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albino
(place)
0
n 1: a person with congenital albinism: white hair and milky
skin; eyes are usually pink
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buffalo
(place)
0
n 1: large shaggy-haired brown bison of North American plains
[syn: American bison, American buffalo, buffalo,
Bison bison]
2: a city on Lake Erie in western New York (near Niagara Falls)
3: meat from an American bison
4: any of several Old World animals resembling oxen including,
e.g., water buffalo; Cape buffalo [syn: Old World buffalo,
buffalo]
v 1: intimidate or overawe
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coco
(place)
0
n 1: tall palm tree bearing coconuts as fruits; widely planted
throughout the tropics [syn: coconut, coconut palm,
coco palm, coco, cocoa palm, coconut tree, Cocos
nucifera]
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dado
(place)
0
n 1: panel forming the lower part of an interior wall when it is
finished differently from the rest of the wall [syn:
wainscot, dado]
2: the section of a pedestal between the base and the surbase
3: a rectangular groove cut into a board so that another piece
can fit into it
v 1: provide with a dado; "The owners wanted to dado their
dining room"
2: cut a dado into or fit into a dado
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ho
(place)
0
n 1: a trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group;
occurs together with yttrium; forms highly magnetic
compounds [syn: holmium, Ho, atomic number 67]
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kilo
(place)
0
n 1: one thousand grams; the basic unit of mass adopted under
the Systeme International d'Unites; "a kilogram is
approximately 2.2 pounds" [syn: kilogram, kg, kilo]
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maillot
(place)
0
n 1: a woman's one-piece bathing suit [syn: maillot, tank
suit]
2: tights for dancers or gymnasts
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metro
(place)
0
n 1: an electric railway operating below the surface of the
ground (usually in a city); "in Paris the subway system is
called the `metro' and in London it is called the `tube' or
the `underground'" [syn: metro, tube, underground,
subway system, subway]
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oxbow
(place)
0
n 1: the land inside an oxbow bend in a river
2: a U-shaped curve in a stream
3: a wooden framework bent in the shape of a U; its upper ends
are attached to the horizontal yoke and the loop goes around
the neck of an ox
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pinto
(place)
0
n 1: a spotted or calico horse or pony
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presto
(place)
0
adv 1: suddenly; "Presto! begone! 'tis here again"- Swift
2: at a very fast tempo (faster than allegro)
adj 1: (of tempo) very fast
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rainbow
(name)
(place)
0
n 1: an arc of colored light in the sky caused by refraction of
the sun's rays by rain
2: an illusory hope; "chasing rainbows"
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snow
(name)
(place)
0
n 1: precipitation falling from clouds in the form of ice
crystals [syn: snow, snowfall]
2: a layer of snowflakes (white crystals of frozen water)
covering the ground
3: English writer of novels about moral dilemmas in academe
(1905-1980) [syn: Snow, C. P. Snow, Charles Percy Snow,
Baron Snow of Leicester]
4: street names for cocaine [syn: coke, blow, nose candy,
snow, C]
v 1: fall as snow; "It was snowing all night"
2: conceal one's true motives from especially by elaborately
feigning good intentions so as to gain an end; "He bamboozled
his professors into thinking that he knew the subject well"
[syn: bamboozle, snow, hoodwink, pull the wool over
someone's eyes, lead by the nose, play false]
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solo
(place)
0
adv 1: without anybody else or anything else; "the child stayed
home alone"; "the pillar stood alone, supporting
nothing"; "he flew solo" [syn: alone, solo,
unaccompanied]
adj 1: composed or performed by a single voice or instrument; "a
passage for solo clarinet"
n 1: any activity that is performed alone without assistance
2: a musical composition for one voice or instrument (with or
without accompaniment)
3: a flight in which the aircraft pilot is unaccompanied
v 1: fly alone, without a co-pilot or passengers
2: perform a piece written for a single instrument
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stow
(name)
(place)
0
v 1: fill by packing tightly; "stow the cart"
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willow
(name)
(place)
0
n 1: any of numerous deciduous trees and shrubs of the genus
Salix [syn: willow, willow tree]
2: a textile machine having a system of revolving spikes for
opening and cleaning raw textile fibers
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au
(place)
0
n 1: a soft yellow malleable ductile (trivalent and univalent)
metallic element; occurs mainly as nuggets in rocks and
alluvial deposits; does not react with most chemicals but
is attacked by chlorine and aqua regia [syn: gold, Au,
atomic number 79]
2: a unit of length used for distances within the solar system;
equal to the mean distance between the Earth and the Sun
(approximately 93 million miles or 150 million kilometers)
[syn: Astronomical Unit, AU]
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mo
(place)
0
n 1: an indefinitely short time; "wait just a moment"; "in a
mo"; "it only takes a minute"; "in just a bit" [syn:
moment, mo, minute, second, bit]
2: a polyvalent metallic element that resembles chromium and
tungsten in its properties; used to strengthen and harden
steel [syn: molybdenum, Mo, atomic number 42]
3: a midwestern state in central United States; a border state
during the American Civil War, Missouri was admitted to the
Confederacy without actually seceding from the Union [syn:
Missouri, Show Me State, MO]
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po
(name)
(place)
0
n 1: a radioactive metallic element that is similar to tellurium
and bismuth; occurs in uranium ores but can be produced by
bombarding bismuth with neutrons in a nuclear reactor [syn:
polonium, Po, atomic number 84]
2: a noncommissioned officer in the Navy or Coast Guard with a
rank comparable to sergeant in the Army [syn: petty
officer, PO, P.O.]
