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n 1: the hair growing on the lower part of a man's face [syn: beard, face fungus, whiskers] 2: a tuft or growth of hairs or bristles on certain plants such as iris or grasses 3: a person who diverts suspicion from someone (especially a woman who accompanies a male homosexual in order to conceal his homosexuality) 4: hairy growth on or near the face of certain mammals 5: tuft of strong filaments by which e.g. a mussel makes itself fast to a fixed surface [syn: byssus, beard] v 1: go along the rim, like a beard around the chin; "Houses bearded the top of the heights"

n 1: warm-blooded egg-laying vertebrates characterized by feathers and forelimbs modified as wings 2: the flesh of a bird or fowl (wild or domestic) used as food [syn: bird, fowl] 3: informal terms for a (young) woman [syn: dame, doll, wench, skirt, chick, bird] 4: a cry or noise made to express displeasure or contempt [syn: boo, hoot, Bronx cheer, hiss, raspberry, razzing, razz, snort, bird] 5: badminton equipment consisting of a ball of cork or rubber with a crown of feathers [syn: shuttlecock, bird, birdie, shuttle] v 1: watch and study birds in their natural habitat [syn: bird, birdwatch]

adj 1: rid of objects or obstructions such as e.g. trees and brush; "cleared land"; "cleared streets free of fallen trees and debris"; "a cleared passage through the underbrush"; "played poker on the cleared dining room table" [ant: uncleared] 2: freed from any question of guilt; "is absolved from all blame"; "was now clear of the charge of cowardice"; "his official honor is vindicated" [syn: absolved, clear, cleared, exculpated, exonerated, vindicated]

n 1: a coagulated liquid resembling milk curd; "bean curd"; "lemon curd" 2: coagulated milk; used to make cheese; "Little Miss Muffet sat on a tuffet eating some curds and whey"

adj 1: worn or shabby from overuse or (of pages) from having corners turned down; "a somewhat dog-eared duke...a bit run down"-Clifton Fadiman; "an old book with dog-eared pages" [syn: dog-eared, eared] 2: having ears (or appendages resembling ears) or having ears of a specified kind; often used in combination [ant: earless]

adj 1: equipped with or connected by gears or having gears engaged [ant: ungeared]

v 1: prepare oneself for a military confrontation; "The U.S. is girding for a conflict in the Middle East"; "troops are building up on the Iraqi border" [syn: arm, build up, fortify, gird] [ant: demilitarise, demilitarize, disarm] 2: put a girdle on or around; "gird your loins" [syn: girdle, gird] 3: bind with something round or circular [syn: gird, encircle]

adj 1: detected or perceived by the sense of hearing; "a conversation heard through the wall"

n 1: a group of cattle or sheep or other domestic mammals all of the same kind that are herded by humans 2: a group of wild mammals of one species that remain together: antelope or elephants or seals or whales or zebra 3: a crowd especially of ordinary or undistinguished persons or things; "his brilliance raised him above the ruck"; "the children resembled a fairy herd" [syn: ruck, herd] v 1: cause to herd, drive, or crowd together; "We herded the children into a spare classroom" [syn: herd, crowd] 2: move together, like a herd 3: keep, move, or drive animals; "Who will be herding the cattle when the cowboy dies?"

n 1: a landowner

adj 1: profoundly honored; "revered holy men" [syn: august, revered, venerable]

adj 1: made afraid; "the frightened child cowered in the corner"; "too shocked and scared to move" [syn: frightened, scared]

adj 1: having the surface burned quickly with intense heat; "the seared meat is then covered with hot liquid for braising"

adj 1: having the hair or wool cut or clipped off as if with shears or clippers; "picked up the baby's shorn curls from the floor"; "naked as a sheared sheep" [syn: sheared, shorn] [ant: unsheared, unshorn] 2: (used especially of fur or wool) shaped or finished by cutting or trimming to a uniform length; "a coat of sheared lamb"

adj 1: 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] n 1: a consonant produced without sound from the vocal cords [syn: surd, voiceless consonant]

adv 1: in the third place; "third we must consider unemployment" [syn: third, thirdly] adj 1: coming next after the second and just before the fourth in position [syn: third, 3rd, tertiary] n 1: one of three equal parts of a divisible whole; "it contains approximately a third of the minimum daily requirement" [syn: one-third, third, tierce] 2: the fielding position of the player on a baseball team who is stationed near the third of the bases in the infield (counting counterclockwise from home plate); "he is playing third" [syn: third base, third] 3: following the second position in an ordering or series; "a distant third"; "he answered the first question willingly, the second reluctantly, and the third with resentment" 4: the musical interval between one note and another three notes away from it; "a simple harmony written in major thirds" 5: the third from the lowest forward ratio gear in the gear box of a motor vehicle; "you shouldn't try to start in third gear" [syn: third gear, third] 6: the base that must be touched third by a base runner in baseball; "he was cut down on a close play at third" [syn: third base, third]

adj 1: not announced or openly acknowledged; "fighting an undeclared war" [ant: declared]

adj 1: not damaged or diminished in any respect; "his speech remained unimpaired" [ant: impaired]

adj 1: of the remaining member of a pair, of socks e.g. [syn: odd, unmatched, unmated, unpaired]

adj 1: without preparation; not prepared for; "unprepared remarks"; "the shock was unprepared"; "our treaty makers approached their immensely difficult problems unprepared"- R.E.Danielson [ant: prepared]

adj 1: not shared [ant: shared]

adj 1: suggesting the operation of supernatural influences; "an eldritch screech"; "the three weird sisters"; "stumps...had uncanny shapes as of monstrous creatures"- John Galsworthy; "an unearthly light"; "he could hear the unearthly scream of some curlew piercing the din"- Henry Kingsley [syn: eldritch, weird, uncanny, unearthly] 2: strikingly odd or unusual; "some trick of the moonlight; some weird effect of shadow"- Bram Stoker n 1: fate personified; any one of the three Weird Sisters [syn: Wyrd, Weird]

n 1: a member of a largely pastoral Islamic people who live in Kurdistan; the largest ethnic group without their own state

n 1: an insignificant student who is ridiculed as being affected or boringly studious [syn: swot, grind, nerd, wonk, dweeb] 2: an intelligent but single-minded expert in a particular technical field or profession

n 1: a broken piece of a brittle artifact [syn: shard, sherd, fragment]