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1. high spirits; exhilaration; exuberance.
2. a boiling over; overflow. |
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1. green with vegetation; covered with growing plants or grass:
"a verdant oasis."
2. of the color green:
"a verdant lawn."
3. inexperienced; unsophisticated:
"verdant college freshmen." |
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1. the hind part of a saddle, usually curved upward.
2. a corner; piece; portion:
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noun, Armor.
1. a long defensive shirt, usually of mail, extending to the knees; byrnie |
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Chiefly British. a costume or outfit of clothing, especially for a specific purpose:
"ski kit; dancing kit; battle kit." |
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| a measurement equal to approximately an arm's length |
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verb (used with object), stropped, stropping.
to sharpen on or as if on a strop. |
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noun, Scot. and North England
1. a child; son or daughter. |
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| to scatter like pins knocked over by a bowling ball |
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| to flow away like water draining off the deck of a ship |
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characterized by dignified propriety in conduct, manners, appearance, character, etc. |
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| covering something that is exposed |
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| The wild man (also wildman, or "wildman of the woods", archaically woodwose or wodewose, today werewolf syndrome or hypertrichosis) is a historical figure that appears in the artwork and literature of medieval Europe, comparable to the satyr or faun type in classical mythology and to Silvanus, the Roman god of the woodlands. |
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1. a military encampment made with tents or improvised shelters, usually without shelter or protection from enemy fire.
2. the place used for such an encampment.
verb (used without object), bivouacked, bivouacking.
3. to rest or assemble in such an area; encamp. |
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verb (used with object), inveigled, inveigling.
1. to entice, lure, or ensnare by flattery or artful talk or inducements (usually followed by into):
"to inveigle a person into playing bridge."
2. to acquire, win, or obtain by beguiling talk or methods (usually followed by from or away):
"to inveigle a theater pass from a person." |
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1. a glass bottle, especially one for holding vinegar, oil, etc., for the table. |
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1. the space about the altar of a church, usually enclosed, for the clergy and other officials. |
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1. Usually, trammels. a hindrance or impediment to free action; restraint:
"the trammels of custom."
2. an instrument for drawing ellipses.
3. Also called tram. a device used to align or adjust parts of a machine.
4. trammel net.
5. a fowling net.
6. a contrivance hung in a fireplace to support pots or kettles over the fire.
7. a fetter or shackle, especially one used in training a horse to amble.
verb (used with object), trammeled, trammeling or (especially British) trammelled, trammelling.
8. to involve or hold in trammels; restrain.
9. to catch or entangle in or as in a net. |
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| disembowel or dissect a deer |
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certain of the inward parts of an animal, especially of a deer, used as food. |
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noun, British Dialect
1. a ravine formed in rock by the action of running water.
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1. the backbone or spine, especially of an animal.
2. the whole or a piece of the backbone of an animal with adjoining parts, cut for cooking.
3. a ridge or crest, as of land.
4. Nautical. a.an angular intersection of the sides and bottom of a vessel.
b.a longitudinal member running behind this. |
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| Over full/bloated from excess consumption of food. |
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1.(informal) impudence
2.bitterness; rancour
3.something bitter or disagreeable
4.(physiology) an obsolete term for bile
5. an obsolete term for gall bladder |
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1. a trifling away of time; dawdling.
2. amorous toying; flirtation. |
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verb (used with object)
1. to carry lightly and smoothly through the air or over water:
"The gentle breeze wafted the sound of music to our ears."
2. to send or convey lightly, as if in flight:
"The actress wafted kisses to her admirers in the audience."
3. Obsolete. to signal to, summon, or direct by waving.
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4. to float or be carried, especially through the air:
"The sound wafted on the breeze. The music wafted across the lake." |
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1. a person who or thing that harries.
2. any of several short-winged hawks of the genus Circus that hunt over meadows and marshes and prey on reptiles and small birds and mammals.
3. (initial capital letter) Military. a one- or two-seat British-American fighter, both an attack and a reconnaissance aircraft, featuring a turbofan engine with a directable thrust that enables it to land and take off vertically.
1. one of a breed of medium-sized hounds, used, usually in packs, in hunting.
2. a cross-country runner. |
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1. a scolding or a long or intense verbal attack; diatribe.
2. a long, passionate, and vehement speech, especially one delivered before a public gathering.
3. any long, pompous speech or writing of a tediously hortatory or didactic nature; sermonizing lecture or discourse.
verb (used with object), harangued, haranguing.
4. to address in a harangue. |
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