FrancescoPeriti/Dbnary-en · Datasets at Hugging Face

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Varlet	(Archaic) A rogue or scoundrel.	My lady to be called a nasty Scotch wh–re by such a varlet!—To be sure I wish I had knocked his brains out with the punchbowl	en
Amphi	Surrounding, around, encircling.	Amphiphyte	en
Bosom	A breast, one of a woman's breasts.	I dont [sic] know that her bosoms were fuller than usual	en
Tweenlight	(Rare, or, dialectal) The period between dusk and nightfall; twilight.	It was not yet dusk,but the 'tween-light was blurring the outline of all things, when they came at last, two or maybe three miles down river, to the ford of a stream brawling down from the high chalk, and saw through the smoke-soft screen of willows and alders the gleam of a firelit doorway reflected in the glossy darkness of a mill leat	en
Semifactorial	(Mathematics, combinatorics, rare).	(In the formulas above we use the Euler beta function, a Jacobi polynomial evaluated at three, and also the familiar double factorial (also known as the semifactorial) notation defined by n!! = \begin{cases}; \displaystyle 1 \times 3 \times 5 \times \dots \times n & \text{if } n \text{ is odd}, \\[5pt]; \displaystyle 2 \times 4 \times 6 \times \dots \times n & \text{if } n \text{ is even}.; \end{cases}By convention, 0!! = (-1)!! = 1	en
Osteoprotective	(Physiology) That protects bone from physical damage.	Potential differences in the OC gene expression between postmenopausal women treated and not treated with HRT would allow determining if osteoprotective effect of estrogen is exerted, inter alia, by changes in metabolism of OC	en
Bigness	(Now, rare) Size. [from 15th c.	He that vvould diſcern the rudimentall ſtroak of a plant, may behold it in the Originall of Duckvveed, at the bigneſſe of a pins point, from convenient vvater in glaſſes, vvherein a vvatchfull eye may alſo diſcover the puncticular Originals of Perivvincles and Gnats	en
Hazel dormouse	A small nocturnal dormouse, Muscardinus avellanarius, with golden-brown fur and large black eyes.	A volunteer checks a rare hazel dormouse as 20 breeding pairs were released into an undisclosed woodland location near Royal Leamington Spa in Warwickshire, UK	en
Firlot	(Scotland) A measure of capacity, once used for corn etc, equal to four pecks.	T]he valuation of lands, tenor of leaſes, the rents, the entails, rent charges, life rents, and payments for or out of land revenue, are all reckoned in Scotland by the chalder, boll, firlot, and lippy, and cannot be altered; [...	en
Button day	(Australia) A day on which money is raised for a group or cause by selling buttons for people to wear.	In late November 1917, the editor of the Melbourne Argus was urged to spread the word about a possible 'button day' specifically aimed at prisoner-of-war relief: 'As an ardent supporter of the Button Fund collections I should like to urge the organisers . . . to arrange for a Prisoners' Day and that without delay . . . Can we not have a button day 'for all prisoners and captives'	en
Yammer	The act or noise of yammering.	The house is just as he had imagined it would be: rubbishy furniture, a clutter of ornaments (porcelain shepherdesses, cowbells, an ostrich-feather flywhisk), the yammer of the radio, the cheeping of birds in cages, cats everywhere underfoot	en
Miscue	A miss of the object one intended to hit.	Some comical defending involving two terrible clearances saw Kingson called on to block Welbeck's strike and then Evatt made amends for his shocking miscue by heading Bent's powerful follow-up over the bar	en
Critical race theory	A movement in academia involving the application of critical theory to issues surrounding the interaction between racial dynamics and social and legal power.	The Critical Race Theory (CRT) movement is a collection of activists and scholars interested in studying and transforming the relationship among race, racism and power	en
Psychosemantics	The study of how meaning is inferred.	Psychosemantics has a long history in psychology and includes concepts and techniques developed by the American psychologist Osgood (Osgood, 1971; Osgood, Suci, & Tannenbaum, 1957( and Kelly (1955). Russian psychosemantics is based on the methodological and theoretical foundations introduced by Lev Vygotsky, Alexei Leontiev, and Alexander Luria	en
Axe-murder	To murder (someone) with an axe.	So […] the macabre episode of the two Americans axe-murdered […] became another chapter in the bloody annals of the Korean conflict	en
o	(Unstressed) usually before vowels.	Gimme two o’ those ones	en
Back	The side of a blade opposite the side used for cutting.	Tap it with the back of your knife	en
Expatiate	To write or speak at length; to be copious in argument or discussion.	To the pure mind of Isabella thought of no other had arisen; and it was far better that the generous romance of her young heart should expatiate on the rival in heaven, than for a moment dread a rival on earth, and therefore become subject to jealousy..	en
Interimperialist	Between imperialists.	After the Second International collapsed following its surrender to the inter-imperialist chauvinism of World War I, German revolutionary elements joined the Communist Party	en
Roll	(Transitive) To beat up; to assault.	They rolled him for his money, and that would have been that, but the guy tried to fight back	en
Dead end	(Mining) The inner end of a drift or tunnel.	The ventilation of dead ends — always a serious problem — has in some mines been an absolute necessity. At the Oriental Consols Gold Mine a crosscut at a depth of 2,600 ft. has been continued to over 1,400 ft. from the shaft, and at the No. 2 South Great Eastern Gold Mine crosscutting and driving has been carried on at depths of 1,750 ft. and 2,000 ft. In order to ventilate these dead ends blowers have been used to force air into the faces through lines of pipes	en
Polypheme	(Rare) Polyphemus.	Slowly, amidst the distorted horrors of that indescribable scene, she began to churn the lethal waters; whilst on the masonry of that charnel shore that was not of earth the titan Thing from the stars slavered and gibbered like Polypheme cursing the fleeing ship of Odysseus	en
Chime	A small bell or other ringing or tone-making device as a component of some other device.	The professor had stuffed a wad of gum into the chime of his doorbell so that he wouldn't be bothered	en
Disposing	Acting to predispose or incline.	Autumn was considered the season most disposing to melancholy	en
