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adjective - With the hand turned backward.
- a blow
- indirect, Indirect; awkward; insincere; sarcastic.
- a compliment
- Turned back
- (of writing) inclining to the left
- letters
| | baize |
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noun
- A coarse woolen stuff with a long nap; -- usually dyed in plain colors.
- 1719: w:Daniel Defoe, Daniel Defoe, w:Robinson Crusoe, Robinson Crusoe
- : my goods being all English manufacture, such as cloths, stuffs, , and things particularly valuable and desirable in the country, I found means to sell them to a very great advantage...
- A thick woolen cloth used for coverings (on billiard tables, bird cages etc.)
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| | balbriggan |
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noun
- An unbleached, knitted, cotton fabric mostly used for underwear.
| | barathea |
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noun
- a soft fabric, made from various combinations of wool, silk and cotton, with a lightly ribbed surface
| | bare |
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noun the bare (always with the definite article)
- the naked state, nude body
verb (bar, ing)
- (transitive) To uncover; to reveal; as, to bare one's teeth, to bare one's soul.
adjective (bar, er)
- minimal, Minimal; that is or are just sufficient.
- the necessities
- naked, Naked, uncovered.
- Don't show your backside in public.
- Having no supplies.
- a room of furniture
- The cupboard was .
- Having no decoration.
- The walls of this room are — why not hang some paintings on them?
- Having had what usually covers (something) removed.
- The trees were left after the swarm of locusts devoured all the leaves.
- (slang) A lot or lots of.
- This pornos whack bruv
| | barleycorn |
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noun
- a grain of barley
- (context, UK, obsolete) the length of such a grain; a unit of length of approximately one third (or sometimes one quarter) of an inch or 8mm.
- (architecture. woodworking) a small groove between two mouldings
- In English tradition John Barleycorn personifies beer and whisky which are produced from malt a product of barley.
| | barre |
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noun
- (ballet) A handrail fixed to a wall used for ballet exercises.
| | barred |
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verb - Past tense of bar.
- He the door at evening.
- Prevented.
- He is by term limits from running for a third term in office.
adjective - Having bars, striped.
| | basketry |
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noun
- The process of weave, weaving unspun vegetable fibers to make a basket.
| | bast |
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noun
- fibre made from the phloem of certain plants and used for matting and cord.
| | bat |
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noun
- Any of the small, nocturnal, flying mammals of the order Chiroptera, which navigate by means of echolocation. They look like a mouse with membranous wings extending from the forelimbs to the hind limbs or tail. Altogether, there are about 1.000 bat species in the world.
- (context, offensive) An old woman.
- (1811) A low whore: so called from moving out like a bat in the dusk of the evening.
verb (bats, batting, batted)
- (transitive) to hit with a bat.
- (intransitive) to take a turn at hitting a ball with a bat in sports like cricket, baseball and softball, as opposed to fielding.
- (intransitive) to strike or swipe as though with a bat
- The cat batted at the toy.
| | batik |
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noun - A wax-resist method of dyeing fabric.
| | batt |
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noun - Pieces of fabric or fibre used for stuffing; batting; insulation
| | batten |
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noun
- A thin strip of wood used in construction to hold members of a structure together or to provide a fixing point.
- (nautical) A long strip of wood, metal, fibreglass etc used for various purposes aboard ship, esp. one inserted in a pocket sewn on the sail in order to keep the sail flat.
- In stagecraft, a long pipe, usually metal, affixed to the ceiling or fly system in a Theater.
verb
- (nautical) to fasten or secure a hatch etc using battens.
| | batting |
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noun
- cotton, wool, silk or synthetic material used to stuff the inside of a mattress, quilt etc
- special cotton for surgery.
- the act of someone who bats
(wikipedia, batting (cricket))
(wikipedia, batting (baseball))
verb
- (present participle of, bat)
| | beat |
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noun
- A pulsation or throb.
- A pulse on the beat level, the metric level at which pulses are heard as the basic unit. Thus a beat is the basic time unit of a piece.
- A rhythm.
- A pause with the camera focused on one shot, often a characters face (often used in screenplays/teleplays).
- The route of a patrol by a guard or officer as in walk the beat.
- In newspapering, the primary focus of a reporter's stories (such as police/courts, education, city government, business, etc.).
- A small part of a dramatic play.
verb (beats, beating, beat, beaten)
- To hit; to knock; to pound; to strike.
- As soon as she heard the news, she went into a rage and the wall with her fists until her knuckles bled.
- To strike or pound repeatedly, usually in some sort of rhythm.
- He danced hypnotically while she the atabaque.
- To win against; to defeat; to do better than, outdo, or excel someone in a particular, competitive event.
- Jessica had little trouble beating John in tennis. He lost five games in a row.
- No matter how quickly Joe finished his test, Roger always him.
- (context, intransitive, nautical) To sail to windward using a series of alternate tacks across the wind.
