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| in the game of jai alai, the wicker catching/throwing basket |
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| tropical American shrub, grown for its leaves, the source of cocaine |
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| having the same age or date of origin; a contemporary |
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| endure (archaic Scottish) |
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| make corrections to a text; to alter in a corrective way |
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| person working, but not living, in an institution; i.e. a non-resident doctor |
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| relating to a thread or a line; often relating to the lines across the eyepiece of a telescope |
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| a fused material used as a basis for glazes or enamels. or verb - to fuse materials |
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| a drought-resistant plant of the pea family; a source of guar gum; a fine powder of ground guar seeds used as a thickener |
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| relating to the throat of a bird, reptile or fish; a scale/plate on the throat of a reptile or fish |
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| in chemistry, each of two or more compounds with the same formula but a different arrangement of atoms; in physics, each of two or more atomic nuclei that have the same atomic number and mass number, but different energy states |
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| a Central American plant fiber used for cordage, nets, carpet |
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| describing a style of workmanship characteristic of Japan |
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| to adjust the spaces in text before printing; metal type with a projecting part beyond the body/shank. |
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| syphilis, an infectious disease (loo ees) |
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| large-scale; a computer instruction that expands automatically into a set of instructions for a specific task |
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| small white or yellowish nodule produced in the skin by the retention of sebaceous secretion |
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| small, hard pale keratinous nodule formed on the skin (plural: milia) |
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One sixtieth of a fluid gram (one drop)
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| Doctrine that only one supreme being exists |
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| gold or silver plate for holding bread during the Eucharist |
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| a monetary unit in India & Pakistan (p eye ce) |
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| a small mammal related to rabbits, with rounded ears, short limbs and tail |
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| covered with soft hair, furry |
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| peg or spike driven into rock face to support a climber |
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| assume as a fact; put forward as the basis of argument; put in place/position |
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| a translucent, yellowish green quartz |
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| an expression used as a toast when drinking to a person's health |
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| a star that emits rapid repeating radio waves |
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| leaves of a shrub used for tea or to chew, as tobacco (also qhat, quat, cat) |
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| the circulating life force that is a part of Chinese philosophy; variant of chi (chee) |
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| a particle of subatomic matter |
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| a simple hand mill for grinding grain, made of 2 circular stones |
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| a radar beacon for locational purposes |
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| In mathematics, the radian is the standard unit of angular measure. |
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| a pattern of notes & intervals in Indian music |
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| a Turkish alcoholic drink |
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| the dollar unit of S. Africa |
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| that which is seized by plunder |
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| to make something abstract more concrete or real |
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| to rob or steal by force; plunder by raiding |
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| relinquish or surrender to another |
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| an elaborate network of nerve cells or blood vessels (ree tee) |
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| an oak tree in California (ro blay) |
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| a schedule; a round of duty taken in rotation; a sporting events agenda |
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| being the color of a red gem (ruby) |
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| a crease, wrinkle, or fold |
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| using statistics to analyze baseball records/performance |
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| a Jewish person born in Israel or in Palestine (before 1948) |
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| an edible starch from palm trees, made into a flour |
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| an asian antelope with a convex snout, nostrils opening downward |
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| Having a high silica content (about minerals) |
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| a salt marsh, lake, or spring |
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| a ragout or casserole of game stewed in a rich sauce |
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| Japanese 3-stringed lute with a long neck |
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| coarsely ground corn, or a porridge made from it |
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| a yellow or brownish-red form of chalcedony |
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| a very steep slope or bank; to cut or erode a perpendicular hillside |
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| the surge created by a wave |
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| a long, tedious speech or piece of writing; a leveled layer of material; to level a layer of concrete |
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| in rugby, a way of starting play again, in which each team's players come together to try to get control of the ball |
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| the short tail of a rabbit or deer |
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| technique of painting on dry plaster with pigments mixed in water |
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| to close a person's eyes or in falconry, to sew up the bird's eyelids |
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| a plant in the lily family, having green & white flowers |
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| a fine, rich silk material, used for ceremonial robes & banners |
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| the cassia tree; a laxative prepared from dried cassia pods |
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| a ridge or pinnacle on the surface of a glacier |
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| small Eurasian/N African finch with a short bill & streaky plumage |
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fixed in one place; immobile organism.