Quattuordecuple	(Rare) Fourteenfold.	He chunked a wedge 20 yards short of the green, advanced his next pitch just five yards, then half-shanked his 14th shot to the back-right of the putting surface — above the hole, which is not where you want to be on the sloping green. He cautiously tapped that putt but not cautiously enough; it nearly rolled off the green, leaving himself 15 feet back up the hill. A tidy two-putt from there and Birrell had made a 17. Yep, a quattuordecuple-bogey	en
Languor	(Uncountable) Dullness, sluggishness; lack of vigour; stagnation.	I rushed towards her, and embraced her with ardour; but the deathly languor and coldness of the limbs told me, that what I now held in my arms had ceased to be the Elizabeth whom I had loved and cherished	en
Inoffensive	Not offensive.	On January 7, 1964, a group of American students at Balboa High School in the Panama Canal Zone set into motion events that soon threatened our relations with Panama and endangered operation of the Panama Canal. It was, on the surface, an inoffensive act: The students raised the American flag in front of the school	en
Bear away the bell	(Idiom, obsolete) To be superior in something.	And as these western men do bear away the bell for might and sleight in wrestling , so the scholars here have always acquitted themselves with credit in palæstrâ literariâ	en
Countercorruption	Opposing or countering corruption.	It quoted Transparency International, the global countercorruption organization, as estimating his wealth at $15 billion to $35 billion	en
Underbum	(UK, slang) The lower part of the buttocks, as revealed by certain clothing such as skimpy shorts.	Not done with just showing underbum, the front of the star's shorts featured distressed holes which the top her thighs showed through	en
Main	(Video gaming) The primary character that one plays in a video game in which one can play more than one character.	My WoW main has reached level cap and I’m on my way getting my first alt there as well	en
Strange	Unfamiliar, not yet part of one's experience.	She's probably sitting there hoping a couple of strange detectives will drop in	en
Superinduce	To bring in or introduce as an addition; to produce, cause, bring on.	I once heard a worthy woman who wished to be elegant, say of her husband, that he was "sufferin' very bad with bronchriches which were superinduced by excessive exposure." The truth and the English of which was that the good man had a cough brought on by getting very wet and cold	en
Lycan	A werewolf.	He staggered for a moment, then gritted his teeth, turning to face the Woodland lycan, his arms raised to block the next punch, and the next. The Woodland pack gathered close, shouting encouragement to their alpha prime	en
Spangle	Any of a number of swallowtail butterflies (genus Papilio); specifically Papilio protenor.	Many species like Yellow-crested Spangle Papilio elephenor, Nevill's Windmill Atrophaneura nevilli were recorded from the area during earlier surveys, but we did not record these species till date	en
Merwolf	(Fantasy) A mermaid wolf; a sea wolf.	The Humdrum had turned the merwolves against the school, and they were crawling around, dragging their fins, getting everything wet and gnashing their teeth at little kids, and then Penelope Bunce, the hero of our story, cast a spell that made the clouds rain silver—	en
Extenuate	(To degrade (someone); to detract from (someone's qualities, reputation, etc.); to depreciate, to disparage.	I]t hath beene ordinarie vvith politique men to extenuate and diſable learned men by the names of Pedantes: […	en
Nerven	(Transitive, rare) To innerve.	…] if I give them such serving as I can as to money it is impossible for me to raise it as this alarm has stopt[sic] all my channels and if I can't get matters on such a footing as to raise my credit again which is entirely knocked down, I must and am nervened to give up	en
Catchweight	(Horse racing) Without any weight restrictions; without being handicapped.	To ride catchweight	en
Hot-milk cake	.	THe[sic] first recipe is one for a hot-milk cake similar to one that my Aunt Belle used to make for us kids after school	en
Polemical	Being an attempt to evaluate the arguments comprehensively.	Bachelard has given a clear analysis of the "Atlas complex", a polemical complex and schema of verticalising effort or elevation, accompanied by a feeling of monarchical contemplation which diminishes the world so as better to glorify the gigantic, and the ambition inherent in ascensional reveries	en
O'clock	(With a numeral, one to twelve) In conjunction with a numeral, indicates the direction, relative to the speaker or a vehicle, especially an aircraft, corresponding to the direction the hour hand is pointing at the time corresponding to the numeral, with twelve representing directly ahead on a horizontal plane, or directly up on a vertical plane, and three being to the right on either.	Three o'clock and nine o'clock would be at the outer right and outer left sides of the tree, respectively, and so on. The clock technique is a very helpful way for one bird watcher to direct others to a hard-to-spot perched bird	en
Greenie	(US, slang) A beginner, a novice; a greenhorn.	…] “When the teacher says ‘Good Morning,’ you say, ‘Fuck You.’ That′s what you say in America.” Sometimes they varied this with “son of a bitch.” Sure enough the greenie parroted these instructions to the merriment of the classroom	en
Vibey	(Informal) Having a vibe; atmospheric and trendy.	Couples were dancing to the latest vibey music	en
Amelodically	In an amelodic manner.	Then, as the theatergoers arrived, he began to play amelodically, as if tuning his instrument	en
Nub	(Theatre) A passage of Shakespearean blank verse.	A nub is a passage of blank verse that Shakespearean actors have sometimes relied upon when they forget their lines. It doesn't have to make any sense, but it must sound plausible. To alert the other actors on stage that the speaker is in difficulty, the word nub is used in the first line	en
Jollily	In a jolly manner.	Every servant in the family, from high to low, wished Tom success, and I can fancy, an’ please your honour, I see him this moment with his white dimity waistcoat and breeches, and hat a little o’one side, passing jollily along the street, swinging his stick, with a smile and a cheerful word for every body he met	en
Cunt-lapper	Alternative form of cuntlapper.	…] telling me I was a wonderful cunt lapper […	en
Jetter	One who drives or rides in a jet-propelled vehicle.	The executive jetter's time-advantage over scheduled flights has, indeed, increased	en
Sure-handed	Confident and skillful; practiced; expert.	While Heaphy was in the role of hawk-eyed, sure-handed, specimen-procuring guide, Hochstetter, Haast and their colleagues were delighted by him and quick to sing his praises	en
Anybodies	(Nonstandard).	And it's only fathers who love anybodies; Nurse told me they always did	en
