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agate
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n 1: an impure form of quartz consisting of banded chalcedony;
used as a gemstone and for making mortars and pestles
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aggregate
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adj 1: formed of separate units gathered into a mass or whole;
"aggregate expenses include expenses of all divisions
combined for the entire year"; "the aggregated amount of
indebtedness" [syn: aggregate, aggregated,
aggregative, mass]
2: composed of a dense cluster of separate units such as carpels
or florets or drupelets; "raspberries are aggregate fruits"
n 1: the whole amount [syn: sum, total, totality,
aggregate]
2: material such as sand or gravel used with cement and water to
make concrete, mortar, or plaster
3: a sum total of many heterogenous things taken together [syn:
aggregate, congeries, conglomeration]
v 1: amount in the aggregate to
2: gather in a mass, sum, or whole [syn: aggregate, combine]
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at
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n 1: a highly unstable radioactive element (the heaviest of the
halogen series); a decay product of uranium and thorium
[syn: astatine, At, atomic number 85]
2: 100 at equal 1 kip in Laos
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bigot
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n 1: a prejudiced person who is intolerant of any opinions
differing from his own
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delegate
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n 1: a person appointed or elected to represent others
v 1: transfer power to someone [syn: delegate, depute]
2: give an assignment to (a person) to a post, or assign a task
to (a person) [syn: delegate, designate, depute,
assign]
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ergot
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n 1: a plant disease caused by the ergot fungus
2: a fungus that infects various cereal plants forming compact
black masses of branching filaments that replace many grains
of the plant; source of medicinally important alkaloids and
of lysergic acid [syn: ergot, Claviceps purpurea]
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frigate
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n 1: a medium size square-rigged warship of the 18th and 19th
centuries
2: a United States warship larger than a destroyer and smaller
than a cruiser
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ingot
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n 1: metal that is cast in the shape of a block for convenient
handling [syn: ingot, metal bar, block of metal]
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legate
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n 1: a member of a legation [syn: legate, official emissary]
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maggot
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n 1: the larva of the housefly and blowfly commonly found in
decaying organic matter
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nougat
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n 1: nuts or fruit pieces in a sugar paste
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nugget
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n 1: a solid lump of a precious metal (especially gold) as found
in the earth
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vulgate
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n 1: the Latin edition of the Bible translated from Hebrew and
Greek mainly by St. Jerome at the end of the 4th century;
as revised in 1592 it was adopted as the official text for
the Roman Catholic Church
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babbitt
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n 1: an alloy of tin with some copper and antimony; a lining for
bearings that reduces friction [syn: Babbitt metal,
babbitt]
v 1: line with a Babbitt metal
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cabot
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n 1: son of John Cabot who was born in Italy and who led an
English expedition in search of the Northwest Passage and a
Spanish expedition that explored the La Plata region of
Brazil; in 1544 he published a map of the world (1476-1557)
[syn: Cabot, Sebastian Cabot]
2: Italian explorer who led the English expedition in 1497 that
discovered the mainland of North America and explored the
coast from Nova Scotia to Newfoundland (ca. 1450-1498) [syn:
Cabot, John Cabot, Giovanni Cabato]
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fagot
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n 1: offensive term for an openly homosexual man [syn: fagot,
faggot, fag, fairy, nance, pansy, queen,
queer, poof, poove, pouf]
2: a bundle of sticks and branches bound together [syn: fagot,
faggot]
v 1: ornament or join (fabric) by faggot stitch; "He fagotted
the blouse for his wife" [syn: faggot, fagot]
2: fasten together rods of iron in order to heat or weld them
[syn: faggot, fagot]
3: bind or tie up in or as if in a faggot; "faggot up the
sticks" [syn: faggot, fagot, faggot up]
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margate
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n 1: a grunt with a red mouth that is found from Florida to
Brazil [syn: margate, Haemulon album]
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drugget
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n 1: a rug made of a coarse fabric having a cotton warp and a
wool filling
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baggett
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claggett
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daggett
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haggett
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zagat
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zagut
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swaggart
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taggart
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mctaggart
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virgate
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hoggart
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