also a plant/animal attached directly by its base without a stalk |
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| a broken piece of glass, metal, rock or ceramic, having sharp edges |
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| broken piece of ceramic material, found at archaeological sites |
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| the 7 day period of mourning for the dead (Judaic) |
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| an inscribed or painted symbol with magical power; a literary sign/symbol; archaic term for seal. |
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| a straw or wicker beehive |
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| to twist & extend slivers of fiber in carding; the slight irregularlity found in yarn strands that were slubbed, intentionally or accidentally |
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| to fish for eels by thrusting bait into their hiding places |
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| a low block supporting a column |
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| unaccompanied, alone, used in stage directions (plural: soli) |
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| an instrument probe that transmits information about its surroundings (underground, under water, etc.) |
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| a European tree; the fruit of the true service tree (sorb apple) |
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| a variety of sorghum grown for its sweet juice |
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| a N American desert plant of the agave family, with spiny edged leaves & small white flowers; an alcoholic drink made from sotol sap |
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| a spike of minute flowers, typically enclosed in a spathe; in zoology, a part or organ that is conical in shape |
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| strong pole often used for a mast on a ship. (or the main longitudinal beam of an airplane wing.) |
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| a large sheathing bract enclosing the flower cluster of certain plants, especially the spadix of arums & palms |
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| small wooden peg; a cask stopper |
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| a simple brake on a vehicle, especially a stick stuck in the wheels |
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| a small spar reaching diagonally from low on the mast to the upper outer corner of a sail |
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| a channel through which metal or plastic is poured into a mold |
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| to stop the flow of blood from a wound |
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| having a loyal or committed attitude |
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| an upright stone slab or column bearing a commemorative design, often serving as a gravestone |
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| central core of the stem & root of a vascular plant |
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| a line of poetry or prose |
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| the stem (of a mushroom, fern frond, etc.) |
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| a step-like part of a mine or to excavate layers in a mine |
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| a soft twilled silk fabric used in dressmaking |
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| irrational, as in relating to numbers; also, in phonetics, uttered only with the breath |
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| loose white linen vestment worn over a cassock by clergy |
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| a weight used in China & East Asia (about 50 grams); former Chinese monetary unit based of the value of a tael of silver |
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| a goat-like mammal that lives on mountain cliffs/slopes in southern India |
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| plural of talus; ankle bones |
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| in the game of bridge, two cards in one's hand that rank immediately above and below a card held by opponent |
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| at joints, the end of a piece of wood shaped to fit another piece of wood |
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| wide-brimmed subtropical hat with a double crown |
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| a standard unit of magnetic flux density |
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| a protective seed covering |
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| to endure without complaint; tolerate. (archaic Scottish) |
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| (terce) in music, the 3rd in the final chord of a piece in a minor key; a sequence of 3 cards in the same suit; an obsolete measure of liquid capacity |
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| fungal skin diseases, like ringworm |
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| the prototype of a garment made with thin, cheap fabric |
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| a metric ton; 1,000 kilograms |
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| a cap or hat. an antelope |
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| a Japanese decorative gateway to a temple, consisting of two upright posts connected at the top by two horizontal crosspieces |
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| (plural of torso) trunks of the human body |
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| the action of twisting or state of being twisted; in math, the extent to which a curve departs from being planar |
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| large architectural convex molding, esp. as the lowest part of the base of a column; a geometric surface/solid formed by rotating a closed curve around a line in the same plane, but not intersecting (doughnut) |
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| to speak falsely, slander |
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| light-colored volcanic ash used in water-resistant cement |
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| a surgical saw for penetrating the skull |
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| gray mineral occurring as an evaporate in salt deposits |
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| a porous limestone rock formed by water deposits from springs/streams |
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| the darkest part of a shadow, esp. relating to the earth/moon on eclipse |
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| to untwist a strand of a rope |
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| an unexpected & inexplicable change in a situation or a person's behavior |
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| a bluish gray & white squirrel fur often used as clothing trim |
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| guy rope running from the end of a gaff to opposite sides of the deck |
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| relating to the space between the pharynx & the nasal passages, closeable by lifting the velum |
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| the toxic substance found in venom |
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| an Indian stringed instrument |
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| a greenhouse for grapevines |
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| knowledge of the fine arts; the good qualities inherent in a person/thing |
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| brief biographical sketch (plural vitae) |
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| an architectural spiral scroll characteristic of Corinthian/Ionic capitals; a deep-water marine mollusk with a spiral shell |
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| a low wall or dam across a river to control flow/levels |
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| a yellow-flowering European plant of the cabbage family; a dye made from this plant |
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| a moor; a high tract of uncultivated land |
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| easy to steer or manage (about a ship) |
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| archaic term meaning to give birth to a sheep/goat |
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