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ballade
(definition)
n 1: a poem consisting of 3 stanzas and an envoy
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bard
(name)
(place)
(definition)
n 1: a lyric poet
2: an ornamental caparison for a horse
v 1: put a caparison on; "caparison the horses for the festive
occasion" [syn: caparison, bard, barde, dress up]
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card
(name)
(definition)
n 1: one of a set of small pieces of stiff paper marked in
various ways and used for playing games or for telling
fortunes; "he collected cards and traded them with the
other boys"
2: a card certifying the identity of the bearer; "he had to show
his card to get in" [syn: card, identity card]
3: a rectangular piece of stiff paper used to send messages (may
have printed greetings or pictures); "they sent us a card
from Miami"
4: thin cardboard, usually rectangular
5: a witty amusing person who makes jokes [syn: wag, wit,
card]
6: a sign posted in a public place as an advertisement; "a
poster advertised the coming attractions" [syn: poster,
posting, placard, notice, bill, card]
7: a printed or written greeting that is left to indicate that
you have visited [syn: calling card, visiting card,
card]
8: (golf) a record of scores (as in golf); "you have to turn in
your card to get a handicap" [syn: card, scorecard]
9: a list of dishes available at a restaurant; "the menu was in
French" [syn: menu, bill of fare, card, carte du
jour, carte]
10: (baseball) a list of batters in the order in which they will
bat; "the managers presented their cards to the umpire at
home plate" [syn: batting order, card, lineup]
11: a printed circuit that can be inserted into expansion slots
in a computer to increase the computer's capabilities [syn:
circuit board, circuit card, board, card, plug-in,
add-in]
v 1: separate the fibers of; "tease wool" [syn: tease, card]
2: ask someone for identification to determine whether he or she
is old enough to consume liquor; "I was carded when I tried
to buy a beer!"
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chard
(name)
(place)
(definition)
n 1: beet lacking swollen root; grown as a vegetable for its
edible leaves and stalks [syn: chard, Swiss chard,
spinach beet, leaf beet, chard plant, Beta vulgaris
cicla]
2: long succulent whitish stalks with large green leaves [syn:
chard, Swiss chard, spinach beet, leaf beet]
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clod
(definition)
n 1: a compact mass; "a ball of mud caught him on the shoulder"
[syn: ball, clod, glob, lump, clump, chunk]
2: an awkward stupid person [syn: lout, clod, stumblebum,
goon, oaf, lubber, lummox, lump, gawk]
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cod
(name)
(definition)
adv 1: collecting the charges upon delivery; "mail a package
C.O.D." [syn: C.O.D., COD, cash on delivery]
adj 1: payable by the recipient on delivery; "a collect call";
"the letter came collect"; "a COD parcel" [syn:
collect, cod]
n 1: the vessel that contains the seeds of a plant (not the
seeds themselves) [syn: pod, cod, seedcase]
2: lean white flesh of important North Atlantic food fish;
usually baked or poached [syn: cod, codfish]
3: major food fish of Arctic and cold-temperate waters [syn:
cod, codfish]
v 1: fool or hoax; "The immigrant was duped because he trusted
everyone"; "You can't fool me!" [syn: gull, dupe,
slang, befool, cod, fool, put on, take in, put
one over, put one across]
2: harass with persistent criticism or carping; "The children
teased the new teacher"; "Don't ride me so hard over my
failure"; "His fellow workers razzed him when he wore a
jacket and tie" [syn: tease, razz, rag, cod,
tantalize, tantalise, bait, taunt, twit, rally,
ride]
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flawed
(definition)
adj 1: having a blemish or flaw; "a flawed diamond"; "an
irregular pair of jeans" [syn: blemished, flawed]
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fraud
(definition)
n 1: intentional deception resulting in injury to another person
2: a person who makes deceitful pretenses [syn: imposter,
impostor, pretender, fake, faker, fraud, sham,
shammer, pseudo, pseud, role player]
3: something intended to deceive; deliberate trickery intended
to gain an advantage [syn: fraud, fraudulence, dupery,
hoax, humbug, put-on]
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god
(place)
(definition)
n 1: the supernatural being conceived as the perfect and
omnipotent and omniscient originator and ruler of the
universe; the object of worship in monotheistic religions
[syn: God, Supreme Being]
2: any supernatural being worshipped as controlling some part of
the world or some aspect of life or who is the
personification of a force [syn: deity, divinity, god,
immortal]
3: a man of such superior qualities that he seems like a deity
to other people; "he was a god among men"
4: a material effigy that is worshipped; "thou shalt not make
unto thee any graven image"; "money was his god" [syn:
idol, graven image, god]
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guard
(name)
(definition)
n 1: a person who keeps watch over something or someone
2: the person who plays that position on a football team; "the
left guard was injured on the play"
3: a device designed to prevent injury or accidents [syn:
guard, safety, safety device]