- To mix food in a rapid fashion. cf. whip.
- Beat the eggs and whip the cream.
adjective
- (gay slang) fabulous
- Her makeup was beat!
- exhausted
- After the long day, she was feeling completely .
| | beater |
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noun
- A kitchen implement for mixing.
- A stick used to play a percussion instrument.
- US colloquial An automobile in poor operating condition.
- US colloquial A sleeveless undershirt (short for 'wife beater')
- (Beaters) In a hunting party, the group of men used to drive game towards the shooters.
- Papermaking machine for processing fibres by fibrillation in order to improve bonding strength
| | beetle |
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noun
- Any of numerous species of insect in the order Coleoptera characterized by a pair of hard, shell-like, front wings which cover and protect a pair of rear wings when at rest.
- A type of mallet with a large wooden head.
- Nickname of two models of car made by w:Volkswagen, Volkswagen.
| | Bengal |
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proper noun - A region in the northeast of South Asia.
- A player on the team w:Cincinnati Bengals, The Cincinnati Bengals.
- Jones became a in a trade for Smith.
- A short-haired domestic cat breed, which originated in the United States. w:Bengal (cat), Wikipedia
| | Berlin |
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proper noun
- The capital city of Germany.
- One of the component states of Germany according to the current administrative division of the nation.
| | bias |
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noun (wikipedia, Bias (disambiguation), bias)
(es, -, pl2=biasses)
- (countable) (uncountable) inclination towards something; predisposition, partiality, prejudice, preference, predilection
- 1748. David Hume. Enquiries concerning the human understanding and concerning the principles of moral. London: Oxford University Press, 1973. § 4.
- : nature has pointed out a mixed kind of life as most suitable to the human race, and secretly admonished them to allow none of these biasses to draw too much
- (countable) (textile) the diagonal line between warp and weft in a woven fabric
- (electronics) a voltage or current applied for example to a transistor electrode
- (statistics) the difference between the expectation of the sample estimator and the true population value, which reduces the representativeness of the estimator by systematically distorting it
verb (bias, es)
- (transitive) To place bias upon; to influence.
- Our prejudices our views.
| | Billy |
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proper noun
- (given name, male), a diminutive of William.
| | bind |
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noun
- A troublesome situation; a problem; a predicament or quandary.
verb (binds, binding, bound or rarely bounden)
- To connect
- To couple
- To put together in a cover, as of books
- (computing) to associate an identifier with a value; to associate a variable name with the content of a storage location
| | blond |
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noun (s, pl2=blondes)
- A person of fair skin and fair hair (usually spelled "blonde" when referring to a woman).
- A pale golden brown colour.
adjective (er, more)
- Of a bleached, or pale golden colour.
- Of a blond complexion (referring to a person)
| | blotch |
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noun - An uneven patch of color or discoloration.
| | bobbin |
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noun
- In a w:sewing machine, sewing machine, the small spool that holds the lower thread.
- Wind the bobbin, place it in the machine, and raise the thread.
- A spool or cylinder around which wire is coiled.
- Jan. 8, 2004, Machine Design Magazine, p. 108
- : Ignition coils using a molded from high-performance polyester withstand open-circuit bench tests to 70kV.
| | Bolivia |
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proper noun
- a country in South America. Official name: Republic of Bolivia.
| | bolt |
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noun
- A (usually) metal fastener consisting of a cylindrical body, partially or completely threaded, and a larger head; it is inserted into an unthreaded hole (unlike a screw) up to the head, and a nut is threaded on the other end.
- A slide, sliding pin or bar in a lock or latch mechanism.
- A bar of wood or metal dropped in hooks on a door and adjoining walls, or between the two sides of a double door, to prevent the door(s) from being forced open.
- A sliding mechanism to chamber and unchamber a round in a gun.
- A shaft or missile intended to be shot from a crossbow or a catapult, especially a short, stout, blunt-headed arrow.
- A lightning spark, i.e. lightning bolt: a bolt from the blue.
- A large roll of material, e.g. fabric: a bolt of cloth.
- (nautical) The standard measurement of length of canvas for use at sea; 39 yards
verb
- To connect or assemble pieces using a bolt.
- Bolt the vice to the bench.
- To secure a door by locking or barring it.
- Bolt the door.
- To accelerate suddenly.
- The horse bolted.
- To escape.
- Of a plant, to grow quickly; to go to seed.
- Lettuce and spinach will as the weather warms up.
| | bonded |
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verb
- (past of, bond)
| | boon |
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noun
- a blessing or benefit
- Finding the dry cave was a boon to the weary travellers
- Anaesthetics are a great boon to modern surgery
- (archaic) that which is asked or granted as a benefit or favor; a gift; a benefaction; a grant; a present
- (obsolete) a prayer or petition
adjective
- (obsolete) good; prosperous; as, "boon voyage"
- kind; bountiful; benign
- gay; merry; jovial; convivial
- He was a boon companion to have around
| | boucle |
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noun
- a fabric of uneven yarn
| | bow |
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noun verb | | brake |
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noun
- A device used to slow or stop a vehicle, by friction; often installed on the wheels.
