Words that rhyme with brough

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: black-and-white short-necked web-footed diving bird of northern seas

v 1: to declare or affirm solemnly and formally as true; "Before God I swear I am innocent" [syn: affirm, verify, assert, avow, aver, swan, swear] 2: admit openly and bluntly; make no bones about [syn: avow, avouch] [ant: disavow]

adj 1: very steep; having a prominent and almost vertical front; "a bluff headland"; "where the bold chalk cliffs of England rise"; "a sheer descent of rock" [syn: bluff, bold, sheer] 2: bluntly direct and outspoken but good-natured; "a bluff but pleasant manner"; "a bluff and rugged natural leader" n 1: a high steep bank (usually formed by river erosion) 2: pretense that your position is stronger than it really is; "his bluff succeeded in getting him accepted" 3: the act of bluffing in poker; deception by a false show of confidence in the strength of your cards [syn: bluff, four flush] v 1: deceive an opponent by a bold bet on an inferior hand with the result that the opponent withdraws a winning hand [syn: bluff, bluff out] 2: frighten someone by pretending to be stronger than one really is

n 1: any of the larger branches of a tree

n 1: a knot with two loops and loose ends; used to tie shoelaces [syn: bow, bowknot] 2: a slightly curved piece of resilient wood with taut horsehair strands; used in playing certain stringed instruments 3: front part of a vessel or aircraft; "he pointed the bow of the boat toward the finish line" [syn: bow, fore, prow, stem] 4: a weapon for shooting arrows, composed of a curved piece of resilient wood with a taut cord to propel the arrow 5: something curved in shape [syn: bow, arc] 6: bending the head or body or knee as a sign of reverence or submission or shame or greeting [syn: bow, bowing, obeisance] 7: an appearance by actors or performers at the end of the concert or play in order to acknowledge the applause of the audience [syn: bow, curtain call] 8: a decorative interlacing of ribbons 9: a stroke with a curved piece of wood with taut horsehair strands that is used in playing stringed instruments v 1: bend one's knee or body, or lower one's head; "He bowed before the King"; "She bowed her head in shame" [syn: bow, bow down] 2: yield to another's wish or opinion; "The government bowed to the military pressure" [syn: submit, bow, defer, accede, give in] 3: bend the head or the upper part of the body in a gesture of respect or greeting; "He bowed before the King" 4: bend one's back forward from the waist on down; "he crouched down"; "She bowed before the Queen"; "The young man stooped to pick up the girl's purse" [syn: crouch, stoop, bend, bow] 5: play on a string instrument with a bow

n 1: the part of the face above the eyes [syn: brow, forehead] 2: the arch of hair above each eye [syn: eyebrow, brow, supercilium] 3: the peak of a hill; "the sun set behind the brow of distant hills" [syn: hilltop, brow]

n 1: a European corvine bird of small or medium size with red legs and glossy black plumage

n 1: the imperial dynasty of China from 1122 to 221 BC; notable for the rise of Confucianism and Taoism [syn: Zhou, Zhou dynasty, Chou, Chou dynasty, Chow, Chow dynasty] 2: informal terms for a meal [syn: chow, chuck, eats, grub] 3: breed of medium-sized dogs with a thick coat and fluffy curled tails and distinctive blue-black tongues; believed to have originated in northern China [syn: chow, chow chow]

v 1: blow hard and loudly; "he huffed and puffed as he made his way up the mountain" [syn: puff, huff, chuff]

n 1: an acknowledgment that can be used to say hello or goodbye (aloha is Hawaiian and ciao is Italian) [syn: aloha, ciao]

n 1: female of domestic cattle: "`moo-cow' is a child's term" [syn: cow, moo-cow] 2: mature female of mammals of which the male is called `bull' 3: a large unpleasant woman v 1: subdue, restrain, or overcome by affecting with a feeling of awe; frighten (as with threats) [syn: overawe, cow]

n 1: the lap consisting of a turned-back hem encircling the end of the sleeve or leg [syn: cuff, turnup] 2: shackle that consists of a metal loop that can be locked around the wrist; usually used in pairs [syn: handcuff, cuff, handlock, manacle] v 1: hit with the hand [syn: cuff, whomp] 2: confine or restrain with or as if with manacles or handcuffs; "The police handcuffed the suspect at the scene of the crime" [syn: manacle, cuff, handcuff]