3: a European river; flows into the Adriatic Sea [syn: Po, Po
River]
4: an independent agency of the federal government responsible
for mail delivery (and sometimes telecommunications) between
individuals and businesses in the United States [syn: United
States Post Office, US Post Office, Post Office, PO]
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rho
(place)
0
n 1: the 17th letter of the Greek alphabet
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ro
(place)
0
n 1: an artificial language for international use that rejects
all existing words and is based instead on an abstract
analysis of ideas
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stowe
(name)
(place)
0
n 1: United States writer of a novel about slavery that advanced
the abolitionists' cause (1811-1896) [syn: Stowe,
Harriet Beecher Stowe, Harriet Elizabeth Beecher Stowe]
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bordeaux
(place)
0
n 1: a port city in southwestern France; a major center of the
wine trade
2: any of several red or white wines produced around Bordeaux,
France or wines resembling them [syn: Bordeaux, Bordeaux
wine]
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monroe
(name)
(place)
0
n 1: United States film actress noted for sex appeal (1926-1962)
[syn: Monroe, Marilyn Monroe, Norma Jean Baker]
2: 5th President of the United States; author of the Monroe
Doctrine (1758-1831) [syn: Monroe, James Monroe,
President Monroe]
3: a town of southeast Michigan on Lake Erie
4: a town in north central Louisiana
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thoreau
(place)
0
n 1: United States writer and social critic (1817-1862) [syn:
Thoreau, Henry David Thoreau]
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chicago
(place)
0
n 1: largest city in Illinois; a bustling Great Lakes port that
extends 26 miles along the southwestern shoreline of Lake
Michigan [syn: Chicago, Windy City]
2: a gambling card game in which chips are placed on the ace and
king and queen and jack of separate suits (taken from a
separate deck); a player plays the lowest card of a suit in
his hand and successively higher cards are played until the
sequence stops; the player who plays a card matching one in
the layout wins all the chips on that card [syn: Michigan,
Chicago, Newmarket, boodle, stops]
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chico
(place)
0
n 1: United States comedian; one of four brothers who made
motion pictures together (1891-1961) [syn: Marx, Leonard
Marx, Chico]
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alamo
(place)
0
n 1: a siege and massacre at a mission in San Antonio in 1836;
Mexican forces under Santa Anna besieged and massacred
American rebels who were fighting to make Texas independent
of Mexico
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arapaho
(place)
0
n 1: a member of a tribe of Plains Indians formerly inhabiting
eastern Colorado and Wyoming (now living in Oklahoma and
Wyoming) [syn: Arapaho, Arapahoe]
2: the Algonquian language spoken by the Arapaho [syn:
Arapaho, Arapahoe]
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bo
(name)
(place)
0
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boe
(place)
0
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bro
(place)
0
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cho
(place)
0
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kyo
(place)
0
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mau
(place)
0
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meaux
(place)
0
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moe
(place)
0
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noe
(name)
(place)
0
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vo
(place)
0
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yoe
(place)
0
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biscoe
(place)
0
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cabo
(place)
0
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davao
(place)
0
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enlow
(place)
0
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margaux
(place)
0
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thurnau
(place)
0