Enhearse	(Transitive) To place into, or as if into, a hearse or coffin.	Dutifully we queueBy twosomes for each surrey cloaked in blackTo pull up and enhearse us	en
Polki	(India) Of diamonds: unfaceted.	We're doing a lot of polki or uncut diamond jewellery sets in real gold. A lot of brides are opting for polki jewellery because it looks dressier and works better for a wedding	en
Stalemate	(Transitive, figuratively) To bring about a stalemate, in which no advance in an argument is achieved.	But with the war also still largely stalemated, other theatres of conflict have become more important. In Russia’s case, that includes the secret domain	en
Sheeplike	Resembling a sheep: docile or uncomplaining, or willing to follow a leader blindly.	Occasionally I succumb to the vibrations in the atmosphere and follow, sheeplike, the movements of the crowd	en
Bangla	(Nonstandard) Bengali (ethnicity).	On Friday, Bengalis will welcome 1429 as per Bangla calendar	en
Rise and shine	(Idiomatic, imperative) Used to wish someone happiness upon waking up.	Good morning, little Martin; rise and shine	en
Beclap	To clap for; to applaud.	In the course of his table-talk, during the French war, the ex-chancellor once remarked that, though the Prussian people huzza'd and beclapped their great Frederick when alive, […	en
Fundamental theorem	(Chiefly, mathematics) A theorem (or, in non-mathematical fields, a commonly accepted hypothesis) considered to be of central importance to a specified field.	In this and the next chapter I return to the fundamental theorems of welfare economics. In this chapter I argue that the first fundamental theorem of welfare economics—asserting the efficiency of competitive economics—is fundamentally flawed	en
Monstrosity	An organism showing abnormal development or deformity.	Geoffroy St. Hilaire's experiments show that unnatural treatment of the embryo causes monstrosities; and monstrosities cannot be separated by any clear line of distinction from mere variations	en
Gamified	Turned into a game.	Unlike older conservatives, Yiannopoulos understood what was bubbling up on platforms such as Reddit and 4chan: a new gamified form of hard-right discourse based not on ideas but on memes, harassment and “saying the unsayable” […]	en
Tonish	(Now, rare) Conforming to the "ton"; modish, stylish.	…] those who […] have an inclination to give their sons, their daughters, and their servants, a tonish finish to their educations, may sin in haste and repent at leisure by passing a season at Bath	en
Pangram	A sentence that contains every letter of the alphabet.	Like the search for the perfect palindrome, the pursuit of the perfect pangram has obsessed many people	en
President-elect	(Sum of parts) A person who has been elected to a presidency but has not yet been inducted into office. [from 18th c.	The Armed Forces Revolutionary Council (later to be referred as AFRC) government handed over the reins of government to the president elect of the Third Republic Dr. Hilla Limann, thus ending seven and a half years of military rule	en
Aftersee	(Transitive, uncommon, obsolete) To see or witness after the fact or event; see in hindsight or retrospectively.	...] of Durham if he will come, or send his brother to enter as one authorized for such a matter, and so to carry it away without delay; and cannot Mr. Cox see, or foresee, or aftersee what cause or colour might work such alteration	en
Bed	(Intransitive) To go to bed; to put oneself to sleep.	I usually listen to music before I bed	en
Latibulize	(Rare) To retire into a den, or hole, and lie dormant in winter.	When kept in gardens in Italy and Germany, it is observed to latibulize in October, and to reappear in April	en
Camel	Of a light brown color like that of a camel.	…] try to select accessories that are in the same color family as your coat," says millinery designer Patricia Underwood. To pick up the weave of a brown tweed jacket, for instance, choose a camel hat and black gloves	en
Transientness	The state of being transient.	Thus, scientific journalism has devised a way to make information from meetings more readily available: the publication of abstracts and proceedings that are not peer-reviewed, an intermediate step between the transientness of newspaper reports and the permanence of the peer-reviewed paper	en
Beread	(Transitive, archaic) To advise; inform; counsel; plan; (reflexive) to advise or bethink oneself; deliberate.	And when the time hung with a heaviness I beread me of them	en
Lithium titanate oxide battery	A modified lithium ion battery that uses lithium titanate nanocrystals, instead of carbon, on the surface of its anodes.	Stadler therefore proposed a solution based on a Class 88 that involved an updated diesel alternator set plus Lithium Titanate Oxide (LTO) batteries However, the manufacturer does not regard the subsequent Class 93 as an updated and upgraded Class 88 - it is much more	en
Poristic	Of or relating to a porism; of the nature of a porism.	Poristic thoery	en
Smotheriness	The quality or state of being smothery.	In order to escape the smotheriness of a closely built up city and because it was cheaper, I lived pretty well out to the limits of Clamport […	en
Beggar the question	To beg the question.	Unfortunately, this definition beggars the question because we are left not knowing what it is that allows access to the sick role, but prefer not to seek it	en
Greengrocer's apostrophe	An incorrectly used apostrophe, especially one mistakenly used to form the plural of a noun, for example to write the plural of banana as banana's instead of bananas.	When applied in English it produces greengrocer's apostrophes	en
Horsepower	(Uncountable) Power derived from the motion of a horse.	The wheel was to have been turned by horsepower, but it was adapted to be driven by a mill-wheel on the river Derwent […	en
Misstation	To station improperly.	I can well perceive in the imperfection of our reasoning powers, a sufficient cause, if not adequate excuse, for differences of opinion on many important matters; but if there be an individual who in contemplating the arrangements of nature, can shut out from his view all idea of a supreme, intelligent, and benevolent cause, I would say that he has been misstationed on this fair world, so deeply impressed with the most marked characters wisdom, beneficence, and love	en
Got to	(Informal).	Sorry, but I got to go	en
Arrow in the quiver	(Idiomatic, ) One of several available options or courses of action.	And sooner or later, the European indictment will become a standard arrow in the quiver of aggrieved parties across the globe, from Afghanistan to Zimbabwe	en
Fantasticize	Synonym of fantasize.	He doesn't have any false pretensions, he's straightforward, no fantasticizing, but full of mood	en
