Words that rhyme with ancon

n 1: (Gnosticism) a divine power or nature emanating from the Supreme Being and playing various roles in the operation of the universe [syn: eon, aeon] 2: the longest division of geological time [syn: eon, aeon] 3: an immeasurably long period of time; "oh, that happened eons ago" [syn: eon, aeon]

n 1: an associate degree in nursing [syn: Associate in Nursing, AN]

v 1: cause to become awake or conscious; "He was roused by the drunken men in the street"; "Please wake me at 6 AM." [syn: awaken, wake, waken, rouse, wake up, arouse] [ant: cause to sleep] 2: stop sleeping; "She woke up to the sound of the alarm clock" [syn: wake up, awake, arouse, awaken, wake, come alive, waken] [ant: dope off, doze off, drift off, drop off, drowse off, fall asleep, flake out, nod off] 3: make aware; "They were awakened to the sad facts"

adj 1: having or showing a feeling of mixed reverence and respect and wonder and dread; "stood in awed silence before the shrine"; "in grim despair and awestruck wonder" [syn: awed, awestruck, awestricken] [ant: unawed]

n 1: back and sides of a hog salted and dried or smoked; usually sliced thin and fried 2: English scientist and Franciscan monk who stressed the importance of experimentation; first showed that air is required for combustion and first used lenses to correct vision (1220-1292) [syn: Bacon, Roger Bacon] 3: English statesman and philosopher; precursor of British empiricism; advocated inductive reasoning (1561-1626) [syn: Bacon, Francis Bacon, Sir Francis Bacon, Baron Verulam, 1st Baron Verulam, Viscount St. Albans]

n 1: a decree that prohibits something [syn: prohibition, ban, proscription] 2: 100 bani equal 1 leu in Moldova 3: 100 bani equal 1 leu in Romania 4: an official prohibition or edict against something [syn: ban, banning, forbiddance, forbidding] 5: a bachelor's degree in nursing [syn: Bachelor of Arts in Nursing, BAN] v 1: forbid the public distribution of ( a movie or a newspaper) [syn: ban, censor] 2: prohibit especially by legal means or social pressure; "Smoking is banned in this building" 3: ban from a place of residence, as for punishment [syn: banish, ban] 4: expel from a community or group [syn: banish, ban, ostracize, ostracise, shun, cast out, blackball]

n 1: a tower that is part of a defensive structure (such as a castle) [syn: barbican, barbacan]

v 1: signal with the hands or nod; "She waved to her friends"; "He waved his hand hospitably" [syn: beckon, wave] 2: appear inviting; "The shop window decorations beckoned" 3: summon with a wave, nod, or some other gesture

adj 1: (of clothing) custom-made [syn: bespoke, bespoken, made-to-order, tailored, tailor-made] 2: pledged to be married; "the engaged couple" [syn: bespoken, betrothed]

v 1: be a signal for or a symptom of; "These symptoms indicate a serious illness"; "Her behavior points to a severe neurosis"; "The economic indicators signal that the euro is undervalued" [syn: bespeak, betoken, indicate, point, signal] 2: indicate by signs; "These signs bode bad news" [syn: bode, portend, auspicate, prognosticate, omen, presage, betoken, foreshadow, augur, foretell, prefigure, forecast, predict]

v 1: make or become black; "The smoke blackened the ceiling"; "The ceiling blackened" [syn: blacken, melanize, melanise, nigrify, black] [ant: white, whiten] 2: burn slightly and superficially so as to affect color; "The cook blackened the chicken breast"; "The fire charred the ceiling above the mantelpiece"; "the flames scorched the ceiling" [syn: char, blacken, sear, scorch]

n 1: fern of southeastern Asia; not hardy in cold temperate regions [syn: bracken, Pteridium esculentum] 2: large coarse fern often several feet high; essentially weed ferns; cosmopolitan [syn: bracken, pasture brake, brake, Pteridium aquilinum]

n 1: broken husks of the seeds of cereal grains that are separated from the flour by sifting 2: food prepared from the husks of cereal grains

