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aerie
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n 1: the lofty nest of a bird of prey (such as a hawk or eagle)
[syn: aerie, aery, eyrie, eyry]
2: any habitation at a high altitude [syn: aerie, aery,
eyrie, eyry]
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airy
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adj 1: open to or abounding in fresh air; "airy rooms" [syn:
aired, airy]
2: not practical or realizable; speculative; "airy theories
about socioeconomic improvement"; "visionary schemes for
getting rich" [syn: airy, impractical, visionary,
Laputan, windy]
3: having little or no perceptible weight; so light as to
resemble air; "airy gauze curtains"
4: characterized by lightness and insubstantiality; as
impalpable or intangible as air; "figures light and aeriform
come unlooked for and melt away"- Thomas Carlyle; "aerial
fancies"; "an airy apparition"; "physical rather than
ethereal forms" [syn: aeriform, aerial, airy, aery,
ethereal]
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barberry
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n 1: any of numerous plants of the genus Berberis having prickly
stems and yellow flowers followed by small red berries
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berry
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n 1: any of numerous small and pulpy edible fruits; used as
desserts or in making jams and jellies and preserves
2: a small fruit having any of various structures, e.g., simple
(grape or blueberry) or aggregate (blackberry or raspberry)
3: United States rock singer (born in 1931) [syn: Berry,
Chuck Berry, Charles Edward Berry]
v 1: pick or gather berries; "We went berrying in the summer"
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blubbery
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adj 1: swollen with fat; "blubber cheeks"; "blubber lips"; "a
coarse blubbery individual"
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blueberry
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n 1: any of numerous shrubs of the genus Vaccinium bearing
blueberries [syn: blueberry, blueberry bush]
2: sweet edible dark-blue berries of either low-growing or high-
growing blueberry plants
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bribery
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n 1: the practice of offering something (usually money) in order
to gain an illicit advantage [syn: bribery, graft]
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burry
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adj 1: having or covered with protective barbs or quills or
spines or thorns or setae etc.; "a horse with a short
bristly mane"; "bristly shrubs"; "burred fruits";
"setaceous whiskers" [syn: barbed, barbellate,
briary, briery, bristled, bristly, burred,
burry, prickly, setose, setaceous, spiny,
thorny]
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bury
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v 1: cover from sight; "Afghani women buried under their burkas"
2: place in a grave or tomb; "Stalin was buried behind the
Kremlin wall on Red Square"; "The pharaohs were entombed in
the pyramids"; "My grandfather was laid to rest last Sunday"
[syn: bury, entomb, inhume, inter, lay to rest]
3: place in the earth and cover with soil; "They buried the
stolen goods"
4: enclose or envelop completely, as if by swallowing; "The huge
waves swallowed the small boat and it sank shortly
thereafter" [syn: immerse, swallow, swallow up, bury,
eat up]
5: embed deeply; "She sank her fingers into the soft sand"; "He
buried his head in her lap" [syn: bury, sink]
6: dismiss from the mind; stop remembering; "I tried to bury
these unpleasant memories" [syn: forget, bury] [ant:
remember, think of]
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cherry
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adj 1: of a color at the end of the color spectrum (next to
orange); resembling the color of blood or cherries or
tomatoes or rubies [syn: red, reddish, ruddy,
blood-red, carmine, cerise, cherry, cherry-red,
crimson, ruby, ruby-red, scarlet]
n 1: wood of any of various cherry trees especially the black
cherry
2: any of numerous trees and shrubs producing a small fleshy
round fruit with a single hard stone; many also produce a
valuable hardwood [syn: cherry, cherry tree]
3: a red fruit with a single hard stone
4: a red the color of ripe cherries [syn: cerise, cherry,
cherry red]
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rubbery
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adj 1: having an elastic texture resembling rubber in
flexibility or toughness [syn: rubbery, rubberlike]
2: difficult to chew [syn: cartilaginous, gristly,
rubbery]
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shrubbery
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n 1: an area where a number of shrubs are planted
2: a collection of shrubs growing together
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strawberry
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n 1: sweet fleshy red fruit
2: any of various low perennial herbs with many runners and
bearing white flowers followed by edible fruits having many
small achenes scattered on the surface of an enlarged red
pulpy berry
3: a soft red birthmark [syn: strawberry, strawberry mark,
hemangioma simplex]
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barrie
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n 1: Scottish dramatist and novelist; created Peter Pan
(1860-1937) [syn: Barrie, James Barrie, J. M. Barrie,
James Matthew Barrie, Sir James Matthew Barrie]
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aery
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adj 1: characterized by lightness and insubstantiality; as
impalpable or intangible as air; "figures light and
aeriform come unlooked for and melt away"- Thomas
Carlyle; "aerial fancies"; "an airy apparition";
"physical rather than ethereal forms" [syn: aeriform,
aerial, airy, aery, ethereal]
n 1: the lofty nest of a bird of prey (such as a hawk or eagle)
[syn: aerie, aery, eyrie, eyry]
2: any habitation at a high altitude [syn: aerie, aery,
eyrie, eyry]
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canterbury
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n 1: a town in Kent in southeastern England; site of the
cathedral where Thomas a Becket was martyred in 1170; seat
of the archbishop and primate of the Anglican Church
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syllabary
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n 1: a writing system whose characters represent syllables [syn:
syllabary, syllabic script]
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barbary
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n 1: a region of northern Africa on the Mediterranean coast
between Egypt and Gibraltar; was used as a base for pirates
from the 16th to 19th centuries
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airey
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arie
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barey
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barre
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barry
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berrey
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berri
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berrie
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buerry
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newbury
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maberry
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