Frithy	Woody; relating to brushwood, undergrowth, or a partial clearing in a forest.	In north India, small round, oblong or long, temperate varieties of radish may also be grown, but these should be harvested within 25-30 days, otherwise they become frithy very soon	en
Chill	(Transitive) To lower the temperature of something; to cool.	Chill before serving	en
Giveaway	An event at which things are given away for free.	His counterpart Tom Wiles also speaks directly for the honored persons in giveaways; in Shannon's outgoing princess giveaway, he addresses a woman named Rose as Shannon gives her a dance shawl: "Shannon says/ now you can kick up your heels" (Wiles 1999)	en
Vivien	A en given name, an exclusively feminine spelling variant of Vivian.	This habit you have contracted of being a little boy," his mamma said to him, "is most inconvenient. Your name was to be Vivien. Vivien is early English, and picturesque and full of color; Vivian, which is a boy's name, I don't think so much of. - -	en
Collapsism	The belief that a system or entity will collapse.	Yet even in Grossman's time, at least one radical voice challenged his collapsism. Council Communist Anton Pannekoek […] charged Grossman with citing Marx's writings on capitalism's periodic crises to suggest the latter believed in the notion of a collapse from its limits	en
Lat	(UK, _, slang, usually, in the plural) A latrine: a rudimentary or military facility for urination and defecation.	Other synonyms [sc. for lavatories] are rears, lats... and dubs	en
Retrenchment	(Especially, politics) The adoption of a defensive and hostile posture; refusal to compromise, radicalization.	Retrenchment—on the left and the right—led to exclusivist, mutually recriminating positions on the film that made reasoned debate almost impossible, as opponents drowned each other out with competing narratives of “victimization” and “pariah” status	en
Palaeoburrow	Alternative form of paleoburrow.	Several tunnels, discovered over the past several decades, are interpreted as palaeoburrows built by fossil mammals, based on morphological patterns, transgressive boundaries in relation to the sedimentary units, and the presence of tracks on the walls and roofs	en
Pithecanthropoid	Pertaining to or characteristic of the pithecanthropoids.	God! those carrion black pits of sawed, picked bones and opened skulls! Those nightmare chasms choked with the pithecanthropoid, Celtic, Roman, and English bones of countless unhallowed centuries	en
Unglazed	Having no glaze (no glazed coating).	The unglazed donuts can be frozen for up to a month	en
Acute	Intense; sensitive; sharp.	Then, at three, for Neville's sake and for the sake of her marriage as undernourished and spectral as it had been rendered by absence, its substance being all in the future, and an honest hope of hearing some news or of extending solace to other women, not least those with children, who seemed each to have an acuter sense of the man she was missing than Alice had of Neville, she attended the Friday meeting for wives and mothers of prisoners of war at the School of the Arts	en
Paper	A newspaper or anything used as such (such as a newsletter or listing magazine).	I don't want to spoil any comparison you are going to make," said Jim, "but I was at Winchester and New College." ¶ "That will do," said Mackenzie. "I was dragged up at the workhouse school till I was twelve. Then I ran away and sold papers in the streets, and anything else that I could pick up a few coppers by—except steal. […].	en
Vara	(Historical) A traditional Portuguese unit of length, equivalent to about 1.1 m.	(Coordinate terms: (1⁄40 vara) polegada, (1⁄5 vara) palmo, (3⁄10 vara) Portuguese foot, (3⁄5 vara) covado, (English equivalents to the vara) yard, rod, ell, (1+1⁄2 varas) passo, (1+4⁄5 varas) toesa, (2 varas) braça	en
Intraaortic	Within the aorta.	Table 1 The patient characteristics before extracorporeal membrane oxygenation Continuous variables are reported as median (interquartile range) CPR cardiopulmonary resuscitation, ED emergency department, E-CPR extracorporeal cardiopulmonary resuscitation, ECMO extracorporeal membrane oxygenation, BUN blood urea nitrogen, AST aspartate transaminase, ALT alanine transaminase, IABP intraaortic balloon pump, SOFA Sequential Organ Failure Assessment, SAPS II Simplified Acute Physiology Score II *Hypothermia, malignant arrhythmia, dilated cardiomyopathy, ischemic cardiomyopathy, commotio cordis, abdominal aortic aneurysm rupture † Door to ECMO time: the time from arrival at the ED to ECMO implantation ‡ Hypoxic brain damage, hemothorax, pulmonary hemorrhage, chest wall compartment syndrome, chylothorax The characteristics of survivors and non-survivors during extracorporeal membrane oxygenation support a Fisher’s exact test	en
Slinky	Furtive, stealthy or catlike.	“But of all the awful, second-rate girls I ever met, she’s the worst! […] She’s a sly, creepy, slinky, made-up, insincere vampire! She’s common! She’s awful! She’s a cat!”	en
Mihaffa	(Middle East, Central Asia, &, _, India, chiefly, _) Various forms of covered animal-borne litters, chiefly for female passengers.	(..ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad Abuʾl-Ḥasan al-Bakrī (d. 952/1545–6), a rich ʿālim and a Sufi, wrote poetry. Shaʿrānī reports that he was the first to go on pilgrimage in a litter (miḥaffa)	en
Goldie	Something which is golden in color.	You'd expect the rainbows and possibly the browns, but not the blues and the goldies, which can look truly spectacular	en
Roomset	(Chiefly, UK) A model or part of a showroom etc. furnished to look like a room in a house. [from 20th c.	You can then hang pictures or mirrors - whatever seems appropriate to your setting. The finishing touch is a remnant of thick foambacked carpet which greatly enhances the effect of the roomset, provides the model with a comfortable surface either for her feet, or to sit or lie upon, if your shot demands it, and which also serves to conceal any imperfect match between the floor and the bottoms of your flats	en
Chiefery	(Historic) An Irish head tax.	By procuring his Majesty to release to several Irish papists, some whereof were deeply engaged in the horrid rebellion of that kingdom, the chiefery's or head-rents reserved to the crown, out of the forfeited estates of papists Papists there, being a principal part of his majesty's revenue in that kingdom	en
Two week millionaire	(Thailand) a tourist who spends extravagantly during a vacation.	Now once more this is not always the case and you will have heard speak of the two week millionaire? This can be a term given to a person that goes on holiday after saving every cent for the other 50 weeks and reveals off by spending a small fortune whereas he is away	en