4: a posture of defence in boxing or fencing; "keep your guard
up"
5: the person who plays the position of guard on a basketball
team
6: a military unit serving to protect some place or person
7: a precautionary measure warding off impending danger or
damage or injury etc.; "he put an ice pack on the injury as a
precaution"; "an insurance policy is a good safeguard"; "we
let our guard down" [syn: precaution, safeguard, guard]
8: the duty of serving as a sentry; "he was on guard that night"
[syn: guard duty, guard, sentry duty, sentry go]
9: (American football) a position on the line of scrimmage;
"guards must be good blockers"
10: a position on a basketball team
v 1: to keep watch over; "there would be men guarding the
horses"
2: watch over or shield from danger or harm; protect; "guard my
possessions while I'm away" [syn: guard, ward]
3: protect against a challenge or attack; "Hold that position
behind the trees!"; "Hold the bridge against the enemy's
attacks" [syn: defend, guard, hold]
4: take precautions in order to avoid some unwanted consequence;
"guard against becoming too friendly with the staff"; "guard
against infection"
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hard
(place)
(definition)
adv 1: with effort or force or vigor; "the team played hard";
"worked hard all day"; "pressed hard on the lever"; "hit
the ball hard"; "slammed the door hard"
2: with firmness; "held hard to the railing" [syn: hard,
firmly]
3: earnestly or intently; "thought hard about it"; "stared hard
at the accused"
4: causing great damage or hardship; "industries hit hard by the
depression"; "she was severely affected by the bank's
failure" [syn: hard, severely]
5: slowly and with difficulty; "prejudices die hard"
6: indulging excessively; "he drank heavily" [syn: heavily,
intemperately, hard] [ant: lightly]
7: into a solid condition; "concrete that sets hard within a few
hours"
8: very near or close in space or time; "it stands hard by the
railroad tracks"; "they were hard on his heels"; "a strike
followed hard upon the plant's opening"
9: with pain or distress or bitterness; "he took the rejection
very hard"
10: to the full extent possible; all the way; "hard alee"; "the
ship went hard astern"; "swung the wheel hard left"
adj 1: not easy; requiring great physical or mental effort to
accomplish or comprehend or endure; "a difficult task";
"nesting places on the cliffs are difficult of access";
"difficult times"; "why is it so hard for you to keep a
secret?" [syn: difficult, hard] [ant: easy]
2: dispassionate; "took a hard look"; "a hard bargainer"; [ant:
soft]
3: resisting weight or pressure [ant: soft]
4: very strong or vigorous; "strong winds"; "a hard left to the
chin"; "a knockout punch"; "a severe blow" [syn: hard,
knockout, severe]
5: characterized by effort to the point of exhaustion;
especially physical effort; "worked their arduous way up the
mining valley"; "a grueling campaign"; "hard labor"; "heavy
work"; "heavy going"; "spent many laborious hours on the
project"; "set a punishing pace" [syn: arduous,
backbreaking, grueling, gruelling, hard, heavy,
laborious, operose, punishing, toilsome]
6: produced without vibration of the vocal cords; "unvoiced
consonants such as `p' and `k' and `s'" [syn: unvoiced,
voiceless, surd, hard] [ant: soft, sonant,
voiced]
7: (of light) transmitted directly from a pointed light source
[syn: hard, concentrated] [ant: diffuse, diffused,
soft]
8: (of speech sounds); produced with the back of the tongue
raised toward or touching the velum; "Russian distinguished
between hard consonants and palatalized or soft consonants"
[ant: soft]
9: given to excessive indulgence of bodily appetites especially
for intoxicating liquors; "a hard drinker" [syn:
intemperate, hard, heavy]
10: being distilled rather than fermented; having a high
alcoholic content; "hard liquor" [syn: hard, strong]
11: unfortunate or hard to bear; "had hard luck"; "a tough
break" [syn: hard, tough]
12: dried out; "hard dry rolls left over from the day before"
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lard
(definition)
n 1: soft white semisolid fat obtained by rendering the fatty
tissue of the hog
v 1: prepare or cook with lard; "lard meat"
2: add details to [syn: embroider, pad, lard, embellish,
aggrandize, aggrandise, blow up, dramatize,
dramatise]
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laud
(definition)
v 1: praise, glorify, or honor; "extol the virtues of one's
children"; "glorify one's spouse's cooking" [syn: laud,
extol, exalt, glorify, proclaim]
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maraud
(definition)
n 1: a sudden short attack [syn: foray, raid, maraud]
v 1: raid and rove in search of booty; "marauding rebels overran
the countryside"
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mod
(definition)
adj 1: relating to a recently developed fashion or style; "their
offices are in a modern skyscraper"; "tables in
modernistic designs"; [syn: mod, modern,
modernistic]
n 1: a British teenager or young adult in the 1960s; noted for
their clothes consciousness and opposition to the rockers
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nod
(definition)
n 1: a sign of assent or salutation or command
2: the act of nodding the head
v 1: express or signify by nodding; "He nodded his approval"
2: lower and raise the head, as to indicate assent or agreement
