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n 1: a Japanese martial art employing principles similar to judo

n 1: a cudgel used to give someone a beating on the soles of the feet 2: a form of torture in which the soles of the feet are beaten with whips or cudgels [syn: bastinado, falanga] v 1: beat somebody on the soles of the feet

n 1: traditional code of the Japanese samurai which stressed courage and loyalty and self-discipline and simple living

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

n 1: (psychoanalysis) a Freudian term for sexual urge or desire

n 1: a recreational facility including a swimming pool for water sports

n 1: a localized and violently destructive windstorm occurring over land characterized by a funnel-shaped cloud extending toward the ground [syn: tornado, twister] 2: a purified and potent form of cocaine that is smoked rather than snorted; highly addictive [syn: crack, crack cocaine, tornado]

n 1: a professional killer who uses a gun [syn: gunman, gunslinger, hired gun, gun, gun for hire, triggerman, hit man, hitman, torpedo, shooter] 2: a large sandwich made of a long crusty roll split lengthwise and filled with meats and cheese (and tomato and onion and lettuce and condiments); different names are used in different sections of the United States [syn: bomber, grinder, hero, hero sandwich, hoagie, hoagy, Cuban sandwich, Italian sandwich, poor boy, sub, submarine, submarine sandwich, torpedo, wedge, zep] 3: an explosive device that is set off in an oil well (or a gas well) to start or to increase the flow of oil (or gas) 4: a small firework that consists of a percussion cap and some gravel wrapped in paper; explodes when thrown forcefully against a hard surface 5: a small explosive device that is placed on a railroad track and fires when a train runs over it; the sound of the explosion warns the engineer of danger ahead 6: armament consisting of a long cylindrical self-propelled underwater projectile that detonates on contact with a target 7: any sluggish bottom-dwelling ray of the order Torpediniformes having a rounded body and electric organs on each side of the head capable of emitting strong electric discharges [syn: electric ray, crampfish, numbfish, torpedo] v 1: attack or hit with torpedoes

n 1: semiformal evening dress for men [syn: dinner jacket, tux, tuxedo, black tie]

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]

n 1: a city in southern Texas on the Rio Grande

n 1: a form of torture in which the hands are tied behind a person's back and they are lifted off the ground by a rope tied to their wrists, then allowed to drop until their fall is checked with a jerk by the rope [syn: strappado, strapado]

n 1: an inferior dark diamond used in industry for drilling and polishing [syn: carbonado, black diamond] 2: a piece of meat (or fish) that has been scored and broiled

n 1: a city in northwestern Spain near the Cantabrian Mountains

n 1: a member of a west African people living in the tropical forest region of southern Nigeria 2: the capital and largest city of Japan; the economic and cultural center of Japan [syn: Tokyo, Tokio, Yeddo, Yedo, Edo, Japanese capital, capital of Japan]

n 1: a flour tortilla folded around a filling

n 1: (Roman mythology) a princess of Tyre who was the founder and queen of Carthage; Virgil tells of her suicide when she was abandoned by Aeneas

n 1: the second largest of the four main islands of Japan; to the north of Honshu [syn: Hokkaido, Ezo, Yezo]

n 1: an artificial language that is a revision and simplification of Esperanto

n 1: a black-tipped plug clogging a pore of the skin [syn: blackhead, comedo]

n 1: an industrial city in northwestern Ohio on Lake Erie 2: a city in central Spain on the Tagus river; famous for steel and swords since the first century

n 1: the ratio of reflected to incident light [syn: albedo, reflective power]

n 1: typical shipworm