Words that rhyme with barre

n 1: someone versed in the collection and interpretation of numerical data (especially someone who uses statistics to calculate insurance premiums) [syn: statistician, actuary]

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]

adv 1: (old-fashioned) at or from or to a great distance; far; "we traveled afar"; "we could see the ship afar off"; "the Magi came from afar"

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]

adj 1: slightly open; "the door was ajar"

v 1: make it possible through a specific action or lack of action for something to happen; "This permits the water to rush in"; "This sealed door won't allow the water come into the basement"; "This will permit the rain to run off" [syn: let, allow, permit] [ant: keep, prevent] 2: consent to, give permission; "She permitted her son to visit her estranged husband"; "I won't let the police search her basement"; "I cannot allow you to see your exam" [syn: permit, allow, let, countenance] [ant: disallow, forbid, interdict, nix, prohibit, proscribe, veto] 3: let have; "grant permission"; "Mandela was allowed few visitors in prison" [syn: allow, grant] [ant: deny, refuse] 4: give or assign a resource to a particular person or cause; "I will earmark this money for your research"; "She sets aside time for meditation every day" [syn: allow, appropriate, earmark, set aside, reserve] 5: make a possibility or provide opportunity for; permit to be attainable or cause to remain; "This leaves no room for improvement"; "The evidence allows only one conclusion"; "allow for mistakes"; "leave lots of time for the trip"; "This procedure provides for lots of leeway" [syn: leave, allow for, allow, provide] 6: allow or plan for a certain possibility; concede the truth or validity of something; "I allow for this possibility"; "The seamstress planned for 5% shrinkage after the first wash" [syn: allow, take into account] 7: afford possibility; "This problem admits of no solution"; "This short story allows of several different interpretations" [syn: admit, allow] 8: allow the other (baseball) team to score; "give up a run" [syn: give up, allow] 9: grant as a discount or in exchange; "The camera store owner allowed me $50 on my old camera" 10: allow the presence of or allow (an activity) without opposing or prohibiting; "We don't allow dogs here"; "Children are not permitted beyond this point"; "We cannot tolerate smoking in the hospital" [syn: allow, permit, tolerate]

n 1: a unit of surface area equal to 100 square meters [syn: are, ar]

n 1: the cry made by sheep v 1: cry plaintively; "The lambs were bleating" [syn: bleat, blate, blat, baa]

n 1: a poisonous berry of a plant of the genus Actaea 2: a plant of the genus Actaea having acrid poisonous berries [syn: baneberry, cohosh, herb Christopher]

n 1: a room or establishment where alcoholic drinks are served over a counter; "he drowned his sorrows in whiskey at the bar" [syn: barroom, bar, saloon, ginmill, taproom] 2: a counter where you can obtain food or drink; "he bought a hot dog and a coke at the bar" 3: a rigid piece of metal or wood; usually used as a fastening or obstruction or weapon; "there were bars in the windows to prevent escape" 4: musical notation for a repeating pattern of musical beats; "the orchestra omitted the last twelve bars of the song" [syn: measure, bar] 5: an obstruction (usually metal) placed at the top of a goal; "it was an excellent kick but the ball hit the bar" 6: the act of preventing; "there was no bar against leaving"; "money was allocated to study the cause and prevention of influenza" [syn: prevention, bar] 7: (meteorology) a unit of pressure equal to a million dynes per square centimeter; "unfortunately some writers have used bar for one dyne per square centimeter" 8: a submerged (or partly submerged) ridge in a river or along a shore; "the boat ran aground on a submerged bar in the river" 9: the body of individuals qualified to practice law in a particular jurisdiction; "he was admitted to the bar in New Jersey" [syn: legal profession, bar, legal community] 10: a narrow marking of a different color or texture from the background; "a green toad with small black stripes or bars"; "may the Stars and Stripes forever wave" [syn: stripe, streak, bar] 11: a block of solid substance (such as soap or wax); "a bar of chocolate" [syn: cake, bar] 12: a portable .30 caliber automatic rifle operated by gas pressure and fed by cartridges from a magazine; used by United States troops in World War I and in World War II and in the Korean War [syn: Browning automatic rifle, BAR] 13: a horizontal rod that serves as a support for gymnasts as they perform exercises 14: a heating element in an electric fire; "an electric fire with three bars" 15: (law) a railing that encloses the part of the courtroom where the judges and lawyers sit and the case is tried; "spectators were not allowed past the bar" v 1: prevent from entering; keep out; "He was barred from membership in the club" [syn: bar, debar, exclude] 2: render unsuitable for passage; "block the way"; "barricade the streets"; "stop the busy road" [syn: barricade, block, blockade, stop, block off, block up, bar] 3: expel, as if by official decree; "he was banished from his own country" [syn: banish, relegate, bar] 4: secure with, or as if with, bars; "He barred the door" [ant: unbar]

