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DICE |
They may be loaded |
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BASES |
They may be loaded |
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BLANKS |
They may be loaded |
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ARTS |
They may be fine for students |
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ADS |
They may be classified as personal |
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SCULPTURES |
They may be put on a pedestal |
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NERVES |
They may be made of steel and come in bundles |
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WALLFLOWERS |
They may be in a bunch of girls not dancing |
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TIMEPLEASER |
One who complies with prevailing opinions, whatever
they may be; a timeserver. |
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WEIGHBRIDGE |
A weighing machine on which loaded carts may be
weighed; platform scales. |
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BATTERY |
A number of coated jars (Leyden jars) so connected that
they may be charged and discharged simultaneously. |
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LIGAN |
Goods sunk in the sea, with a buoy attached in order that
they may be found again. See Jetsam and Flotsam. |
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MORGUE |
A place where the bodies of persons found dead are exposed,
that they may be identified, or claimed by their friends; a deadhouse. |
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TOOTHING |
Bricks alternately projecting at the end of a wall, in
order that they may be bonded into a continuation of it when the
remainder is carried up. |
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TYPE |
A simple compound, used as a mode or pattern to which other
compounds are conveniently regarded as being related, and from which
they may be actually or theoretically derived. |
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DUST |
Fine, dry particles of earth or other matter, so comminuted
that they may be raised and wafted by the wind; that which is crumbled
too minute p... |
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SEA DUCK |
Any one of numerous species of ducks which frequent the
seacoasts and feed mainly on fishes and mollusks. The scoters, eiders,
old squaw, and r... |
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CRANNOGE |
One of the stockaded islands in Scotland and Ireland
which in ancient times were numerous in the lakes of both countries.
They may be regarded ... |
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METABOLISM |
...lls
take up and convert into their own proper substance the nutritive
material brought to them by the blood, or by which they transform their
... |
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TOPIC |
... from which arguments may be derived, or to which they may be referred;
also, a prepared form of argument, applicable to a great variety of
case... |
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GENUS |
...tal points
of structure in common, that in the judgment of competent scientists,
they may receive a common substantive name. A genus is not nece... |
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MOLLUSCA |
One of the grand divisions of the animal kingdom,
including the classes Cephalopoda, Gastropoda, PteropodaScaphopoda, and
Lamellibranchiata, or... |
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EXCHANGE |
...one country and payable in another, in which case they
are called foreign bills; or they may be drawn and made payable in the
same country, in w... |
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SHALL |
... futurity simply; as, if I, you, or he shall say they are right. Should
is everywhere used in the same connection and the same senses as shall,
... |