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CHOOSIER |
More particular |
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FUSSIER |
More particular |
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DESCEND |
To pass from the more general or important to the
particular or less important matters to be considered. |
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ENCORE |
Once more; again; -- used by the auditors and
spectators of plays, concerts, and other entertainments, to call for a
repetition of a particular part. |
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EMPHASIS |
A particular stress of utterance, or force of voice,
given in reading and speaking to one or more words whose signification
the speaker intends to impress specially upon his audience. |
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STRAP |
Something made of such a strip, or of a part of one, or a
combination of two or more for a particular use; as, a boot strap,
shawl strap, stirrup strap. |
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L'ENVOY |
One or more detached verses at the end of a literary
composition, serving to convey the moral, or to address the poem to a
particular person; -- orig. employed in old French poetry. |
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RECONNAISSANCE |
An examination of a region as to its general
natural features, preparatory to a more particular survey for the
purposes of triangulation, or of determining the location of a public
work. |
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COUNT |
A formal statement of the plaintiff's case in court; in a
more technical and correct sense, a particular allegation or charge in
a declaration ... |
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LOTTERY |
... chance;
esp., a gaming scheme in which one or more tickets bearing particular
numbers draw prizes, and the rest of tickets are blanks. Fig. : A... |
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CONTRACT |
The agreement of two or more persons, upon a sufficient
consideration or cause, to do, or to abstain from doing, some act; an
agreement in whic... |
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PARAGRAPH |
... sentence of the paragraph on a new line and at more than the usual
distance from the margin. ... |
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ABSTRACTION |
The act process of leaving out of consideration one or
more properties of a complex object so as to attend to others;
analysis. Thus, when the ... |
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HOTCHPOTCH |
...icular child or children,
for the purpose of a more equal division, or of equalizing the shares
of all the children; the property advanced being... |