Varlet

(Archaic) A rogue or scoundrel.

My lady to be called a nasty Scotch wh–re by such a varlet!—To be sure I wish I had knocked his brains out with the punchbowl

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Amphi

Surrounding, around, encircling.

Amphiphyte

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Bosom

A breast, one of a woman's breasts.

I dont [sic] know that her bosoms were fuller than usual

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Tweenlight

(Rare, or, dialectal) The period between dusk and nightfall; twilight.

It was not yet dusk,but the 'tween-light was blurring the outline of all things, when they came at last, two or maybe three miles down river, to the ford of a stream brawling down from the high chalk, and saw through the smoke-soft screen of willows and alders the gleam of a firelit doorway reflected in the glossy darkness of a mill leat

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Semifactorial

(Mathematics, combinatorics, rare).

(In the formulas above we use the Euler beta function, a Jacobi polynomial evaluated at three, and also the familiar double factorial (also known as the semifactorial) notation defined by n!! = \begin{cases}; \displaystyle 1 \times 3 \times 5 \times \dots \times n & \text{if } n \text{ is odd}, \\[5pt]; \displaystyle 2 \times 4 \times 6 \times \dots \times n & \text{if } n \text{ is even}.; \end{cases}By convention, 0!! = (-1)!! = 1

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Osteoprotective

(Physiology) That protects bone from physical damage.

Potential differences in the OC gene expression between postmenopausal women treated and not treated with HRT would allow determining if osteoprotective effect of estrogen is exerted, inter alia, by changes in metabolism of OC

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Bigness

(Now, rare) Size. [from 15th c.

He that vvould diſcern the rudimentall ſtroak of a plant, may behold it in the Originall of Duckvveed, at the bigneſſe of a pins point, from convenient vvater in glaſſes, vvherein a vvatchfull eye may alſo diſcover the puncticular Originals of Perivvincles and Gnats

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Hazel dormouse

A small nocturnal dormouse, Muscardinus avellanarius, with golden-brown fur and large black eyes.

A volunteer checks a rare hazel dormouse as 20 breeding pairs were released into an undisclosed woodland location near Royal Leamington Spa in Warwickshire, UK

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Firlot

(Scotland) A measure of capacity, once used for corn etc, equal to four pecks.

T]he valuation of lands, tenor of leaſes, the rents, the entails, rent charges, life rents, and payments for or out of land revenue, are all reckoned in Scotland by the chalder, boll, firlot, and lippy, and cannot be altered; [...

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Button day

(Australia) A day on which money is raised for a group or cause by selling buttons for people to wear.

In late November 1917, the editor of the Melbourne Argus was urged to spread the word about a possible 'button day' specifically aimed at prisoner-of-war relief: 'As an ardent supporter of the Button Fund collections I should like to urge the organisers . . . to arrange for a Prisoners' Day and that without delay . . . Can we not have a button day 'for all prisoners and captives'

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Yammer

The act or noise of yammering.

The house is just as he had imagined it would be: rubbishy furniture, a clutter of ornaments (porcelain shepherdesses, cowbells, an ostrich-feather flywhisk), the yammer of the radio, the cheeping of birds in cages, cats everywhere underfoot

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Miscue

A miss of the object one intended to hit.

Some comical defending involving two terrible clearances saw Kingson called on to block Welbeck's strike and then Evatt made amends for his shocking miscue by heading Bent's powerful follow-up over the bar

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Critical race theory

A movement in academia involving the application of critical theory to issues surrounding the interaction between racial dynamics and social and legal power.

The Critical Race Theory (CRT) movement is a collection of activists and scholars interested in studying and transforming the relationship among race, racism and power

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Psychosemantics

The study of how meaning is inferred.

Psychosemantics has a long history in psychology and includes concepts and techniques developed by the American psychologist Osgood (Osgood, 1971; Osgood, Suci, & Tannenbaum, 1957( and Kelly (1955). Russian psychosemantics is based on the methodological and theoretical foundations introduced by Lev Vygotsky, Alexei Leontiev, and Alexander Luria

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Axe-murder

To murder (someone) with an axe.

So […] the macabre episode of the two Americans axe-murdered […] became another chapter in the bloody annals of the Korean conflict

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o

(Unstressed) usually before vowels.

Gimme two o’ those ones

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Back

The side of a blade opposite the side used for cutting.

Tap it with the back of your knife

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Expatiate

To write or speak at length; to be copious in argument or discussion.

To the pure mind of Isabella thought of no other had arisen; and it was far better that the generous romance of her young heart should expatiate on the rival in heaven, than for a moment dread a rival on earth, and therefore become subject to jealousy..

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Interimperialist

Between imperialists.

After the Second International collapsed following its surrender to the inter-imperialist chauvinism of World War I, German revolutionary elements joined the Communist Party

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Roll

(Transitive) To beat up; to assault.

They rolled him for his money, and that would have been that, but the guy tried to fight back

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Dead end

(Mining) The inner end of a drift or tunnel.

The ventilation of dead ends — always a serious problem — has in some mines been an absolute necessity. At the Oriental Consols Gold Mine a crosscut at a depth of 2,600 ft. has been continued to over 1,400 ft. from the shaft, and at the No. 2 South Great Eastern Gold Mine crosscutting and driving has been carried on at depths of 1,750 ft. and 2,000 ft. In order to ventilate these dead ends blowers have been used to force air into the faces through lines of pipes

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Polypheme

(Rare) Polyphemus.

Slowly, amidst the distorted horrors of that indescribable scene, she began to churn the lethal waters; whilst on the masonry of that charnel shore that was not of earth the titan Thing from the stars slavered and gibbered like Polypheme cursing the fleeing ship of Odysseus

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Chime

A small bell or other ringing or tone-making device as a component of some other device.

The professor had stuffed a wad of gum into the chime of his doorbell so that he wouldn't be bothered

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Disposing

Acting to predispose or incline.

Autumn was considered the season most disposing to melancholy

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Quattuordecuple

(Rare) Fourteenfold.

