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n. (cassette drive English)
a. 1 (context informal English) Associated with the outdoors, or suited to outdoor life. 2 (context informal English) Fond of the outdoors.
n. (context mineralogy English) A hexagonal mineral containing boron, calcium, hydrogen, magnesium, and oxygen.
vb. (en-third-person singular of: reperforate)
prep. (alternative form of umbe English)
n. (plural of freeway English)
n. A woman whose occupation it is to sell things.
n. (plural of fullerene English)
1 That has been given a higher rating 2 upgraded v
(en-past of: uprate)
n. 1 A Welsh team sport related to hockey, hurling, shinty, and bandy. 2 The curve-ended stick used in this game.
n. (plural of puerperal fever English)
vb. (present participle of stipulate English)
n. One who places adornments, who adorns.
n. (plural of phantasmagory English)
n. (plural of detector English)
a. Relating to nanotoxicology.
n. (dope fiend English)
vb. (context obsolete English) To confine; to contract; to stringe.
n. (context obsolete English) A hall for public meetings; a hall of judgment.
Etymology 1 a. Worn out; hackneyed; used so many times that it is no longer interesting or effective (often in reference to a word or phrase). Etymology 2
n. 1 A denomination of coinage in ancient Greece equivalent to one third of a stater. 2 (taxlink Trite genus noshow=1), a genus of spiders, found in Australia, New Zealand and Oceania, of the family Salticidae.
n. (plural of dendrogram English)
vb. (cx informal English) To swear with the pinky fingers entwined.
a. resembling incest
n. (plural of titanotherium English)
n. (plural of nasheed English)
vb. (context idiomatic US automotive English) To start abruptly from a standing stop, accelerating rapidly, especially so as to produce skid marks.
vb. (en-third-person singulardish out)
n. (jail lock English)
vb. (en-pastdish out)
n. (plural of denominator English)
a. Making complete.
n. 1 The shell of a tortoise, sometimes inaccurately the shell of a turtle, or that material. 2 (alternative form of tortoiseshell English)
n. A family of technologies that provides digital data transmission over the wires of a local telephone network. Often, this notion is used for the Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line (ADSL), the most commonly installed technical variety of DSL.
n. (plural of sulphacid English)
vb. 1 (context rock climbing English) To work one's way vertically up a chimney or cleft using a rocking movement. 2 To turn up to a place or function unexpectedly, or without notice or prior warning.
a. (alternative spelling of poufy English)
n. (plural of omul English)
vb. (en-third-person singularhang out to dry)
a. (context accounting computing business English) Of or pertaining to any situation where the last to arrive is the first to go, or a data structure where the most recently added item is the first to be retrieved.
a. 1 (&lit out of gas English): lacking fuel. 2 (context idiomatic English) Tired; lacking energy or motivation.
n. 1 a short news story printed alongside a larger one 2 (context computing English) information placed at the side of a webpage 3 (context US legal English) a short conference, between a judge and the attorneys of a case, held outside the jury's hearing; the place where this happens
n. (plural of chopine English)
n. (context military English) A rapid retreat, a rout. vb. 1 (context idiomatic intransitive English) To leave (a place) hastily (originally military). 2 (context idiomatic intransitive English) to abandon someone without warning. 3 (context idiomatic intransitive English) miss school, play truant, play hooky. 4 (context idiomatic transitive of one's eyes English) To cause to bulge. 5 (context idiomatic computing English) To crash or glitch.
n. (misspelling of idea English)
n. A stimulant drug of the xanthine class.
n. (context obsolete English) A fripper; one who deals in frippery or old clothes.
vb. 1 to search, to look for 2 to track down, to find by searching
n. An antiseptic/disinfectant compound.
n. (context travel English) A future-dated line of text put in to an airline reservation system or GDS to delay the booking being moved to archives.
Etymology 1 vb. (present participle of gloom English) Etymology 2
n. twilight of morning or evening; the gloaming
vb. (present participle of rub out English)
vb. (present participle of cash out English)
n. (plural of quixotry English)
n. 1 (context baseball English) An instance of fouling out. 2 (context basketball English) An instance of fouling out. vb. 1 (context baseball English) To become out by hitting a foul ball which is caught. 2 (context basketball English) To be disqualified from further play for having committed too many fouls.
n. A prehistoric man resembling an ape.
n. 1 the quality of being portable 2 (context computing English) the ability of a program (or software system) to execute properly on multiple hardware platforms 3 the ability of an employee to move between different social security schemes without losing their contributions 4 the ability of a telephone subscriber to keep his/her number when switching to a different network
n. (context onomatopoeia English) The sound of a locomotive whistle
a. Completely sold; no more (of a particular item) in stock
vb. (context transitive idiomatic English) to send (children or pets) to stay with other people (or to boarding school, in the case of children)
n. (context British informal English) A mobile phone.
alt. 1 an electric circuit in which voltage and current do not vary with time 2 an electric current in which the electrons flow in one direction, but may vary with time n. 1 an electric circuit in which voltage and current do not vary with time 2 an electric current in which the electrons flow in one direction, but may vary with time
vb. (present participle of neglect English)
n. (plural of geezer English)
n. (plural of chron English)
vb. (context transitive English) To bring under yoke; make subject.