n 1: any of numerous plants of the genus Berberis having prickly stems and yellow flowers followed by small red berries

n 1: West Indian tree; source of bay rum [syn: bayberry, bay- rum tree, Jamaica bayberry, wild cinnamon, Pimenta acris] 2: deciduous aromatic shrub of eastern North America with grey- green wax-coated berries [syn: bayberry, candleberry, swamp candleberry, waxberry, Myrica pensylvanica]

n 1: a shop where a variety of goods are sold [syn: bazaar, bazar] 2: a street of small shops (especially in Orient) [syn: bazaar, bazar] 3: a sale of miscellany; often for charity; "the church bazaar" [syn: bazaar, fair]

n 1: shrubby tree of the Pacific coast of the United States; yields cascara sagrada [syn: cascara buckthorn, bearberry, bearwood, chittamwood, chittimwood, Rhamnus purshianus] 2: deciduous shrub of southeastern and central United States [syn: bearberry, possum haw, winterberry, Ilex decidua] 3: chiefly evergreen subshrubs of northern to Arctic areas

n 1: avitaminosis caused by lack of thiamine (vitamin B1)

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"

n 1: erect European blueberry having solitary flowers and blue- black berries [syn: bilberry, whortleberry, whinberry, blaeberry, Viccinium myrtillus] 2: erect blueberry of western United States having solitary flowers and somewhat sour berries [syn: bilberry, thin- leaved bilberry, mountain blue berry, Viccinium membranaceum] 3: blue-black berries similar to American blueberries [syn: bilberry, whortleberry, European blueberry]

adj 1: conspicuously or grossly unconventional or unusual; "restaurants of bizarre design--one like a hat, another like a rabbit"; "famed for his eccentric spelling"; "a freakish combination of styles"; "his off-the-wall antics"; "the outlandish clothes of teenagers"; "outre and affected stage antics" [syn: bizarre, eccentric, freakish, freaky, flaky, flakey, gonzo, off- the-wall, outlandish, outre]

n 1: large sweet black or very dark purple edible aggregate fruit of any of various bushes of the genus Rubus 2: bramble with sweet edible black or dark purple berries that usually do not separate from the receptacle [syn: blackberry, blackberry bush] v 1: pick or gather blackberries; "The children went blackberrying"

n 1: pompous or pretentious talk or writing [syn: bombast, fustian, rant, claptrap, blah]

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

n 1: cultivated hybrid bramble of California having large dark wine-red fruit with a flavor resembling raspberries [syn: boysenberry, boysenberry bush] 2: large raspberry-flavored fruit; cross between blackberries and raspberries

n 1: an undergarment worn by women to support their breasts [syn: brassiere, bra, bandeau]

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]

adj 1: having the color of a canary; of a light to moderate yellow [syn: canary, canary-yellow] n 1: someone acting as an informer or decoy for the police [syn: fink, snitch, snitcher, stoolpigeon, stool pigeon, stoolie, sneak, sneaker, canary] 2: a female singer 3: a moderate yellow with a greenish tinge [syn: canary yellow, canary] 4: any of several small Old World finches [syn: canary, canary bird]

n 1: deciduous aromatic shrub of eastern North America with grey-green wax-coated berries [syn: bayberry, candleberry, swamp candleberry, waxberry, Myrica pensylvanica]

n 1: a motor vehicle with four wheels; usually propelled by an internal combustion engine; "he needs a car to get to work" [syn: car, auto, automobile, machine, motorcar] 2: a wheeled vehicle adapted to the rails of railroad; "three cars had jumped the rails" [syn: car, railcar, railway car, railroad car] 3: the compartment that is suspended from an airship and that carries personnel and the cargo and the power plant [syn: car, gondola] 4: where passengers ride up and down; "the car was on the top floor" [syn: car, elevator car] 5: a conveyance for passengers or freight on a cable railway; "they took a cable car to the top of the mountain" [syn: cable car, car]