He chunked a wedge 20 yards short of the green, advanced his next pitch just five yards, then half-shanked his 14th shot to the back-right of the putting surface — above the hole, which is not where you want to be on the sloping green. He cautiously tapped that putt but not cautiously enough; it nearly rolled off the green, leaving himself 15 feet back up the hill. A tidy two-putt from there and Birrell had made a 17. Yep, a quattuordecuple-bogey

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Languor

(Uncountable) Dullness, sluggishness; lack of vigour; stagnation.

I rushed towards her, and embraced her with ardour; but the deathly languor and coldness of the limbs told me, that what I now held in my arms had ceased to be the Elizabeth whom I had loved and cherished

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Inoffensive

Not offensive.

On January 7, 1964, a group of American students at Balboa High School in the Panama Canal Zone set into motion events that soon threatened our relations with Panama and endangered operation of the Panama Canal. It was, on the surface, an inoffensive act: The students raised the American flag in front of the school

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Bear away the bell

(Idiom, obsolete) To be superior in something.

And as these western men do bear away the bell for might and sleight in wrestling , so the scholars here have always acquitted themselves with credit in palæstrâ literariâ

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Countercorruption

Opposing or countering corruption.

It quoted Transparency International, the global countercorruption organization, as estimating his wealth at $15 billion to $35 billion

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Underbum

(UK, slang) The lower part of the buttocks, as revealed by certain clothing such as skimpy shorts.

Not done with just showing underbum, the front of the star's shorts featured distressed holes which the top her thighs showed through

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Main

(Video gaming) The primary character that one plays in a video game in which one can play more than one character.

My WoW main has reached level cap and I’m on my way getting my first alt there as well

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Strange

Unfamiliar, not yet part of one's experience.

She's probably sitting there hoping a couple of strange detectives will drop in

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Superinduce

To bring in or introduce as an addition; to produce, cause, bring on.

I once heard a worthy woman who wished to be elegant, say of her husband, that he was "sufferin' very bad with bronchriches which were superinduced by excessive exposure." The truth and the English of which was that the good man had a cough brought on by getting very wet and cold

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Lycan

A werewolf.

He staggered for a moment, then gritted his teeth, turning to face the Woodland lycan, his arms raised to block the next punch, and the next. The Woodland pack gathered close, shouting encouragement to their alpha prime

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Spangle

Any of a number of swallowtail butterflies (genus Papilio); specifically Papilio protenor.

Many species like Yellow-crested Spangle Papilio elephenor, Nevill's Windmill Atrophaneura nevilli were recorded from the area during earlier surveys, but we did not record these species till date

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Merwolf

(Fantasy) A mermaid wolf; a sea wolf.

The Humdrum had turned the merwolves against the school, and they were crawling around, dragging their fins, getting everything wet and gnashing their teeth at little kids, and then Penelope Bunce, the hero of our story, cast a spell that made the clouds rain silver—

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Extenuate

(To degrade (someone); to detract from (someone's qualities, reputation, etc.); to depreciate, to disparage.

I]t hath beene ordinarie vvith politique men to extenuate and diſable learned men by the names of Pedantes: […

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Nerven

(Transitive, rare) To innerve.

…] if I give them such serving as I can as to money it is impossible for me to raise it as this alarm has stopt[sic] all my channels and if I can't get matters on such a footing as to raise my credit again which is entirely knocked down, I must and am nervened to give up

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Catchweight

(Horse racing) Without any weight restrictions; without being handicapped.

To ride catchweight

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Hot-milk cake

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THe[sic] first recipe is one for a hot-milk cake similar to one that my Aunt Belle used to make for us kids after school

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Polemical

Being an attempt to evaluate the arguments comprehensively.

Bachelard has given a clear analysis of the "Atlas complex", a polemical complex and schema of verticalising effort or elevation, accompanied by a feeling of monarchical contemplation which diminishes the world so as better to glorify the gigantic, and the ambition inherent in ascensional reveries

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O'clock

(With a numeral, one to twelve) In conjunction with a numeral, indicates the direction, relative to the speaker or a vehicle, especially an aircraft, corresponding to the direction the hour hand is pointing at the time corresponding to the numeral, with twelve representing directly ahead on a horizontal plane, or directly up on a vertical plane, and three being to the right on either.

Three o'clock and nine o'clock would be at the outer right and outer left sides of the tree, respectively, and so on. The clock technique is a very helpful way for one bird watcher to direct others to a hard-to-spot perched bird

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Greenie

(US, slang) A beginner, a novice; a greenhorn.

…] “When the teacher says ‘Good Morning,’ you say, ‘Fuck You.’ That′s what you say in America.” Sometimes they varied this with “son of a bitch.” Sure enough the greenie parroted these instructions to the merriment of the classroom

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Vibey

(Informal) Having a vibe; atmospheric and trendy.

Couples were dancing to the latest vibey music

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Amelodically

In an amelodic manner.

Then, as the theatergoers arrived, he began to play amelodically, as if tuning his instrument

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Nub

(Theatre) A passage of Shakespearean blank verse.

A nub is a passage of blank verse that Shakespearean actors have sometimes relied upon when they forget their lines. It doesn't have to make any sense, but it must sound plausible. To alert the other actors on stage that the speaker is in difficulty, the word nub is used in the first line

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Jollily

In a jolly manner.

Every servant in the family, from high to low, wished Tom success, and I can fancy, an’ please your honour, I see him this moment with his white dimity waistcoat and breeches, and hat a little o’one side, passing jollily along the street, swinging his stick, with a smile and a cheerful word for every body he met

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Cunt-lapper

Alternative form of cuntlapper.

…] telling me I was a wonderful cunt lapper […

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Jetter

One who drives or rides in a jet-propelled vehicle.

The executive jetter's time-advantage over scheduled flights has, indeed, increased

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Sure-handed

Confident and skillful; practiced; expert.

While Heaphy was in the role of hawk-eyed, sure-handed, specimen-procuring guide, Hochstetter, Haast and their colleagues were delighted by him and quick to sing his praises

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Anybodies

(Nonstandard).

And it's only fathers who love anybodies; Nurse told me they always did

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Enhearse

(Transitive) To place into, or as if into, a hearse or coffin.