or confirmation; "The teacher nodded when the student gave
the right answer"
3: let the head fall forward through drowsiness; "The old man
was nodding in his chair"
4: sway gently back and forth, as in a nodding motion; "the
flowers were nodding in the breeze"
5: be almost asleep; "The old man sat nodding by the fireplace"
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odd
(name)
(definition)
adj 1: not divisible by two [syn: odd, uneven] [ant: even]
2: not easily explained; "it is odd that his name is never
mentioned"
3: an indefinite quantity more than that specified; "invited
30-odd guests"
4: beyond or deviating from the usual or expected; "a curious
hybrid accent"; "her speech has a funny twang"; "they have
some funny ideas about war"; "had an odd name"; "the peculiar
aromatic odor of cloves"; "something definitely queer about
this town"; "what a rum fellow"; "singular behavior" [syn:
curious, funny, odd, peculiar, queer, rum,
rummy, singular]
5: of the remaining member of a pair, of socks e.g. [syn: odd,
unmatched, unmated, unpaired]
6: not used up; "leftover meatloaf"; "she had a little money
left over so she went to a movie"; "some odd dollars left";
"saved the remaining sandwiches for supper"; "unexpended
provisions" [syn: leftover, left over(p), left(p),
odd, remaining, unexpended]
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petard
(definition)
n 1: an explosive device used to break down a gate or wall
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plod
(definition)
n 1: the act of walking with a slow heavy gait; "I could
recognize his plod anywhere" [syn: plodding, plod]
v 1: walk heavily and firmly, as when weary, or through mud;
"Mules plodded in a circle around a grindstone" [syn:
slog, footslog, plod, trudge, pad, tramp]
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pod
(definition)
n 1: the vessel that contains the seeds of a plant (not the
seeds themselves) [syn: pod, cod, seedcase]
2: a several-seeded dehiscent fruit as e.g. of a leguminous
plant [syn: pod, seedpod]
3: a group of aquatic mammals
4: a detachable container of fuel on an airplane [syn: pod,
fuel pod]
v 1: take something out of its shell or pod; "pod peas or beans"
2: produce pods, of plants
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prod
(definition)
n 1: a verbalization that encourages you to attempt something;
"the ceaseless prodding got on his nerves" [syn: goad,
goading, prod, prodding, urging, spur,
spurring]
2: a pointed instrument that is used to prod into a state of
motion [syn: prod, goad]
v 1: to push against gently; "She nudged my elbow when she saw
her friend enter the restaurant" [syn: nudge, poke at,
prod]
2: urge on; cause to act; "The other children egged the boy on,
but he did not want to throw the stone through the window"
[syn: prod, incite, egg on]
3: poke or thrust abruptly; "he jabbed his finger into her ribs"
[syn: jab, prod, stab, poke, dig]
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quad
(definition)
n 1: one of four children born at the same time from the same
pregnancy [syn: quadruplet, quad]
2: a muscle of the thigh that extends the leg [syn:
quadriceps, quadriceps femoris, musculus quadriceps
femoris, quad]
3: (printing) a block of type without a raised letter; used for
spacing between words or sentences [syn: quad, space]
4: a rectangular area surrounded on all sides by buildings [syn:
quad, quadrangle]
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rod
(name)
(definition)
n 1: a long thin implement made of metal or wood
2: any rod-shaped bacterium
3: a linear measure of 16.5 feet [syn: perch, rod, pole]
4: a square rod of land [syn: perch, rod, pole]
5: a visual receptor cell that is sensitive to dim light [syn:
rod, rod cell, retinal rod]
6: a gangster's pistol [syn: gat, rod]
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roughshod
(definition)
adj 1: (of a horse) having horseshoes with projecting nails to
prevent slipping
2: (of persons or their actions) able or disposed to inflict
pain or suffering; "a barbarous crime"; "brutal beatings";
"cruel tortures"; "Stalin's roughshod treatment of the
kulaks"; "a savage slap"; "vicious kicks" [syn: barbarous,
brutal, cruel, fell, roughshod, savage, vicious]
3: unjustly domineering; "incensed at the government's heavy-
handed economic policies"; "a manager who rode roughshod over
all opposition" [syn: heavy-handed, roughshod]
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scrod
(definition)
n 1: flesh of young Atlantic cod weighing up to 2 pounds; also
young haddock and pollock; often broiled [syn: schrod,
scrod]
2: young Atlantic cod or haddock especially one split and boned
for cooking [syn: scrod, schrod]
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shard
(name)
(definition)
n 1: a broken piece of a brittle artifact [syn: shard,
sherd, fragment]
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shod
(definition)
adj 1: wearing footgear [syn: shod, shodden, shoed] [ant:
unshod, unshoed]
2: used of certain religious orders who wear shoes [syn:
calced, shod] [ant: discalceate, discalced, unshod]
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sod
(definition)
n 1: surface layer of ground containing a mat of grass and grass
roots [syn: turf, sod, sward, greensward]
2: an enzyme that catalyzes the conversion of superoxide into