n 1: a charred substance 2: a human female employed to do housework; "the char will clean the carpet"; "I have a woman who comes in four hours a day while I write" [syn: charwoman, char, cleaning woman, cleaning lady, woman] 3: any of several small trout-like fish of the genus Salvelinus [syn: char, charr] v 1: burn to charcoal; "Without a drenching rain, the forest fire will char everything" [syn: char, coal] 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: creeping shrub of eastern North America having white bell- shaped flowers followed by spicy red berrylike fruit and shiny aromatic leaves that yield wintergreen oil [syn: teaberry, wintergreen, checkerberry, mountain tea, groundberry, ground-berry, creeping wintergreen, Gaultheria procumbens] 2: spicy red berrylike fruit; source of wintergreen oil [syn: wintergreen, boxberry, checkerberry, teaberry, spiceberry]

n 1: evergreen of tropical America having pulpy fruit containing saponin which was used as soap by Native Americans [syn: China tree, false dogwood, jaboncillo, chinaberry, Sapindus saponaria] 2: tree of northern India and China having purple blossoms and small inedible yellow fruits; naturalized in the southern United States as a shade tree [syn: chinaberry, chinaberry tree, China tree, Persian lilac, pride-of-India, azederach, azedarach, Melia azederach, Melia azedarach]

n 1: a roll of tobacco for smoking

adj 1: of a vivid red to reddish-orange color [syn: vermilion, vermillion, cinnabar, Chinese-red] n 1: a heavy reddish mineral consisting of mercuric sulfide; the chief source of mercury 2: large red-and-black European moth; larvae feed on leaves of ragwort; introduced into United States to control ragwort [syn: cinnabar, cinnabar moth, Callimorpha jacobeae]

n 1: creeping raspberry of north temperate regions with yellow or orange berries [syn: cloudberry, dwarf mulberry, bakeapple, baked-apple berry, salmonberry, Rubus chamaemorus]

adj 1: very opposed in nature or character or purpose; "acts contrary to our code of ethics"; "the facts point to a contrary conclusion" 2: of words or propositions so related that both cannot be true but both may be false; "`hot' and `cold' are contrary terms" 3: resistant to guidance or discipline; "Mary Mary quite contrary"; "an obstinate child with a violent temper"; "a perverse mood"; "wayward behavior" [syn: contrary, obstinate, perverse, wayward] 4: in an opposing direction; "adverse currents"; "a contrary wind" [syn: adverse, contrary] n 1: a relation of direct opposition; "we thought Sue was older than Bill but just the reverse was true" [syn: reverse, contrary, opposite] 2: exact opposition; "public opinion to the contrary he is not guilty" 3: a logical relation such that two propositions are contraries if both cannot be true but both can be false

n 1: North American deciduous shrub cultivated for it abundant clusters of coral-red berrylike fruits [syn: coralberry, Indian currant, Symphoricarpos orbiculatus] 2: shrub with coral-red berries; Japan to northern India [syn: coralberry, spiceberry, Ardisia crenata]

n 1: low evergreen shrub of high north temperate regions of Europe and Asia and America bearing red edible berries [syn: cowberry, mountain cranberry, lingonberry, lingenberry, lingberry, foxberry, Vaccinium vitis- idaea] 2: tart red berries similar to American cranberries but smaller [syn: lingonberry, mountain cranberry, cowberry, lowbush cranberry]

n 1: any of numerous shrubs of genus Vaccinium bearing cranberries 2: very tart red berry used for sauce or juice

n 1: a horizontal bar that goes across something 2: game equipment consisting of a horizontal bar to be jumped or vaulted over 3: long thin horizontal crosspiece between two vertical posts

n 1: a heavy iron lever with one end forged into a wedge [syn: crowbar, wrecking bar, pry, pry bar]

n 1: a low evergreen shrub with small purple flowers and black berrylike fruit

n 1: a male monarch or emperor (especially of Russia prior to 1917) [syn: czar, tsar, tzar] 2: a person having great power

v 1: bar temporarily; from school, office, etc. [syn: suspend, debar] 2: prevent the occurrence of; prevent from happening; "Let's avoid a confrontation"; "head off a confrontation"; "avert a strike" [syn: debar, forefend, forfend, obviate, deflect, avert, head off, stave off, fend off, avoid, ward off] 3: prevent from entering; keep out; "He was barred from membership in the club" [syn: bar, debar, exclude]

n 1: any of several trailing blackberry brambles especially of North America [syn: dewberry, dewberry bush, running blackberry] 2: blackberry-like fruits of any of several trailing blackberry bushes

v 1: command against; "I forbid you to call me late at night"; "Mother vetoed the trip to the chocolate store"; "Dad nixed our plans" [syn: forbid, prohibit, interdict, proscribe, veto, disallow, nix] [ant: allow, countenance, let, permit]