n. polydimethylsiloxane
n. (plural of archmagician English)
n. 1 (context uncountable English) The condition of being extensive 2 (context countable English) The extent to which something is extensive
n. (plural of halacha English)
a. (alternative form of highfalutin English)
n. (plural of waitlist English)
n. (context Scotland English) A potato scone; made from flour and cooked potatoes, but no onions.
n. A pause. vb. (present participle of pause English)
n. (plural of obscenity English)
a. sad or pessimistic n. (context music English) The accented beat at the beginning of a bar (indicated by a conductor with a downward stroke)
adv. (context idiomatic English) after an active or heated period. alt. (context idiomatic English) after an active or heated period.
n. a device that allows two-way communication via radio
vb. 1 (context obsolete English) To cut; to separate and remove. 2 (context obsolete English) To resolve or break up, as by medicines.
n. proanthocyanidin
n. (taxlink Lepidochelys olivacea species), a species of (l en sea turtle)
n. 1 (context rhetoric English) A change from one subject to another. 2 (context pathology English) Any change in the course of a disease; metabola.
n. (plural of dweebling English)
n. That to which something is attributed; a target of attribution.
adv. In terms of traffic.
n. (plural of backstock English)
a. (context rare English) Suffering from or pertaining to hypophalangia; lacking one or more digital phalanges.
n. (context rare English) A specifically female glossator.
vb. (context obsolete English) To confederate.
n. (context rare English) (plural of sadomasochism English)
n. 1 A Central American plant, of the genus ''Agave'', cultivated for its sword-shaped leaves that yield fibers used for rope. 2 The fibre of the plant. 3 (context rare English) A sisal mat.
vb. (en-third-person singular of: coconspire)
n. 1 (context countable English) A paste usually formed of flour, sugar, water, eggs, and other ingredients which, when baked, hardens to form a cookie or a number of cookies. 2 (context uncountable English) A flavor designed to emulate the taste of the paste.
vb. (context archaic English) (en-archaic second-person singular of: melt)
n. (context economics English) The buying and selling of products from an economical view, dealing with the making, the distribution, and the usage of the product.
n. an early television camera having a mosaic of photoactive cells
n. (singular of cold cuts English)
n. A man who holds open the door at the entrance to a building, summons taxicabs, and provides an element of security; in apartment buildings, he also accepts deliveries and may perform certain concierge type services.
n. (context computing English) a proxy server that may be accessed by any Internet user
alt. small-scale activism; activism consisting of small actions. n. small-scale activism; activism consisting of small actions.
n. (plural of catholicon English)
n. (alt form mill dam English)
n. (context meteorology English) An instrument that measures the humidity of the air or other gases, especially the relative humidity.
adv. in an atheistic manner
n. (plural of trichina English)
n. (plural of methylbromide English)
vb. (context idiomatic colloquial vulgar English) To masturbate (male).
Usage examples of "underloads".
Then all the satisfaction she had derived from what she had heard Madame Bourdieu say departed, and she went off furious and ashamed, as if soiled and threatened by all the vague abominations which she had for some time felt around her, without knowing, however, whence came the little chill which made her shudder as with dread.
At her house I made the acquaintance of several gamblers, and of three or four frauleins who, without any dread of the Commissaries of Chastity, were devoted to the worship of Venus, and were so kindly disposed that they were not afraid of lowering their nobility by accepting some reward for their kindness--a circumstance which proved to me that the Commissaries were in the habit of troubling only the girls who did not frequent good houses.
I was struck by the dread in her voice, which seemed to be more fear of Aden himself than a reluctance to share the bad news.
I recollect his warmth of heart and high sense, and your beauty, gentleness, charms of conversation, and purely disinterested love for one whose great worldly advantages might so easily bias or adulterate affection, I own that I have no dread for your future fate, no feeling that can at all darken the brightness of anticipation.
None of these countries had prepared for aeronautic warfare on the magnificent scale of the Germans, but each guarded secrets, each in a measure was making ready, and a common dread of German vigour and that aggressive spirit Prince Karl Albert embodied, had long been drawing these powers together in secret anticipation of some such attack.
With that said, he told Alec of his latest nightmare, and of the unreasoning dread that had come over him before.
Cold with dread, Alec found the driver and helped him bundle Seregil, well wrapped in cloaks and blankets, into the carriage.
Perhaps it was with some unconscious dread of this tedium that he made a sudden suggestion to Sir Alured in reference to Dresden.
She did not have to remind herself that an amniotic fluid embolus was the most dreaded complication in obstetrics.
Front, three abreast, the man in the middle dozing, and all dreading the first sight of the Hanging Virgin of Albert because beyond her steeple lay the terrible valley of the Ancre and the hills above the Somme.
Angry debate in the Senate and upon the forum was now hushed, and the supreme question that took hold of national life was to find enduring arbitrament in the dread tribunal of war.
Those who have reported their opinions to us, from the earliest Jesuit missionaries to the latest investigators of their mental characteristics, concur in ascribing to them a deep trust in a life to come, a cheerful view of its conditions, and a remarkable freedom from the dread of dying.
She was ashamed to betray her dread, and to say where she now planned to go.
If you decide to cross that dread threshold, may Ath Creator stand at your shoulder with every bright power of guidance.
He dreaded being sent back to the Tower even more than he dreaded a beating for stealing illegal passage on the Windship, but if he were allowed to remain in the city, would he not merely end up as a drudge, toiling in sunless chambers for the rest of his life, polishing aumbries, bleeding, broken?