adj 1: physically and forcibly separated into pieces or cracked or split; "a broken mirror"; "a broken tooth"; "a broken leg"; "his neck is broken" [ant: unbroken] 2: not continuous in space, time, or sequence or varying abruptly; "broken lines of defense"; "a broken cable transmission"; "broken sleep"; "tear off the stub above the broken line"; "a broken note"; "broken sobs" [ant: unbroken] 3: subdued or brought low in condition or status; "brought low"; "a broken man"; "his broken spirit" [syn: broken, crushed, humbled, humiliated, low] 4: (especially of promises or contracts) having been violated or disregarded; "broken (or unkept) promises"; "broken contracts" [syn: broken, unkept] [ant: kept, unbroken] 5: tamed or trained to obey; "a horse broken to the saddle"; "this old nag is well broken in" [syn: broken, broken in] 6: topographically very uneven; "broken terrain"; "rugged ground" [syn: broken, rugged] 7: imperfectly spoken or written; "broken English" 8: thrown into a state of disarray or confusion; "troops fleeing in broken ranks"; "a confused mass of papers on the desk"; "the small disordered room"; "with everything so upset" [syn: broken, confused, disordered, upset] 9: weakened and infirm; "broken health resulting from alcoholism" 10: destroyed financially; "the broken fortunes of the family" [syn: broken, wiped out(p), impoverished] 11: out of working order (`busted' is an informal substitute for `broken'); "a broken washing machine"; "the coke machine is broken"; "the coke machine is busted" [syn: broken, busted] 12: discontinuous; "broken clouds"; "broken sunshine" 13: lacking a part or parts; "a broken set of encyclopedia"

n 1: airtight sealed metal container for food or drink or paint etc. [syn: can, tin, tin can] 2: the quantity contained in a can [syn: can, canful] 3: a buoy with a round bottom and conical top [syn: can, can buoy] 4: the fleshy part of the human body that you sit on; "he deserves a good kick in the butt"; "are you going to sit on your fanny and do nothing?" [syn: buttocks, nates, arse, butt, backside, bum, buns, can, fundament, hindquarters, hind end, keister, posterior, prat, rear, rear end, rump, stern, seat, tail, tail end, tooshie, tush, bottom, behind, derriere, fanny, ass] 5: a plumbing fixture for defecation and urination [syn: toilet, can, commode, crapper, pot, potty, stool, throne] 6: a room or building equipped with one or more toilets [syn: toilet, lavatory, lav, can, john, privy, bathroom] v 1: preserve in a can or tin; "tinned foods are not very tasty" [syn: can, tin, put up] 2: terminate the employment of; discharge from an office or position; "The boss fired his secretary today"; "The company terminated 25% of its workers" [syn: displace, fire, give notice, can, dismiss, give the axe, send away, sack, force out, give the sack, terminate] [ant: employ, engage, hire]

n 1: hypothetical remedy for all ills or diseases; once sought by the alchemists [syn: panacea, nostrum, catholicon, cure-all]

adj 1: easily frightened [syn: chicken, chickenhearted, lily-livered, white-livered, yellow, yellow- bellied] n 1: the flesh of a chicken used for food [syn: chicken, poulet, volaille] 2: a domestic fowl bred for flesh or eggs; believed to have been developed from the red jungle fowl [syn: chicken, Gallus gallus] 3: a person who lacks confidence, is irresolute and wishy-washy [syn: wimp, chicken, crybaby] 4: a foolhardy competition; a dangerous activity that is continued until one competitor becomes afraid and stops

n 1: group of people related by blood or marriage [syn: kin, kin group, kinship group, kindred, clan, tribe]