v 1: remove from the bar; expel from the practice of law by official action; "The corrupt lawyer was disbarred"

n 1: a strong metal bar bearing a hook to attach something to be pulled

n 1: the room in the palace of a native prince of India in which audiences and receptions occur

n 1: a common shrub with black fruit or a small tree of Europe and Asia; fruit used for wines and jellies [syn: bourtree, black elder, common elder, elderberry, European elder, Sambucus nigra] 2: berrylike fruit of an elder used for e.g. wines and jellies

adv 1: to a considerable degree; very much; "a far far better thing that I do"; "felt far worse than yesterday"; "eyes far too close together" 2: at or to or from a great distance in space; "he traveled far"; "strayed far from home"; "sat far away from each other" 3: at or to a certain point or degree; "I can only go so far before I have to give up"; "how far can we get with this kind of argument?" 4: remote in time; "if we could see far into the future"; "all that happened far in the past" 5: to an advanced stage or point; "a young man who will go very far" adj 1: located at a great distance in time or space or degree; "we come from a far country"; "far corners of the earth"; "the far future"; "a far journey"; "the far side of the road"; "far from the truth"; "far in the future" [ant: close, near, nigh] 2: being of a considerable distance or length; "a far trek" 3: being the animal or vehicle on the right or being on the right side of an animal or vehicle; "the horse on the right is the far horse"; "the right side is the far side of the horse" 4: beyond a norm in opinion or actions; "the far right" n 1: a terrorist organization that seeks to overthrow the government dominated by Tutsi and to institute Hutu control again; "in 1999 ALIR guerrillas kidnapped and killed eight foreign tourists" [syn: Army for the Liberation of Rwanda, ALIR, Former Armed Forces, FAR, Interahamwe]

n 1: primitive predaceous North American fish covered with hard scales and having long jaws with needlelike teeth [syn: gar, garfish, garpike, billfish, Lepisosteus osseus] 2: elongate European surface-dwelling predacious fishes with long toothed jaws; abundant in coastal waters [syn: needlefish, gar, billfish]

adj 1: shining intensely; "the blazing sun"; "blinding headlights"; "dazzling snow"; "fulgent patterns of sunlight"; "the glaring sun" [syn: blazing, blinding, dazzling, fulgent, glaring, glary]

n 1: spiny Eurasian shrub having greenish purple-tinged flowers and ovoid yellow-green or red-purple berries [syn: gooseberry, gooseberry bush, Ribes uva-crispa, Ribes grossularia] 2: currant-like berry used primarily in jams and jellies

n 1: a stringed instrument usually having six strings; played by strumming or plucking

n 1: (astronomy) the angular distance of a celestial point measured westward along the celestial equator from the zenith crossing; the right ascension for an observer at a particular location and time of day [syn: hour angle, HA]

n 1: any of various trees of the genus Celtis having inconspicuous flowers and small berrylike fruits [syn: hackberry, nettle tree] 2: small edible dark purple to black berry with large pits; southern United States [syn: sugarberry, hackberry]

n 1: the shaped bar used to steer a bicycle

n 1: any of various dark-fruited as distinguished from blue- fruited blueberries 2: any of several shrubs of the genus Gaylussacia bearing small berries resembling blueberries 3: blue-black berry similar to blueberries and bilberries of the eastern United States

n 1: evergreen holly of eastern North America with oblong leathery leaves and small black berries [syn: inkberry, gallberry, gall-berry, evergreen winterberry, Ilex glabra]

n 1: (meteorology)an isogram connecting points having equal barometric pressure at a given time

n 1: a vessel (usually cylindrical) with a wide mouth and without handles 2: the quantity contained in a jar; "he drank a jar of beer" [syn: jar, jarful] 3: a sudden jarring impact; "the door closed with a jolt"; "all the jars and jolts were smoothed out by the shock absorbers" [syn: jolt, jar, jounce, shock] v 1: be incompatible; be or come into conflict; "These colors clash" [syn: clash, jar, collide] 2: move or cause to move with a sudden jerky motion [syn: jolt, jar] 3: shock physically; "Georgia was shaken up in the Tech game" [syn: jar, shake up, bump around] 4: affect in a disagreeable way; "This play jarred the audience" 5: place in a cylindrical vessel; "jar the jam"

