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A hot, dry, dustladen wind blowing from northern Africa and affectingparts of southern Europe.
A warm, sultry south or southeast wind accompanied by rain,occurring in the same regions. |
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1. Condescending or presumptuous; overbearing;
arbitrary |
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1. To occur again, as an event, experience, etc.
2. To return to the mind.
3. to come up again for consideration, as a question.
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1. a room or place where food is kept; pantry.
2. a supply of food.
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1.Having or showing great warmth or intensity of spirit, feeling,enthusiasm, etc.; ardent:
2. Hot; burning; glowing. |
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1. To draw or bring out or forth; educe; evoke.
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1.A radiance surrounding the head or the whole figure in therepresentation of a sacred personage.
2.any encircling ring of light or color; halo.
3.Geology. a zone of altered country rock around an igneous intrusion.
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1.fixed in direction; steadily directed:
2. firm in purpose, resolution, faith, attachment, etc., as a person:
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unwavering, as resolution, faith, adherence, etc.
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firmly established, as an institution or a state of affairs.
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firmly fixed in place or position.
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1. to give authority or official power to;
empower:
2. to give authority for; formally sanction
(an act or proceeding):
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2.a deep, immeasurable space, gulf, or cavity; vast chasm.
2. anything profound, unfathomable, or infinite: |
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1.penetrating or entering deeply into subjects of thought or knowledge;having deep insight or understanding.
2.originating in or penetrating to the depths of one's being; profoundgrief.
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1.a tube or conduit bent into legs of unequal length, for use in drawinga liquid from one container into another on a lower level by placingthe shorter leg into the container above and the longer leg into theone below, the liquid being forced up the shorter leg and into thelonger one by the pressure of the atmosphere.
2.to convey, draw, or pass through or as if through a siphon
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1. a person who carries a torch.
2. a leader in a movement, campaign, etc.: |
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1.Filled with intense feeling or passion; passionate; ardent. |
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1.to instigate or foster (discord, rebellion,
etc.); promote the growth or development of.
2. to apply warm water or medicated liquid, ointments, etc., to (thesurface of the body). |
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1.a direct route traveled quickly (usually in the phrase
make a beelinefor):
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dreamily or wistfully thoughtful:
a pensive mood.
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expressing or revealing thoughtfulness, usually marked by somesadness:
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1. to show or feel a lively or triumphant joy; rejoice exeedingly; be highly elated or jubliant.
2. Obsolete. to leap, especially for joy. |
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1. to raise irritation and rivial objections; find fault with unecessarily.
2. to oppose by inconsequential, fribolous, or sham objections.
3. a trivial and annoying objection. |
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1. characterized by or in a state of uproar; tumultuous.
2. making an uproar; confused and noisy, as an assembly, person, etc. |
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1. a number of young produced or hatched at one time; a family of offspring or young.
2. to sit upon (eggs) to hatch, as a bird; incubate.
3. kept for breeding. |
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1. Often, hinterlands. the remote or less developed parts of a country; back country.
2. the land lying behind a coastal region. |
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1. formally precise or proper, as persons or behavior; stiffly neat.
2. to draw up the mouth in an affectedly nice or precise way. |
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verb/noun
1. to tread or step heavily and noisily; stamp.
2. to tread heavily, roughly, or carelessly on or over; tread underfoot.
3. the act of trampling.
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noun/verb
1. the body of water held back or controlled by a sluice gate.
2. to let out water by or as if by opening a sluice.
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