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ABANDONS |
Deserts |
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FORSAKES |
Deserts |
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COMEUPPANCE |
Just deserts |
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LEAVES |
Deserts with foliage? |
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CONDIGNNESS |
Agreeableness to deserts; suitableness. |
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TRENDSETTERS |
Dishevelled Trent deserts fashion leaders |
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FORSAKER |
One who forsakes or deserts. |
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DESERTER |
Person who deserts a party to join another one |
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TURNCOAT |
Person who deserts a party to join another one |
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SULTRY |
Very hot, burning, and oppressive; as, Libya's sultry
deserts. |
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RATTER |
One who, or that which, rats, as one who deserts his party. |
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RENEGADE |
One who deserts from a military or naval post; a
deserter. |
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SIROCCO |
An oppressive, relaxing wind from the Libyan deserts,
chiefly experienced in Italy, Malta, and Sicily. |
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SATISFY |
To pay to the extent of claims or deserts; to give what is
due to; as, to satisfy a creditor. |
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DZERON |
The Chinese yellow antelope (Procapra gutturosa), a
remarkably swift-footed animal, inhabiting the deserts of Central Asia,
Thibet, and China. |
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BEDOUIN |
One of the nomadic Arabs who live in tents, and are
scattered over Arabia, Syria, and northern Africa, esp. in the deserts. |
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CHICK-PEA |
Its nutritious seed, used in cookery, and especially,
when roasted (parched pulse), as food for travelers in the Eastern
deserts. |
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RAT |
One who deserts his party or associates; hence, in the trades,
one who works for lower wages than those prescribed by a trades union. |
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SAND |
Tracts of land consisting of sand, like the deserts of Arabia
and Africa; also, extensive tracts of sand exposed by the ebb of the
tide. |
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ZILLA |
A low, thorny, suffrutescent, crucifeous plant (Zilla
myagroides) found in the deserts of Egypt. Its leaves are boiled in
water, and eaten, by the Arabs. |
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MANNA |
A name given to lichens of the genus Lecanora, sometimes
blown into heaps in the deserts of Arabia and Africa, and gathered and
used as food. |
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PLAYA |
A beach; a strand; in the plains and deserts of Texas, New
Mexico, and Arizona, a broad, level spot, on which subsequently becomes
dry by evaporation. |
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BUSHMAN |
One of a race of South African nomads, living principally
in the deserts, and not classified as allied in race or language to any
other people. |
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RETRIBUTION |
That which is given in repayment or compensation;
return suitable to the merits or deserts of, as an action; commonly,
condign punishment for evil or wrong. |
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SIMOON |
A hot, dry, suffocating, dust-laden wind, that blows
occasionally in Arabia, Syria, and neighboring countries, generated by
the extreme heat of the parched deserts or sandy plains. |