Dutifully we queueBy twosomes for each surrey cloaked in blackTo pull up and enhearse us

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Polki

(India) Of diamonds: unfaceted.

We're doing a lot of polki or uncut diamond jewellery sets in real gold. A lot of brides are opting for polki jewellery because it looks dressier and works better for a wedding

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Stalemate

(Transitive, figuratively) To bring about a stalemate, in which no advance in an argument is achieved.

But with the war also still largely stalemated, other theatres of conflict have become more important. In Russia’s case, that includes the secret domain

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Sheeplike

Resembling a sheep: docile or uncomplaining, or willing to follow a leader blindly.

Occasionally I succumb to the vibrations in the atmosphere and follow, sheeplike, the movements of the crowd

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Bangla

(Nonstandard) Bengali (ethnicity).

On Friday, Bengalis will welcome 1429 as per Bangla calendar

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Rise and shine

(Idiomatic, imperative) Used to wish someone happiness upon waking up.

Good morning, little Martin; rise and shine

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Beclap

To clap for; to applaud.

In the course of his table-talk, during the French war, the ex-chancellor once remarked that, though the Prussian people huzza'd and beclapped their great Frederick when alive, […

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Fundamental theorem

(Chiefly, mathematics) A theorem (or, in non-mathematical fields, a commonly accepted hypothesis) considered to be of central importance to a specified field.

In this and the next chapter I return to the fundamental theorems of welfare economics. In this chapter I argue that the first fundamental theorem of welfare economics—asserting the efficiency of competitive economics—is fundamentally flawed

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Monstrosity

An organism showing abnormal development or deformity.

Geoffroy St. Hilaire's experiments show that unnatural treatment of the embryo causes monstrosities; and monstrosities cannot be separated by any clear line of distinction from mere variations

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Gamified

Turned into a game.

Unlike older conservatives, Yiannopoulos understood what was bubbling up on platforms such as Reddit and 4chan: a new gamified form of hard-right discourse based not on ideas but on memes, harassment and “saying the unsayable” […]

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Tonish

(Now, rare) Conforming to the "ton"; modish, stylish.

…] those who […] have an inclination to give their sons, their daughters, and their servants, a tonish finish to their educations, may sin in haste and repent at leisure by passing a season at Bath

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Pangram

A sentence that contains every letter of the alphabet.

Like the search for the perfect palindrome, the pursuit of the perfect pangram has obsessed many people

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President-elect

(Sum of parts) A person who has been elected to a presidency but has not yet been inducted into office. [from 18th c.

The Armed Forces Revolutionary Council (later to be referred as AFRC) government handed over the reins of government to the president elect of the Third Republic Dr. Hilla Limann, thus ending seven and a half years of military rule

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Aftersee

(Transitive, uncommon, obsolete) To see or witness after the fact or event; see in hindsight or retrospectively.

...] of Durham if he will come, or send his brother to enter as one authorized for such a matter, and so to carry it away without delay; and cannot Mr. Cox see, or foresee, or aftersee what cause or colour might work such alteration

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Bed

(Intransitive) To go to bed; to put oneself to sleep.

I usually listen to music before I bed

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Latibulize

(Rare) To retire into a den, or hole, and lie dormant in winter.

When kept in gardens in Italy and Germany, it is observed to latibulize in October, and to reappear in April

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Camel

Of a light brown color like that of a camel.

…] try to select accessories that are in the same color family as your coat," says millinery designer Patricia Underwood. To pick up the weave of a brown tweed jacket, for instance, choose a camel hat and black gloves

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Transientness

The state of being transient.

Thus, scientific journalism has devised a way to make information from meetings more readily available: the publication of abstracts and proceedings that are not peer-reviewed, an intermediate step between the transientness of newspaper reports and the permanence of the peer-reviewed paper

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Beread

(Transitive, archaic) To advise; inform; counsel; plan; (reflexive) to advise or bethink oneself; deliberate.

And when the time hung with a heaviness I beread me of them

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Lithium titanate oxide battery

A modified lithium ion battery that uses lithium titanate nanocrystals, instead of carbon, on the surface of its anodes.

Stadler therefore proposed a solution based on a Class 88 that involved an updated diesel alternator set plus Lithium Titanate Oxide (LTO) batteries However, the manufacturer does not regard the subsequent Class 93 as an updated and upgraded Class 88 - it is much more

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Poristic

Of or relating to a porism; of the nature of a porism.

Poristic thoery

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Smotheriness

The quality or state of being smothery.

In order to escape the smotheriness of a closely built up city and because it was cheaper, I lived pretty well out to the limits of Clamport […

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Beggar the question

To beg the question.

Unfortunately, this definition beggars the question because we are left not knowing what it is that allows access to the sick role, but prefer not to seek it

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Greengrocer's apostrophe

An incorrectly used apostrophe, especially one mistakenly used to form the plural of a noun, for example to write the plural of banana as banana's instead of bananas.

When applied in English it produces greengrocer's apostrophes

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Horsepower

(Uncountable) Power derived from the motion of a horse.

The wheel was to have been turned by horsepower, but it was adapted to be driven by a mill-wheel on the river Derwent […

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Misstation

To station improperly.

I can well perceive in the imperfection of our reasoning powers, a sufficient cause, if not adequate excuse, for differences of opinion on many important matters; but if there be an individual who in contemplating the arrangements of nature, can shut out from his view all idea of a supreme, intelligent, and benevolent cause, I would say that he has been misstationed on this fair world, so deeply impressed with the most marked characters wisdom, beneficence, and love

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Got to

(Informal).

Sorry, but I got to go

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Arrow in the quiver

(Idiomatic, ) One of several available options or courses of action.

And sooner or later, the European indictment will become a standard arrow in the quiver of aggrieved parties across the globe, from Afghanistan to Zimbabwe

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Fantasticize

Synonym of fantasize.

He doesn't have any false pretensions, he's straightforward, no fantasticizing, but full of mood

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Frithy

Woody; relating to brushwood, undergrowth, or a partial clearing in a forest.