adv 1: in opposition to a proposition, opinion, etc.; "much was written pro and con" [ant: pro] n 1: an argument opposed to a proposal [ant: pro] 2: a person serving a sentence in a jail or prison [syn: convict, con, inmate, yard bird, yardbird] 3: a swindle in which you cheat at gambling or persuade a person to buy worthless property [syn: bunco, bunco game, bunko, bunko game, con, confidence trick, confidence game, con game, gyp, hustle, sting, flimflam] v 1: deprive of by deceit; "He swindled me out of my inheritance"; "She defrauded the customers who trusted her"; "the cashier gypped me when he gave me too little change" [syn: victimize, swindle, rook, goldbrick, nobble, diddle, bunco, defraud, scam, mulct, gyp, gip, hornswoggle, short-change, con] 2: commit to memory; learn by heart; "Have you memorized your lines for the play yet?" [syn: memorize, memorise, con, learn]

adj 1: of or relating to or resembling the Cyclops; "Cyclopean eye"

v 1: become dark or darker; "The sky darkened" [ant: lighten, lighten up] 2: tarnish or stain; "a scandal that darkened the family's good name" 3: make dark or darker; "darken a room" [ant: brighten, lighten, lighten up]

adj 1: given to or marked by the consumption of alcohol; "a bibulous fellow"; "a bibulous evening"; "his boozy drinking companions"; "thick boozy singing"; "a drunken binge"; "two drunken gentlemen holding each other up"; "sottish behavior" [syn: bibulous, boozy, drunken, sottish]

n 1: the longest division of geological time [syn: eon, aeon] 2: an immeasurably long period of time; "oh, that happened eons ago" [syn: eon, aeon] 3: (Gnosticism) a divine power or nature emanating from the Supreme Being and playing various roles in the operation of the universe [syn: eon, aeon]

n 1: diurnal birds of prey having long pointed powerful wings adapted for swift flight v 1: hunt with falcons; "The tribes like to falcon in the desert"

n 1: a device for creating a current of air by movement of a surface or surfaces 2: an enthusiastic devotee of sports [syn: sports fan, fan, rooter] 3: an ardent follower and admirer [syn: fan, buff, devotee, lover] v 1: strike out (a batter), (of a pitcher) 2: make (an emotion) fiercer; "fan hatred" 3: agitate the air 4: separate the chaff from by using air currents; "She stood there winnowing chaff all day in the field" [syn: winnow, fan]

n 1: open pastry filled with fruit or custard

n 1: an event that is experienced as indicating important things to come; "he hoped it was an augury"; "it was a sign from God" [syn: augury, sign, foretoken, preindication]

n 1: large and rare Arctic falcon having white and dark color phases [syn: gyrfalcon, gerfalcon, Falco rusticolus]

adj 1: located in a dismal or remote area; desolate; "a desert island"; "a godforsaken wilderness crossroads"; "a wild stretch of land"; "waste places" [syn: godforsaken, waste, wild]

n 1: large and rare Arctic falcon having white and dark color phases [syn: gyrfalcon, gerfalcon, Falco rusticolus]

v 1: listen; used mostly in the imperative [syn: hark, harken, hearken]

adj 1: full of sorrow [syn: brokenhearted, heartbroken, heartsick]

n 1: a tuba that coils over the shoulder of the musician [syn: helicon, bombardon]

n 1: a severe tropical cyclone usually with heavy rains and winds moving a 73-136 knots (12 on the Beaufort scale)

n 1: (computer science) a graphic symbol (usually a simple picture) that denotes a program or a command or a data file or a concept in a graphical user interface 2: a visual representation (of an object or scene or person or abstraction) produced on a surface; "they showed us the pictures of their wedding"; "a movie is a series of images projected so rapidly that the eye integrates them" [syn: picture, image, icon, ikon] 3: a conventional religious painting in oil on a small wooden panel; venerated in the Eastern Church [syn: icon, ikon]

n 1: a language user's knowledge of words [syn: vocabulary, lexicon, mental lexicon] 2: a reference book containing an alphabetical list of words with information about them [syn: dictionary, lexicon]

n 1: any of several eruptive skin diseases characterized by hard thick lesions grouped together and resembling lichens growing on rocks 2: any thallophytic plant of the division Lichenes; occur as crusty patches or bushy growths on tree trunks or rocks or bare ground etc.

