n. pestle
(a) decree; command
(b) possessing muscular strength; muscle; muscularity; sinew; heftiness
(c) a club-shaped hand tool for grinding and mixing substances in a mortar
(d) a person who works only for money
n. crone
(a) an ugly evil-looking old woman; beldame; witch
(b) a young woman; missy; young lady; young woman
(c) the gracefulness of a person or animal that is quick and nimble; lightness; lightsomeness; nimbleness
(d) a light softness; fluffiness
n. microcosm
(a) a person who is devoted to eating and drinking to excess; trencherman
(b) a miniature model of something
(c) a manuscript on which more than one text has been written with the earlier writing incompletely erased and still visible
(d) the act of pulling and releasing a taut cord
n. impropriety
(a) an act of undue intimacy; indecorum; liberty
(b) laziness; slow-moving tree-dwelling mammal
(c) a piece of cloth that is left over after the rest has been used or sold; oddment
(d) remedy that alleviates pain without curing; alleviator
n. emendation
(a) a correction by emending
(b) jeweled pendant worn on a chain around the neck; lavalliere
(c) a morbid fear of being closed in a confined space
(d) a burst of deep loud hearty laughter |
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n. urchin
(a) a small float usually made of cork; cork; bobfloat
(b) poor and often mischievous city child
(c) a very wealthy or powerful businessman; business leader; king; magnate; mogul; power; top executive
(d) the range within which a voice can be heard; hearing
n. obituary
(a) a group of military officers who rule a country after seizing power
(b) a notice of someone's death; necrology
(c) a major division of a long poem
(d) the path followed by an object moving through space
n. rivulet
(a) the act of giving a false appearance; simulation; feigning
(b) prompt willingness; forwardness
(c) having temperamental and changeable moods
(d) a small stream; run; runnel; streamlet
n. vagrant
(a) an unrestrained expression of emotion; outburst; blowup
(b) a name given to a product or service; brand
(c) floater; vagabond
(d) a source of danger; peril; risk; endangerment
n. equestrian
(a) a man skilled in equitation; horseback rider
(b) back country
(c) an advocate of the extension of voting rights (especially to women)
(d) a stroke of ill fortune |