n 1: a white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily; occurs in rare earth minerals and is usually classified as a rare earth [syn: lanthanum, La, atomic number 57] 2: a state in southern United States on the Gulf of Mexico; one of the Confederate states during the American Civil War [syn: Louisiana, Pelican State, LA] 3: the syllable naming the sixth (submediant) note of a major or minor scale in solmization [syn: la, lah]

n 1: red-fruited bramble native from Oregon to Baja California [syn: loganberry, Rubus loganobaccus, Rubus ursinus loganobaccus] 2: large red variety of the dewberry

adj 1: of or relating to or near the part of the back between the ribs and the hipbones; "lumbar vertebrae"

n 1: informal terms for a mother [syn: ma, mama, mamma, mom, momma, mommy, mammy, mum, mummy] 2: a master's degree in arts and sciences [syn: Master of Arts, MA, Artium Magister, AM] 3: one thousandth of an ampere [syn: milliampere, mA] 4: a state in New England; one of the original 13 colonies [syn: Massachusetts, Bay State, Old Colony, MA]

n 1: the month following February and preceding April [syn: March, Mar] 2: a mark or flaw that spoils the appearance of something (especially on a person's body); "a facial blemish" [syn: blemish, defect, mar] v 1: make imperfect; "nothing marred her beauty" [syn: mar, impair, spoil, deflower, vitiate] 2: destroy or injure severely; "mutilated bodies" [syn: mutilate, mar]

n 1: a unit of atmospheric pressure equal to one thousandth of a bar; "atmospheric pressure at sea level is 1013 millibars"

n 1: any of several trees of the genus Morus having edible fruit that resembles the blackberry [syn: mulberry, mulberry tree] 2: sweet usually dark purple blackberry-like fruit of any of several mulberry trees of the genus Morus

n 1: an informal term for a father; probably derived from baby talk [syn: dad, dada, daddy, pa, papa, pappa, pop] 2: a short-lived radioactive metallic element formed from uranium and disintegrating into actinium and then into lead [syn: protactinium, protoactinium, Pa, atomic number 91] 3: a unit of pressure equal to one newton per square meter [syn: pascal, Pa] 4: a Mid-Atlantic state; one of the original 13 colonies [syn: Pennsylvania, Keystone State, PA] 5: an electronic amplification system used as a communication system in public areas [syn: public address system, P.A. system, PA system, P.A., PA]

n 1: (golf) the standard number of strokes set for each hole on a golf course, or for the entire course; "a par-5 hole"; "par for this course is 72" 2: a state of being essentially equal or equivalent; equally balanced; "on a par with the best" [syn: equality, equivalence, equation, par] v 1: make a score (on a hole) equal to par

n 1: (ballet) a step in dancing (especially in classical ballet)

n 1: a treeless grassy plain

n 1: woody brambles bearing usually red but sometimes black or yellow fruits that separate from the receptacle when ripe and are rounder and smaller than blackberries [syn: raspberry, raspberry bush] 2: red or black edible aggregate berries usually smaller than the related blackberries 3: a cry or noise made to express displeasure or contempt [syn: boo, hoot, Bronx cheer, hiss, raspberry, razzing, razz, snort, bird]

v 1: marry, not for the first time; "After her divorce, she remarried her high school sweetheart"

n 1: creeping raspberry of north temperate regions with yellow or orange berries [syn: cloudberry, dwarf mulberry, bakeapple, baked-apple berry, salmonberry, Rubus chamaemorus] 2: white-flowered raspberry of western North America and northern Mexico with thimble-shaped orange berries [syn: salmonberry, salmon berry, thimbleberry, Rubus parviflorus] 3: large erect red-flowered raspberry of western North America having large pinkish-orange berries [syn: salmonberry, Rubus spectabilis]

n 1: a bar of sand [syn: sandbar, sand bar]

n 1: a mark left (usually on the skin) by the healing of injured tissue [syn: scar, cicatrix, cicatrice] 2: an indication of damage [syn: scratch, scrape, scar, mark] v 1: mark with a scar; "The skin disease scarred his face permanently" [syn: scar, mark, pock, pit]

adj 1: provoking fear terror; "a scary movie"; "the most terrible and shuddery...tales of murder and revenge" [syn: chilling, scarey, scary, shivery, shuddery]

n 1: a neutral middle vowel; occurs in unstressed syllables [syn: schwa, shwa]

n 1: any of various North American trees or shrubs having showy white flowers and edible blue-black or purplish fruit [syn: Juneberry, serviceberry, service tree, shadbush, shadblow] 2: edible purple or red berries [syn: saskatoon, serviceberry, shadberry, juneberry]