n 1: the right to take another's property if an obligation is not discharged 2: a large dark-red oval organ on the left side of the body between the stomach and the diaphragm; produces cells involved in immune responses [syn: spleen, lien]

v 1: consider or describe as similar, equal, or analogous; "We can compare the Han dynasty to the Romans"; "You cannot equate success in financial matters with greed" [syn: compare, liken, equate]

n 1: an adult person who is male (as opposed to a woman); "there were two women and six men on the bus" [syn: man, adult male] [ant: adult female, woman] 2: someone who serves in the armed forces; a member of a military force; "two men stood sentry duty" [syn: serviceman, military man, man, military personnel] [ant: civilian] 3: the generic use of the word to refer to any human being; "it was every man for himself" 4: any living or extinct member of the family Hominidae characterized by superior intelligence, articulate speech, and erect carriage [syn: homo, man, human being, human] 5: a male subordinate; "the chief stationed two men outside the building"; "he awaited word from his man in Havana" 6: an adult male person who has a manly character (virile and courageous competent); "the army will make a man of you" 7: a manservant who acts as a personal attendant to his employer; "Jeeves was Bertie Wooster's man" [syn: valet, valet de chambre, gentleman, gentleman's gentleman, man] 8: a male person who plays a significant role (husband or lover or boyfriend) in the life of a particular woman; "she takes good care of her man" [ant: woman] 9: one of the British Isles in the Irish Sea [syn: Man, Isle of Man] 10: game equipment consisting of an object used in playing certain board games; "he taught me to set up the men on the chess board"; "he sacrificed a piece to get a strategic advantage" [syn: man, piece] 11: all of the living human inhabitants of the earth; "all the world loves a lover"; "she always used `humankind' because `mankind' seemed to slight the women" [syn: world, human race, humanity, humankind, human beings, humans, mankind, man] v 1: take charge of a certain job; occupy a certain work place; "Mr. Smith manned the reception desk in the morning" 2: provide with workers; "We cannot man all the desks"; "Students were manning the booths"

adj 1: wrong in e.g. opinion or judgment; "well-meaning but misguided teachers"; "a mistaken belief"; "mistaken identity" [syn: misguided, mistaken] 2: arising from error; "a false assumption"; "a mistaken view of the situation" [syn: false, mistaken]

n 1: a small piece of table linen that is used to wipe the mouth and to cover the lap in order to protect clothing [syn: napkin, table napkin, serviette] 2: garment consisting of a folded cloth drawn up between the legs and fastened at the waist; worn by infants to catch excrement [syn: diaper, nappy, napkin]

adj 1: consisting of or made of wood of the oak tree; "a solid oak table"; "the old oaken bucket"

adj 1: given to expressing yourself freely or insistently; "outspoken in their opposition to segregation"; "a vocal assembly" [syn: outspoken, vocal] 2: characterized by directness in manner or speech; without subtlety or evasion; "blunt talking and straight shooting"; "a blunt New England farmer"; "I gave them my candid opinion"; "forthright criticism"; "a forthright approach to the problem"; "tell me what you think--and you may just as well be frank"; "it is possible to be outspoken without being rude"; "plainspoken and to the point"; "a point-blank accusation" [syn: blunt, candid, forthright, frank, free-spoken, outspoken, plainspoken, point-blank, straight-from-the-shoulder]

n 1: a formal expression of praise [syn: encomium, eulogy, panegyric, paean, pean] 2: (ancient Greece) a hymn of praise (especially one sung in ancient Greece to invoke or thank a deity) [syn: paean, pean]

n 1: cooking utensil consisting of a wide metal vessel [syn: pan, cooking pan] 2: (Greek mythology) god of fields and woods and shepherds and flocks; represented as a man with goat's legs and horns and ears; identified with Roman Sylvanus or Faunus [syn: Pan, goat god] 3: shallow container made of metal 4: chimpanzees; more closely related to Australopithecus than to other pongids [syn: Pan, genus Pan] v 1: make a sweeping movement; "The camera panned across the room" 2: wash dirt in a pan to separate out the precious minerals [syn: pan, pan out, pan off] 3: express a totally negative opinion of; "The critics panned the performance" [syn: pan, tear apart, trash]