hydrogen peroxide and oxygen; "oxygen free radicals are
normally removed in our bodies by the superoxide dismutase
enzymes" [syn: superoxide dismutase, SOD]
3: someone who engages in anal copulation (especially a male who
engages in anal copulation with another male) [syn:
sodomite, sodomist, sod, bugger]
4: an informal British term for a youth or man; "the poor sod
couldn't even buy a drink"
v 1: cover with sod
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squad
(definition)
n 1: a smallest army unit
2: a cooperative unit (especially in sports) [syn: team,
squad]
3: a small squad of policemen trained to deal with a particular
kind of crime [syn: police squad, squad]
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wad
(definition)
n 1: a small mass of soft material; "he used a wad of cotton to
wipe the counter"
2: (often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent;
"a batch of letters"; "a deal of trouble"; "a lot of money";
"he made a mint on the stock market"; "see the rest of the
winners in our huge passel of photos"; "it must have cost
plenty"; "a slew of journalists"; "a wad of money" [syn:
batch, deal, flock, good deal, great deal,
hatful, heap, lot, mass, mess, mickle, mint,
mountain, muckle, passel, peck, pile, plenty,
pot, quite a little, raft, sight, slew, spate,
stack, tidy sum, wad]
3: a wad of something chewable as tobacco [syn: chew, chaw,
cud, quid, plug, wad]
v 1: compress into a wad; "wad paper into the box" [syn: pack,
bundle, wad, compact]
2: crowd or pack to capacity; "the theater was jampacked" [syn:
jam, jampack, ram, chock up, cram, wad]
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yard
(name)
(definition)
n 1: a unit of length equal to 3 feet; defined as 91.44
centimeters; originally taken to be the average length of a
stride [syn: yard, pace]
2: the enclosed land around a house or other building; "it was a
small house with almost no yard" [syn: yard, grounds,
curtilage]
3: a tract of land enclosed for particular activities (sometimes
paved and usually associated with buildings); "they opened a
repair yard on the edge of town"
4: the cardinal number that is the product of 10 and 100 [syn:
thousand, one thousand, 1000, M, K, chiliad, G,
grand, thou, yard]
5: a unit of volume (as for sand or gravel) [syn: cubic yard,
yard]
6: a tract of land where logs are accumulated
7: an area having a network of railway tracks and sidings for
storage and maintenance of cars and engines [syn: yard,
railway yard, railyard]
8: a long horizontal spar tapered at the end and used to support
and spread a square sail or lateen
9: an enclosure for animals (as chicken or livestock)
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tod
(name)
(definition)
adj 1: alone and on your own; "don't just sit there on your tod"
n 1: a unit of weight for wool equal to about 28 pounds
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todd
(name)
(definition)
n 1: Scottish chemist noted for his research into the structure
of nucleic acids (born in 1907) [syn: Todd, Sir
Alexander Robertus Todd, Lord Todd]
2: fictional character in a play by George Pitt; a barber who
murdered his customers [syn: Todd, Sweeney Todd]
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mossad
(definition)
n 1: the Israeli foreign intelligence agency; "the primary focus
of the Mossad is on Arab nations"
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pernod
(definition)
n 1: (registered trademark) a liqueur flavored with anise
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riyadh
(place)
(definition)
n 1: joint capital (with Mecca) of Saudi Arabia located in the
central oasis; largest city in Saudi Arabia [syn: Riyadh,
capital of Saudi Arabia]
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sade
(name)
(place)
(definition)
n 1: French soldier and writer whose descriptions of sexual
perversion gave rise to the term `sadism' (1740-1814) [syn:
Sade, de Sade, Comte Donatien Alphonse Francois de
Sade, Marquis de Sade]
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briard
(definition)
n 1: old French breed of large strong usually black dogs having
a long tail and long wavy and slightly stiff coat
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nard
(definition)
n 1: an aromatic ointment used in antiquity [syn: nard,
spikenard]
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sard
(place)
(definition)
n 1: a deep orange-red variety of chalcedony [syn: sard,
sardine, sardius]
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trod
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baade
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brod
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codd
(name)
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dodd
(name)
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glod
(place)
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hodde
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abad
(name)
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assad
(name)
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awad
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ayyad
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bershad
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riad
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riyad
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pard