In north India, small round, oblong or long, temperate varieties of radish may also be grown, but these should be harvested within 25-30 days, otherwise they become frithy very soon

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Chill

(Transitive) To lower the temperature of something; to cool.

Chill before serving

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Giveaway

An event at which things are given away for free.

His counterpart Tom Wiles also speaks directly for the honored persons in giveaways; in Shannon's outgoing princess giveaway, he addresses a woman named Rose as Shannon gives her a dance shawl: "Shannon says/ now you can kick up your heels" (Wiles 1999)

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Vivien

A en given name, an exclusively feminine spelling variant of Vivian.

This habit you have contracted of being a little boy," his mamma said to him, "is most inconvenient. Your name was to be Vivien. Vivien is early English, and picturesque and full of color; Vivian, which is a boy's name, I don't think so much of. - -

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Collapsism

The belief that a system or entity will collapse.

Yet even in Grossman's time, at least one radical voice challenged his collapsism. Council Communist Anton Pannekoek […] charged Grossman with citing Marx's writings on capitalism's periodic crises to suggest the latter believed in the notion of a collapse from its limits

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Lat

(UK, _, slang, usually, in the plural) A latrine: a rudimentary or military facility for urination and defecation.

Other synonyms [sc. for lavatories] are rears, lats... and dubs

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Retrenchment

(Especially, politics) The adoption of a defensive and hostile posture; refusal to compromise, radicalization.

Retrenchment—on the left and the right—led to exclusivist, mutually recriminating positions on the film that made reasoned debate almost impossible, as opponents drowned each other out with competing narratives of “victimization” and “pariah” status

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Palaeoburrow

Alternative form of paleoburrow.

Several tunnels, discovered over the past several decades, are interpreted as palaeoburrows built by fossil mammals, based on morphological patterns, transgressive boundaries in relation to the sedimentary units, and the presence of tracks on the walls and roofs

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Pithecanthropoid

Pertaining to or characteristic of the pithecanthropoids.

God! those carrion black pits of sawed, picked bones and opened skulls! Those nightmare chasms choked with the pithecanthropoid, Celtic, Roman, and English bones of countless unhallowed centuries

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Unglazed

Having no glaze (no glazed coating).

The unglazed donuts can be frozen for up to a month

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Acute

Intense; sensitive; sharp.

Then, at three, for Neville's sake and for the sake of her marriage as undernourished and spectral as it had been rendered by absence, its substance being all in the future, and an honest hope of hearing some news or of extending solace to other women, not least those with children, who seemed each to have an acuter sense of the man she was missing than Alice had of Neville, she attended the Friday meeting for wives and mothers of prisoners of war at the School of the Arts

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Paper

A newspaper or anything used as such (such as a newsletter or listing magazine).

I don't want to spoil any comparison you are going to make," said Jim, "but I was at Winchester and New College." ¶ "That will do," said Mackenzie. "I was dragged up at the workhouse school till I was twelve. Then I ran away and sold papers in the streets, and anything else that I could pick up a few coppers by—except steal. […].

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Vara

(Historical) A traditional Portuguese unit of length, equivalent to about 1.1 m.

(Coordinate terms: (1⁄40 vara) polegada, (1⁄5 vara) palmo, (3⁄10 vara) Portuguese foot, (3⁄5 vara) covado, (English equivalents to the vara) yard, rod, ell, (1+1⁄2 varas) passo, (1+4⁄5 varas) toesa, (2 varas) braça

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Intraaortic

Within the aorta.

Table 1 The patient characteristics before extracorporeal membrane oxygenation Continuous variables are reported as median (interquartile range) CPR cardiopulmonary resuscitation, ED emergency department, E-CPR extracorporeal cardiopulmonary resuscitation, ECMO extracorporeal membrane oxygenation, BUN blood urea nitrogen, AST aspartate transaminase, ALT alanine transaminase, IABP intraaortic balloon pump, SOFA Sequential Organ Failure Assessment, SAPS II Simplified Acute Physiology Score II *Hypothermia, malignant arrhythmia, dilated cardiomyopathy, ischemic cardiomyopathy, commotio cordis, abdominal aortic aneurysm rupture † Door to ECMO time: the time from arrival at the ED to ECMO implantation ‡ Hypoxic brain damage, hemothorax, pulmonary hemorrhage, chest wall compartment syndrome, chylothorax The characteristics of survivors and non-survivors during extracorporeal membrane oxygenation support a Fisher’s exact test

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Slinky

Furtive, stealthy or catlike.

“But of all the awful, second-rate girls I ever met, she’s the worst! […] She’s a sly, creepy, slinky, made-up, insincere vampire! She’s common! She’s awful! She’s a cat!”

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Mihaffa

(Middle East, Central Asia, &, _, India, chiefly, _) Various forms of covered animal-borne litters, chiefly for female passengers.

(..ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad Abuʾl-Ḥasan al-Bakrī (d. 952/1545–6), a rich ʿālim and a Sufi, wrote poetry. Shaʿrānī reports that he was the first to go on pilgrimage in a litter (miḥaffa)

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Goldie

Something which is golden in color.

You'd expect the rainbows and possibly the browns, but not the blues and the goldies, which can look truly spectacular

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Roomset

(Chiefly, UK) A model or part of a showroom etc. furnished to look like a room in a house. [from 20th c.

You can then hang pictures or mirrors - whatever seems appropriate to your setting. The finishing touch is a remnant of thick foambacked carpet which greatly enhances the effect of the roomset, provides the model with a comfortable surface either for her feet, or to sit or lie upon, if your shot demands it, and which also serves to conceal any imperfect match between the floor and the bottoms of your flats

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Chiefery

(Historic) An Irish head tax.

By procuring his Majesty to release to several Irish papists, some whereof were deeply engaged in the horrid rebellion of that kingdom, the chiefery's or head-rents reserved to the crown, out of the forfeited estates of papists Papists there, being a principal part of his majesty's revenue in that kingdom

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Two week millionaire

(Thailand) a tourist who spends extravagantly during a vacation.

Now once more this is not always the case and you will have heard speak of the two week millionaire? This can be a term given to a person that goes on holiday after saving every cent for the other 50 weeks and reveals off by spending a small fortune whereas he is away

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