n 1: a large moving van (especially one used for moving furniture)

n 1: large long-winged warm-water seabird having a large bill with a distensible pouch for fish

n 1: lean dried meat pounded fine and mixed with melted fat; used especially by North American Indians [syn: pemmican, pemican]

adj 1: using simple and direct language; "a plainspoken country doctor" 2: characterized by directness in manner or speech; without subtlety or evasion; "blunt talking and straight shooting"; "a blunt New England farmer"; "I gave them my candid opinion"; "forthright criticism"; "a forthright approach to the problem"; "tell me what you think--and you may just as well be frank"; "it is possible to be outspoken without being rude"; "plainspoken and to the point"; "a point-blank accusation" [syn: blunt, candid, forthright, frank, free-spoken, outspoken, plainspoken, point-blank, straight-from-the-shoulder]

n 1: a series of steps to be carried out or goals to be accomplished; "they drew up a six-step plan"; "they discussed plans for a new bond issue" [syn: plan, program, programme] 2: an arrangement scheme; "the awkward design of the keyboard made operation difficult"; "it was an excellent design for living"; "a plan for seating guests" [syn: design, plan] 3: scale drawing of a structure; "the plans for City Hall were on file" [syn: plan, architectural plan] v 1: have the will and intention to carry out some action; "He plans to be in graduate school next year"; "The rebels had planned turmoil and confusion" [syn: plan, be after] 2: make plans for something; "He is planning a trip with his family" 3: make or work out a plan for; devise; "They contrived to murder their boss"; "design a new sales strategy"; "plan an attack" [syn: plan, project, contrive, design] 4: make a design of; plan out in systematic, often graphic form; "design a better mousetrap"; "plan the new wing of the museum" [syn: design, plan]

adj 1: of or associated with the great masses of people; "the common people in those days suffered greatly"; "behavior that branded him as common"; "his square plebeian nose"; "a vulgar and objectionable person"; "the unwashed masses" [syn: common, plebeian, vulgar, unwashed] n 1: one of the common people [syn: plebeian, pleb]

adj 1: taking on different forms; "eyes...of that baffling protean grey which is never twice the same"

n 1: the keeper of a public house [syn: publican, tavern keeper]

v 1: move faster; "The car accelerated" [syn: accelerate, speed up, speed, quicken] [ant: decelerate, retard, slow, slow down, slow up] 2: make keen or more acute; "whet my appetite" [syn: whet, quicken] 3: give life or energy to; "The cold water invigorated him" [syn: quicken, invigorate] 4: show signs of life; "the fetus quickened" 5: give new life or energy to; "A hot soup will revive me"; "This will renovate my spirits"; "This treatment repaired my health" [syn: animate, recreate, reanimate, revive, renovate, repair, quicken, vivify, revivify]

v 1: awaken once again

v 1: expect, believe, or suppose; "I imagine she earned a lot of money with her new novel"; "I thought to find her in a bad state"; "he didn't think to find her in the kitchen"; "I guess she is angry at me for standing her up" [syn: think, opine, suppose, imagine, reckon, guess] 2: judge to be probable [syn: calculate, estimate, reckon, count on, figure, forecast] 3: deem to be; "She views this quite differently from me"; "I consider her to be shallow"; "I don't see the situation quite as negatively as you do" [syn: see, consider, reckon, view, regard] 4: make a mathematical calculation or computation [syn: calculate, cipher, cypher, compute, work out, reckon, figure] 5: have faith or confidence in; "you can count on me to help you any time"; "Look to your friends for support"; "You can bet on that!"; "Depend on your family in times of crisis" [syn: count, bet, depend, look, calculate, reckon] 6: take account of; "You have to reckon with our opponents"; "Count on the monsoon" [syn: reckon, count]

