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are
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n 1: a unit of surface area equal to 100 square meters [syn:
are, ar]
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bagpiper
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n 1: someone who plays the bagpipe [syn: piper, bagpiper]
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balalaika
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n 1: a stringed instrument that has a triangular body and three
strings
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biter
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n 1: someone who bites
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blighter
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n 1: a persistently annoying person [syn: pest, blighter,
cuss, pesterer, gadfly]
2: a boy or man; "that chap is your host"; "there's a fellow at
the door"; "he's a likable cuss"; "he's a good bloke" [syn:
chap, fellow, feller, fella, lad, gent,
blighter, cuss, bloke]
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bullfighter
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n 1: someone who fights bulls [syn: bullfighter, toreador]
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copywriter
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n 1: a person employed to write advertising or publicity copy
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cur
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n 1: an inferior dog or one of mixed breed [syn: cur,
mongrel, mutt]
2: a cowardly and despicable person
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divider
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n 1: a taxonomist who classifies organisms into many groups on
the basis of relatively minor characteristics [syn:
splitter, divider] [ant: lumper]
2: a person who separates something into parts or groups
3: a vertical structure that divides or separates (as a wall
divides one room from another) [syn: partition, divider]
4: a drafting instrument resembling a compass that is used for
dividing lines into equal segments or for transferring
measurements
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eider
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n 1: duck of the northern hemisphere much valued for the fine
soft down of the females [syn: eider, eider duck]
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fighter
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n 1: someone who fights (or is fighting) [syn: combatant,
battler, belligerent, fighter, scrapper]
2: a high-speed military or naval airplane designed to destroy
enemy aircraft in the air [syn: fighter, fighter
aircraft, attack aircraft]
3: someone who fights for a cause [syn: champion, fighter,
hero, paladin]
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glider
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n 1: aircraft supported only by the dynamic action of air
against its surfaces [syn: glider, sailplane]
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hiker
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n 1: a foot traveler; someone who goes on an extended walk (for
pleasure) [syn: hiker, tramp, tramper]
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lighter
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n 1: a substance used to ignite or kindle a fire [syn:
igniter, ignitor, lighter]
2: a device for lighting or igniting fuel or charges or fires;
"do you have a light?" [syn: lighter, light, igniter,
ignitor]
3: a flatbottom boat for carrying heavy loads (especially on
canals) [syn: barge, flatboat, hoy, lighter]
v 1: transport in a flatbottom boat
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mica
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n 1: any of various minerals consisting of hydrous silicates of
aluminum or potassium etc. that crystallize in forms that
allow perfect cleavage into very thin leaves; used as
dielectrics because of their resistance to electricity
[syn: mica, isinglass]
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nitre
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n 1: (KNO3) used especially as a fertilizer and explosive [syn:
potassium nitrate, saltpeter, saltpetre, niter,
nitre]
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pica
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n 1: an eating disorder, frequent in children, in which non-
nutritional objects are eaten persistently
2: a linear unit (1/6 inch) used in printing [syn: em, pica
em, pica]
3: magpies [syn: Pica, genus Pica]
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rider
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n 1: a traveler who actively rides an animal (as a horse or
camel)
2: a clause that is appended to a legislative bill
3: a traveler who actively rides a vehicle (as a bicycle or
motorcycle)
4: a traveler riding in a vehicle (a boat or bus or car or plane
or train etc) who is not operating it [syn: passenger,
rider]
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strider
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n 1: a person who walks rapidly with long steps; "he was such a
strider that she couldn't keep up without running"
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striker
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n 1: a forward on a soccer team
2: someone receiving intensive training for a naval technical
rating
3: an employee on strike against an employer
4: someone who hits; "a hard hitter"; "a fine striker of the
ball"; "blacksmiths are good hitters" [syn: hitter,
striker]
5: the part of a mechanical device that strikes something
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striper
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n 1: a serviceman who wears stripes on the uniform to indicate
rank or years of service; "he's a four-striper"
2: caught along the Atlantic coast of the United States [syn:
striped bass, striper]
3: marine food and game fish with dark longitudinal stripes;
migrates upriver to spawn; sometimes placed in the genus
Morone [syn: striped bass, striper, Roccus saxatilis,
rockfish]
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tiger
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n 1: a fierce or audacious person; "he's a tiger on the tennis
court"; "it aroused the tiger in me"
2: large feline of forests in most of Asia having a tawny coat
with black stripes; endangered [syn: tiger, Panthera
tigris]
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writer
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n 1: writes (books or stories or articles or the like)
professionally (for pay) [syn: writer, author]
2: a person who is able to write and has written something
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miter
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n 1: joint that forms a corner; usually both sides are bevelled
at a 45-degree angle to form a 90-degree corner [syn:
miter joint, mitre joint, miter, mitre]
2: the surface of a beveled end of a piece where a miter joint
is made; "he covered the miter with glue before making the
joint" [syn: miter, mitre]
3: a liturgical headdress worn by bishops on formal occasions
[syn: miter, mitre]
v 1: bevel the edges of, to make a miter joint
2: confer a miter on (a bishop)
3: fit together in a miter joint
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niter
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n 1: (KNO3) used especially as a fertilizer and explosive [syn:
potassium nitrate, saltpeter, saltpetre, niter,
nitre]
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spica
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n 1: the brightest star in Virgo
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pika
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n 1: small short-eared burrowing mammal of rocky uplands of Asia
and western North America [syn: pika, mouse hare, rock
rabbit, coney, cony]
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vesica
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n 1: a distensible membranous sac (usually containing liquid or
gas) [syn: bladder, vesica]
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brighter
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decider
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duiker
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guider
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hider
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hyper
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piker
0
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righter
0
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snider
0
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tighter
0
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whiter
0
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wider
0
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nighter
0
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zuleika
0
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aicher
0
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bleicher
0
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byker
0
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eicher
0
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keicher
0
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kiker
0
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kreicher
0
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kyker
0
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leiker
0
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reicher
0
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riker
0
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ryker
0
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schleicher
0
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sliker
0
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speicher
0
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spiker
0
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spyker
0
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streicher
0
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streiker
0
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stryker
0
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teicher
0
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weicker
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weiker
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wiker
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curr
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railbiker
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