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n. (alternative spelling of hemolysin English)
n. (plural of biodiversity English)
a. That can be evaded.
n. Somebody whose words are being quoted.
a. Consecrated by a vow or promise; consequent on a vow; devoted; promised. n. 1 A person, such as a monk or nun, who lives a religious life according to vows they have made 2 A devotee of a particular religion or cult 3 A devout or zealous worshipper 4 Someone who is devoted to a particular pursuit etc; an enthusiast.
n. (context medicine English) Any of a class of tyrosine phosphorylation inhibitors
n. (context civil engineering English) A structure inserted in the ground and used to maintain an excavation open or to isolate portions of contaminated ground. It can be built of any material from steel to reinforced concrete.
a. 1 Not in a particular order. 2 Mixed, not separated by property.
n. A neuropsychological condition in which, after damage to one hemisphere of the brain, the patient exhibits a deficit in attention to and awareness of one side of space.
n. A specialised hand-held power tool used for cutting narrow grooves in walls, for instance when laying electrical cable.
n. 1 An element, such as a tree, that contributes to evapotranspiration 2 Something that causes the transfer of water from the surface of the earth to the atmosphere by evaporation, sublimation and transpiration
n. A particular retroprogesterone.
n. Any interface through which there is no transfer of heat or entropy
n. (plural of linoleoyl English)
a. clouded with, or as with, mist.
n. (context medical English) A kind of slow bodily waste#Verb or emaciate disease, often accompanying a chronic disease.
n. 1 money paid for the freeing of a hostage. 2 The release of a captive, or of captured property, by payment of a consideration. 3 (context historical legal UK English) A sum paid for the pardon of some great offence and the discharge of the offender; also, a fine paid in lieu of corporal punishment. vb. 1 (context 14th century English) To deliver, especially in context of sin or relevant penalties. 2 To pay a price to set someone free from captivity or punishment. 3 To exact a ransom for, or a payment on.
n. (context baseball slang English) a ball which falls over the infielders' heads for a hit as if it were a bird shot by a hunter
n. (alternative form of printout English) vb. (context computing English) to print (a computer document)
n. The game rock paper scissors.
n. something owed since birth, due to inheritance.
n. Rapid or incoherent talk, with indistinct utterance; gibberish. vb. 1 (label en intransitive) To talk rapidly, indistinctly, or unintelligibly; to utter gibberish or nonsense. 2 (label en transitive) To utter rapidly or indistinctly; to gabble.
n. 1 (context music English) A musical phrase constructed from one or more statements of one modal pattern and ending in a rest. 2 (context Roman Catholicism English) A calendar which prescribes the Mass and office which is to be celebrated each day.
n. Any device which generates or is powered by compressed air
vb. (context intransitive English) To party to rock music.
n. (plural of desanctification English)
vb. (en-past of: scope out)
vb. 1 (context idiomatic English) To get engaged 2 (context idiomatic English) To begin any major commitment
n. (context botany English) The production of very many spores; the condition of being polysporous
a. 1 Towards the wind, or the direction from which the wind is blowing. 2 On the side exposed to the wind. adv. In a direction from which the wind blows, against the wind. n. 1 The direction from which the wind blows. 2 The side receiving the wind's force.
vb. (en-third-person singularkick out)
vb. (present participle of hang out to dry English)
n. 1 (context obsolete English) One who tells the truth; a truthful person. 2 One who predicts the future, using magic, intuition or intelligence; a diviner. 3 A mantis or rearhorse.