adj 1: relating to or belonging to the Republican Party; "a Republican senator"; "Republican party politics" 2: having the supreme power lying in the body of citizens entitled to vote for officers and representatives responsible to them or characteristic of such government; "the United States shall guarantee to every state in this union a republican form of government"- United States Constitution; "a very republican notion"; "so little republican and so much aristocratic sentiment"- Philip Marsh; "our republican and artistic simplicity"-Nathaniel Hawthorne n 1: a member of the Republican Party 2: an advocate of a republic (usually in opposition to a monarchy) 3: a tributary of the Kansas River that flows from eastern Colorado eastward through Nebraska and Kansas [syn: Republican, Republican River]

n 1: the act of scanning; systematic examination of a prescribed region; "he made a thorough scan of the beach with his binoculars" 2: an image produced by scanning; "he analyzed the brain scan"; "you could see the tumor in the CAT scan" [syn: scan, CAT scan] v 1: examine minutely or intensely; "the surgeon scanned the X-ray" 2: examine hastily; "She scanned the newspaper headlines while waiting for the taxi" [syn: scan, skim, rake, glance over, run down] 3: make a wide, sweeping search of; "The beams scanned the night sky" 4: conform to a metrical pattern 5: move a light beam over; in electronics, to reproduce an image 6: read metrically; "scan verses" 7: obtain data from magnetic tapes; "This dictionary can be read by the computer" [syn: read, scan]

adj 1: disturbed psychologically as if by a physical jolt or shock; "retrieved his named from her jolted memory"; "the accident left her badly shaken" [syn: jolted, shaken]

adj 1: lean and wrinkled by shrinkage as from age or illness; "the old woman's shriveled skin"; "he looked shriveled and ill"; "a shrunken old man"; "a lanky scarecrow of a man with withered face and lantern jaws"-W.F.Starkie; "he did well despite his withered arm"; "a wizened little man with frizzy grey hair" [syn: shriveled, shrivelled, shrunken, withered, wizen, wizened] 2: reduced in efficacy or vitality or intensity; "our shriveled receipts during the storm"; "as the project wore on she found her enthusiasm shriveled"; "the dollar's shrunken buying power" [syn: shriveled, shrivelled, shrunken]

v 1: cause aversion in; offend the moral sense of; "The pornographic pictures sickened us" [syn: disgust, revolt, nauseate, sicken, churn up] 2: get sick; "She fell sick last Friday, and now she is in the hospital" [syn: sicken, come down] 3: upset and make nauseated; "The smell of the food turned the pregnant woman's stomach"; "The mold on the food sickened the diners" [syn: sicken, nauseate, turn one's stomach] 4: make sick or ill; "This kind of food sickens me"

n 1: a tetravalent nonmetallic element; next to oxygen it is the most abundant element in the earth's crust; occurs in clay and feldspar and granite and quartz and sand; used as a semiconductor in transistors [syn: silicon, Si, atomic number 14]

adj 1: having a smooth, gleaming surface reflecting light; "glossy auburn hair"; "satiny gardenia petals"; "sleek black fur"; "silken eyelashes"; "silky skin"; "a silklike fabric"; "slick seals and otters" [syn: satiny, sleek, silken, silky, silklike, slick]

v 1: become slow or slower; "Production slowed" [syn: slow, slow down, slow up, slack, slacken] 2: make less active or fast; "He slackened his pace as he got tired"; "Don't relax your efforts now" [syn: slack, slacken, slack up, relax] 3: become looser or slack; "the rope slackened" 4: make slack as by lessening tension or firmness [syn: slacken, remit]

n 1: the complete duration of something; "the job was finished in the span of an hour" 2: the distance or interval between two points 3: two items of the same kind [syn: couple, pair, twosome, twain, brace, span, yoke, couplet, distich, duo, duet, dyad, duad] 4: a unit of length based on the width of the expanded human hand (usually taken as 9 inches) 5: a structure that allows people or vehicles to cross an obstacle such as a river or canal or railway etc. [syn: bridge, span] 6: the act of sitting or standing astride [syn: straddle, span] v 1: to cover or extend over an area or time period; "Rivers traverse the valley floor", "The parking lot spans 3 acres"; "The novel spans three centuries" [syn: cross, traverse, span, sweep]