n 1: edible purple or red berries [syn: saskatoon, serviceberry, shadberry, juneberry]

n 1: title for the former hereditary monarch of Iran [syn: Shah, Shah of Iran]

n 1: a stringed instrument of India; has a long neck and movable frets; has 6 or 7 metal strings for playing and usually 13 resonating strings

n 1: deciduous shrub of western North America having spikes of pink flowers followed by round white berries [syn: snowberry, common snowberry, waxberry, Symphoricarpos alba]

n 1: a vehicle used to push snow from roads [syn: snowplow, snowplough]

n 1: a tree of the genus Sapindus whose fruit is rich in saponin [syn: soapberry, soapberry tree]

n 1: a health resort near a spring or at the seaside [syn: watering place, watering hole, spa] 2: a fashionable hotel usually in a resort area [syn: resort hotel, spa] 3: a place of business with equipment and facilities for exercising and improving physical fitness [syn: health spa, spa, health club]

n 1: any of various nonmetallic minerals (calcite or feldspar) that are light in color and transparent or translucent and cleavable 2: a stout rounded pole of wood or metal used to support rigging 3: making the motions of attack and defense with the fists and arms; a part of training for a boxer [syn: spar, sparring] v 1: furnish with spars 2: fight with spurs; "the gamecocks were sparring" 3: box lightly 4: fight verbally; "They were sparring all night"

n 1: shrub with coral-red berries; Japan to northern India [syn: coralberry, spiceberry, Ardisia crenata] 2: spicy red berrylike fruit; source of wintergreen oil [syn: wintergreen, boxberry, checkerberry, teaberry, spiceberry]

adj 1: indicating the most important performer or role; "the leading man"; "prima ballerina"; "prima donna"; "a star figure skater"; "the starring role"; "a stellar role"; "a stellar performance" [syn: leading(p), prima(p), star(p), starring(p), stellar(a)] n 1: (astronomy) a celestial body of hot gases that radiates energy derived from thermonuclear reactions in the interior 2: someone who is dazzlingly skilled in any field [syn: ace, adept, champion, sensation, maven, mavin, virtuoso, genius, hotshot, star, superstar, whiz, whizz, wizard, wiz] 3: any celestial body visible (as a point of light) from the Earth at night 4: an actor who plays a principal role [syn: star, principal, lead] 5: a plane figure with 5 or more points; often used as an emblem 6: a performer who receives prominent billing [syn: headliner, star] 7: a star-shaped character * used in printing [syn: asterisk, star] 8: the topology of a network whose components are connected to a hub [syn: star topology, star] v 1: feature as the star; "The movie stars Dustin Hoffman as an autistic man" 2: be the star in a performance 3: mark with an asterisk; "Linguists star unacceptable sentences" [syn: star, asterisk]

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]

n 1: someone who is dazzlingly skilled in any field [syn: ace, adept, champion, sensation, maven, mavin, virtuoso, genius, hotshot, star, superstar, whiz, whizz, wizard, wiz]

n 1: any of various dark heavy viscid substances obtained as a residue [syn: pitch, tar] 2: a man who serves as a sailor [syn: mariner, seaman, tar, Jack-tar, Jack, old salt, seafarer, gob, sea dog] v 1: coat with tar; "tar the roof"; "tar the roads"

n 1: a male monarch or emperor (especially of Russia prior to 1917) [syn: czar, tsar, tzar]

n 1: shrubby honeysuckle with purple flowers; western North America [syn: twinberry, Lonicera involucrata] 2: creeping woody plant of eastern North America with shiny evergreen leaves and scarlet berries [syn: partridgeberry, boxberry, twinberry, Mitchella repens]

v 1: remove a bar from (a door) [ant: bar]

adj 1: not alert to danger or deception; "the shrieks of unwary animals taken by surprise"; "some thieves prey especially on unwary travelers"; "seduce the unwary reader into easy acquiescence"- O.J.Campbell [ant: wary]

n 1: erect European blueberry having solitary flowers and blue- black berries [syn: bilberry, whortleberry, whinberry, blaeberry, Viccinium myrtillus] 2: blue-black berries similar to American blueberries [syn: bilberry, whortleberry, European blueberry]

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]

n 1: aromatic herb of southern Europe; cultivated in Great Britain as a potherb and widely as an ornamental [syn: clary, Salvia sclarea]

n 1: United States engineer and inventor of the gyrocompass (1860-1930) [syn: Sperry, Elmer Ambrose Sperry]