Etymology 1 vb. To match unsuitably; to fail to match Etymology 2
n. Something that does not match; something dissimilar, inappropriate or unsuitable.
n. (plural of hypernephroma English)
n. A test that is part of a larger one
n. (context pathology English) The condition such that an organ or other body part has an abnormal position.
n. (plural of minx English)
alt. 1 (&lit hold out English) 2 (context transitive English) To hold (something) out; to extend (something) forward. 3 (context idiomatic often with ''for'' English) To wait, or refuse in hopes of getting something better (from a negotiation, etc.) 4 (context idiomatic English) To survive, endure. n. (alternative spelling of holdout English). vb. 1 (&lit hold out English) 2 (context transitive English) To hold (something) out; to extend (something) forward. 3 (context idiomatic often with ''for'' English) To wait, or refuse in hopes of getting something better (from a negotiation, etc.) 4 (context idiomatic English) To survive, endure.
a. (context idiomatic English) In a situation which is unsuitable, unfamiliar, or unenjoyable.
Etymology 1 n. 1 (abbreviation of: order) 2 (context legal English) (abbreviationordinance) Etymology 2
alt. 1 (context now chiefly UK dialectal English) A point. 2 (context now chiefly UK dialectal English) A point of origin; a beginning. 3 (context now chiefly UK dialectal English) A point of land; a promontory. 4 (context now chiefly UK dialectal English) The point or edge of a weapon. n. 1 (context now chiefly UK dialectal English) A point. 2 (context now chiefly UK dialectal English) A point of origin; a beginning. 3 (context now chiefly UK dialectal English) A point of land; a promontory. 4 (context now chiefly UK dialectal English) The point or edge of a weapon.
vb. (present participle of repaganize English)
n. (plural of wormal English)
Usage examples of "wormals".
They could clearly see the Sagittarian arm, the companion spiral arm to their Aquarian home, arcing off to one side, and there in Leo lay the center of the galaxy, hidden by clouds of stars, with somewhere beating in its midst the great black hole round which the whole thing spins.
Americanism, Leo XIII ruled out any hope of democracy for the church, arguing that only absolute authority could safeguard against heresy.
Certainly Leo had already known that before coming to Ashling, but witnessing the physical evidence of such enormous wealth was more than a little awe-inspiring.
Leo, than a volley of curses, and invectives, and stones, assaulted the odious minister of the emperor and the synod.
Leo Stejneger of the Smithsonian, Washington, for facts gathered on the very spot where Bering perished.
Only, Leo must be kept uninvolved, must seem to have no connection with the Bienvenue operation.
At the same time, I was watching Steve Ravick, Morton Hallstock and Leo Belsher at one side of the room, and Bish Ware at the other.
With the Persians, the first six Genii, created by Ormuzd, presided over the first six signs, Aries, Taurus, Gemini, Cancer, Leo, and Virgo: and the six evil Genii, or Devs, created by Ahriman, over the six others, Libra, Scorpio, Sagittarius, Capricornus, Aquarius, and Pisces.
To begin, Leo, with his golden curls turned a snowy white, his clothes nearly rent from his body, his worn face and his hands a mass of bruises, cuts, and blood-encrusted filth, was a sufficiently alarming spectacle, as he painfully dragged himself along the ground, and I have no doubt that I was little better to look on.
The quest for Leo Drock was under way, as an important step to the discovery of the Mask.
Seventh child of Leo the Drungar, who conducted military and administrative affairs for the Byzantine court in Thessalonica, Constantine held a number of official and diplomatic posts and was raised amid the stark icon-free churches of the iconoclasts who were then in power in Constantinople.
In SCORPIO, ANTARES, of the 1st magnitude, and remarkably red, was one of the four great Stars, FOMALHAUT, in Cetus, ALDEBARAN in Taurus, REGULUS in Leo, and ANTARES, that formerly answered to the Solstitial and Equinoctial points, and were much noticed by astronomers.
Its astronomical and Leonine symbolism does not make any sense unless it was built as an equinoctial marker for the Age of Leo.
Leo returned to Erith with an armload of fruits and nuts, he discovered that despite differences in internal chemistry, they could eat almost identical plant foods.
They had apparently given Erith up for dead and were content to locate Leo by waiting for him to find the hidden scoutship and fly into the view of their spy satellites.