adj 1: uttered through the medium of speech or characterized by speech; sometimes used in combination; "a spoken message"; "the spoken language"; "a soft-spoken person"; "sharp-spoken" [ant: written]

adj 1: grievously affected especially by disease [syn: afflicted, stricken] 2: (used in combination) affected by something overwhelming; "conscience-smitten"; "awe-struck" [syn: smitten, stricken, struck] 3: put out of action (by illness) [syn: laid low(p), stricken]

adj 1: having a sunken area; "hunger gave their faces a sunken look" [syn: deep-set, sunken, recessed]

adj 1: understood in a certain way; made sense of; "a word taken literally"; "a smile taken as consent"; "an open door interpreted as an invitation" [syn: interpreted, taken] 2: be affected with an indisposition; "the child was taken ill"; "couldn't tell when he would be taken drunk"

adj 1: of a light yellowish-brown color n 1: a browning of the skin resulting from exposure to the rays of the sun [syn: tan, suntan, sunburn, burn] 2: a light brown the color of topaz [syn: tan, topaz] 3: ratio of the opposite to the adjacent side of a right-angled triangle [syn: tangent, tan] v 1: treat skins and hides with tannic acid so as to convert them into leather 2: get a tan, from wind or sun [syn: tan, bronze]

v 1: make thick or thicker; "Thicken the sauce"; "inspissate the tar so that it becomes pitch" [syn: thicken, inspissate] [ant: thin] 2: become thick or thicker; "The sauce thickened"; "The egg yolk will inspissate" [syn: thicken, inspissate] [ant: thin] 3: make viscous or dense; "thicken the sauce by adding flour" [syn: thicken, inspissate]

adj 1: insignificantly small; a matter of form only (`tokenish' is informal); "the fee was nominal"; "a token gesture of resistance"; "a toknenish gesture" [syn: nominal, token(a), tokenish] n 1: an individual instance of a type of symbol; "the word`error' contains three tokens of `r'" [syn: token, item] 2: something serving as a sign of something else 3: a metal or plastic disk that can be redeemed or used in designated slot machines 4: something of sentimental value [syn: keepsake, souvenir, token, relic]

n 1: brilliantly colored arboreal fruit-eating bird of tropical America having a very large thin-walled beak

adj 1: marked by continuous or uninterrupted extension in space or time or sequence; "cars in an unbroken procession"; "the unbroken quiet of the afternoon" [ant: broken] 2: not subdued or trained for service or use; "unbroken colts" 3: (of farmland) not plowed; "unplowed fields"; "unbroken land" [syn: unplowed, unploughed, unbroken] [ant: ploughed, plowed] 4: (especially of promises or contracts) not violated or disregarded; "unbroken promises"; "promises kept" [syn: unbroken, kept] [ant: broken, unkept] 5: not broken; whole and intact; in one piece; "fortunately the other lens is unbroken" [ant: broken]

adj 1: unshaken in purpose; "wholly undismayed by the commercial failure of the three movies he had made" [syn: undaunted, undismayed, unshaken]

adj 1: expressed without speech; "a mute appeal"; "a silent curse"; "best grief is tongueless"- Emily Dickinson; "the words stopped at her lips unsounded"; "unspoken grief"; "choking exasperation and wordless shame"- Thomas Wolfe [syn: mute, tongueless, unspoken, wordless] 2: not made explicit; "the unexpressed terms of the agreement"; "things left unsaid"; "some kind of unspoken agreement"; "his action is clear but his reason remains unstated" [syn: unexpressed, unsaid, unstated, unuttered, unverbalized, unverbalised, unvoiced, unspoken]

n 1: any creative group active in the innovation and application of new concepts and techniques in a given field (especially in the arts) [syn: avant-garde, vanguard, van, new wave] 2: the leading units moving at the head of an army [syn: vanguard, van] 3: (Great Britain) a closed railroad car that carries baggage or freight 4: a camper equipped with living quarters [syn: van, caravan] 5: a truck with an enclosed cargo space