- something that slows or stops an action
- (nautical) the handle, manned by up to six men, by which a ship's pump was worked
- a thicket, or an area overgrown with briers etc.
- A type of machine for bending sheet metal. (See wikipedia:Brake (box and pan), wikipedia.)
verb (brak, ing)
- To operate a brake.
- To be stopped or slowed, as if by a brake.
- (archaic) past tense of break
- Exodus 32:3, KJV: And all the people brake off the golden earrings...
| | breathe |
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verb (breathes, breathing, breathed)
- (intransitive) To repeatedly draw air into, and expel it from, the lungs in order to extract oxygen from it and excrete waste products.
- (intransitive) To exchange gases with the environment.
- Garments made of
- and similar new materials breathe well and keep the skin relatively dry during exercise.
- (intransitive) Figuratively, to be relaxed or calm.
- ...a child's peaceful breathing...
- ...the wind breathes through the trees...
- (intransitive) Figuratively, to live.
- I will not allow it, as long as I still .
- (transitive) To repeately draw (something) into, and expel (that thing) from, the lungs.
- Try not to too much smoke.
- (transitive) To whisper quietly.
- He breathed the words into her ear, but she understood them all.
| | brilliantine |
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noun
- A hair pomade, making the hair shine brilliantly.
- 1921 "I wouldn't regret it," said Linda, "if I took Eileen by the shoulders and shook her till I shook the rouge off her cheek, and the brilliantine off her hair, and a million mean little subterfuges out of her soul. Gene Stratton-Porter, Her father`s daughter http://etext.virginia.edu/etcbin/ot2www-pubeng?specfile=/texts/english/modeng/publicsearch/modengpub.o2w&act=surround&offset=603552087&tag=Stratton-Porter,+Gene,+1863-1924:+Her+father`s+daughter,+1921&query=brilliantine&id=StrFath Chapter 4.
- A smooth shiny, luxurious fabric, often of alpaca or vicuí±a.
- Sunday June 11, 1916 No. 112. Bathing Suit of Brilliantine in Navy Blue and Black, trimmed with white mohair braid and buttons (no bloomers). Special 3.95 " The New York Times, http://memory.loc.gov/service/sgp/sgpnyt/1916/191606/19160611/0010.pdf
verb (brilliantin, ing)
- To apply brilliantine to the hair.
| | broadcloth |
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noun
- A fine smooth-faced woolen cloth for men's garments, usually of double width (i.e., a yard and a half); -- so called in distinction from woolens three quarters of a yard wide.
(Webster)
| | broadloom |
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noun
- A wide loom
- A carpet woven on a wide loom
adjective
- woven on a wide loom, and so needing fewer seams
| | brocade |
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noun - thick heavy fabric into which raised patterns have been woven
| | broke |
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verb
- (simple past of, break)
- (context, archaic, or, poetic) (past participle of, break)
- 1999 October 3, J. Stewart Burns, "Mars University", Futurama, season 2, episode 2, Fox Broadcasting Company
- : Guenther: I guess the hat must have my fall.
- (nautical) The sentence of a court martial which deprived an officer of his commission'
- He was and rendered unfit to serve His Majesty at sea.
adjective
- (colloquial) lack, Lacking money; bankrupt
- (colloquial) broken, Broken.
| | brushed |
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adjective - rub, rubbed, especially as a finish.
- The aluminum vase had a soft appearence.
| | buckram |
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noun
- A coarse cloth of linen or hemp, stiffened with size or glue, used in garments to keep them in the form intended, and for wrappers to cover merchandise.
- Quotations
- 1882: Buckram was probably from the first a stiffened material employed for lining, often dyed. — James Edwin Thorold Rogers, A History of Agriculture and Prices in England, Volume 4, p. 557.
- (Bot.) A plant. See Ramson. Dr. Prior.
| | buckskin |
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noun
- (colour) a grayish yellow in colour.
- <table><tr><td>buckskin colour: </td><td bgcolor="
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- the skin of a male deer, a buck
- clothing made from buckskin
adjective
- (colour) of a grayish yellow in colour.
| | bunting |
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noun
- (nautical) A thin cloth of woven wool from which flags are made; it is light enough to spread in a gentle wind but resistant to fraying in a strong wind.
- Flags considered as a group.
- Strips of material used as festive decoration, especially in the colours of the national flag.
- Any of various songbirds of the family Emberizidae having short bills and brown or gray plumage.
| | burl |
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noun
- A knot or lump in thread or cloth.
verb to burl
- To remove the knots in cloth
| | burlap |
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noun
- A very strong, coarse cloth, made from jute, flax or hemp, and used to make sacks etc
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