-edged sword of the finest Swedish steel, its hilt cut from the twisted horn of some fabulous beast of the northern seas that Brand called a narwhal.
What you've got there is a two-edged sword, not a one-edged billhook.
Even he might be something other than what he believed, his magic the two-edged sword about which his uncle Walker had always warned him.
Two clusters of ringed fingers gripped the hilt of an immense two-edged sword.
It comes to me that justice is a two-edged sword and cuts both ways.