v 1: cause to become awake or conscious; "He was roused by the drunken men in the street"; "Please wake me at 6 AM." [syn: awaken, wake, waken, rouse, wake up, arouse] [ant: cause to sleep] 2: stop sleeping; "She woke up to the sound of the alarm clock" [syn: wake up, awake, arouse, awaken, wake, come alive, waken] [ant: dope off, doze off, drift off, drop off, drowse off, fall asleep, flake out, nod off]

n 1: a common mineral occurring in small crystals; chief source of zirconium; used as a refractory when opaque and as a gem when transparent [syn: zircon, zirconium silicate]

n 1: an inhabitant of the Balkan Peninsula

n 1: 16th President of the United States; saved the Union during the American Civil War and emancipated the slaves; was assassinated by Booth (1809-1865) [syn: Lincoln, Abraham Lincoln, President Lincoln, President Abraham Lincoln] 2: capital of the state of Nebraska; located in southeastern Nebraska; site of the University of Nebraska [syn: Lincoln, capital of Nebraska] 3: long-wooled mutton sheep originally from Lincolnshire

adj 1: of or relating to or characteristic of Tuscany or its people n 1: a resident of Tuscany 2: a dialect of Italian spoken in Tuscany (especially Florence)

n 1: (Roman mythology) god of fire and metal working; counterpart of Greek Hephaestus

n 1: United States writer (1889-1973) [syn: Aiken, Conrad Aiken, Conrad Potter Aiken]

v 1: conduct or direct the steering of a ship or plane

n 1: imperial dynasty that ruled China (most of the time from 206 BC to AD 220) and expanded its boundaries and developed its bureaucracy; remembered as one of the great eras of Chinese civilization [syn: Han, Han dynasty]

n 1: an arm of the Atlantic Ocean between North and South America; the origin of the Gulf stream [syn: Caribbean, Caribbean Sea] 2: region including the Caribbean Islands

n 1: a port and resort city on the French Riviera; site of an annual film festival

n 1: the mother of your father or mother [syn: grandma, grandmother, granny, grannie, gran, nan, nanna]

n 1: United States educator who introduced reforms that significantly altered the system of public education (1796-1859) [syn: Mann, Horace Mann] 2: German writer concerned about the role of the artist in bourgeois society (1875-1955) [syn: Mann, Thomas Mann]

n 1: your grandmother 2: the mother of your father or mother [syn: grandma, grandmother, granny, grannie, gran, nan, nanna] 3: a river of western Thailand flowing southward to join the Ping River to form the Chao Phraya [syn: Nan, Nan River] 4: leavened bread baked in a clay oven in India; usually shaped like a teardrop [syn: nan, naan]

n 1: a branch of the Tai languages [syn: Tai Long, Shan]

n 1: Queen of England and Scotland and Ireland; daughter if James II and the last of the Stuart monarchs; in 1707 she was the last English ruler to exercise the royal veto over parliament (1665-1714)

n 1: a North American river that flows westward from the Yukon Territory through central Alaska to the Bering Sea [syn: Yukon, Yukon River] 2: a territory in northwestern Canada; site of the Klondike gold rush in the 1890s [syn: Yukon, Yukon Territory]

n 1: the boundary in ancient times between Italy and Gaul; Caesar's crossing it with his army in 49 BC was an act of war 2: a line that when crossed permits of no return and typically results in irrevocable commitment [syn: Rubicon, point of no return]

adj 1: of or relating to Achaea or its ancient Greek people n 1: a member of one of four linguistic divisions of the prehistoric Greeks [syn: Achaean, Achaian] 2: the ancient Greek inhabitants of Achaea [syn: Achaean, Arcado-Cyprians]

adj 1: of or relating to or characteristic of Europe or the people of Europe; "European Community" n 1: a native or inhabitant of Europe

adj 1: of or relating to James I or his reign or times; "Jacobean writers" n 1: any distinguished personage during the reign of James I

n 1: a city in central Georgia to the southeast of Atlanta 2: fine Burgundy wine usually white and dry [syn: macon, maconnais]