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: refuse to acknowledge; disclaim knowledge of; responsibility for, or association with; "Her husband disavowed her after 30 years of marriage and six children" [ant: avouch, avow]

n 1: a flour mixture stiff enough to knead or roll 2: informal terms for money [syn: boodle, bread, cabbage, clams, dinero, dough, gelt, kale, lettuce, lolly, lucre, loot, moolah, pelf, scratch, shekels, simoleons, sugar, wampum]

n 1: a stiff flour pudding steamed or boiled usually and containing e.g. currants and raisins and citron [syn: duff, plum duff]

v 1: give qualities or abilities to [syn: endow, indue, gift, empower, invest, endue] 2: furnish with an endowment; "When she got married, she got dowered" [syn: endow, dower]

n 1: the arch of hair above each eye [syn: eyebrow, brow, supercilium]

n 1: any light downy material 2: something of little value or significance [syn: bagatelle, fluff, frippery, frivolity] 3: a blunder (especially an actor's forgetting the lines) v 1: make a mess of, destroy or ruin; "I botched the dinner and we had to eat out"; "the pianist screwed up the difficult passage in the second movement" [syn: botch, bodge, bumble, fumble, botch up, muff, blow, flub, screw up, ball up, spoil, muck up, bungle, fluff, bollix, bollix up, bollocks, bollocks up, bobble, mishandle, louse up, foul up, mess up, fuck up] 2: erect or fluff up; "the bird ruffled its feathers" [syn: ruffle, fluff] 3: ruffle (one's hair) by combing the ends towards the scalp, for a full effect [syn: tease, fluff]

adj 1: brusque and surly and forbidding; "crusty remarks"; "a crusty old man"; "his curmudgeonly temper"; "gruff manner"; "a gruff reply" [syn: crusty, curmudgeonly, gruff, ill-humored, ill-humoured] 2: deep and harsh sounding as if from shouting or illness or emotion; "gruff voices"; "the dog's gruff barking"; "hoarse cries"; "makes all the instruments sound powerful but husky"- Virgil Thomson [syn: gruff, hoarse, husky]

n 1: unacceptable behavior (especially ludicrously false statements) [syn: bunk, bunkum, buncombe, guff, rot, hogwash]

adj 1: highly cultured or educated; "highbrow events such as the ballet or opera"; "a highbrowed literary critic" [syn: highbrow, highbrowed] n 1: a person of intellectual or erudite tastes

n 1: a state of irritation or annoyance [syn: huff, miff, seeing red] v 1: inhale recreational drugs; "The addict was snorting cocaine almost every day"; "the kids were huffing glue" [syn: huff, snort] 2: blow hard and loudly; "he huffed and puffed as he made his way up the mountain" [syn: puff, huff, chuff]

n 1: the fact of being aware of information that is known to few people; "he is always in the know" v 1: be cognizant or aware of a fact or a specific piece of information; possess knowledge or information about; "I know that the President lied to the people"; "I want to know who is winning the game!"; "I know it's time" [syn: know, cognize, cognise] [ant: ignore] 2: know how to do or perform something; "She knows how to knit"; "Does your husband know how to cook?" 3: be aware of the truth of something; have a belief or faith in something; regard as true beyond any doubt; "I know that I left the key on the table"; "Galileo knew that the earth moves around the sun" 4: be familiar or acquainted with a person or an object; "She doesn't know this composer"; "Do you know my sister?"; "We know this movie"; "I know him under a different name"; "This flower is known as a Peruvian Lily" 5: have firsthand knowledge of states, situations, emotions, or sensations; "I know the feeling!"; "have you ever known hunger?"; "I have lived a kind of hell when I was a drug addict"; "The holocaust survivors have lived a nightmare"; "I lived through two divorces" [syn: know, experience, live] 6: accept (someone) to be what is claimed or accept his power and authority; "The Crown Prince was acknowledged as the true heir to the throne"; "We do not recognize your gods" [syn: acknowledge, recognize, recognise, know] 7: have fixed in the mind; "I know Latin"; "This student knows her irregular verbs"; "Do you know the poem well enough to recite it?" 8: have sexual intercourse with; "This student sleeps with everyone in her dorm"; "Adam knew Eve"; "Were you ever intimate with this man?" [syn: sleep together, roll in the hay, love, make out, make love, sleep with, get laid, have sex, know, do it, be intimate, have intercourse, have it away, have it off, screw, fuck, jazz, eff, hump, lie with, bed, have a go at it, bang, get it on, bonk] 9: know the nature or character of; "we all knew her as a big show-off" 10: be able to distinguish, recognize as being different; "The child knows right from wrong" 11: perceive as familiar; "I know this voice!"

n 1: a former Chinese custom of touching the ground with the forehead as a sign of respect or submission [syn: kowtow, kotow] v 1: bend the knees and bow in a servile manner [syn: scrape, kowtow, genuflect] 2: try to gain favor by cringing or flattering; "He is always kowtowing to his boss" [syn: fawn, toady, truckle, bootlick, kowtow, kotow, suck up]

n 1: a long narrow (nearly landlocked) cove in Ireland 2: Irish word for a lake

adj 1: characteristic of a person who is not cultivated or does not have intellectual tastes; "lowbrow tastes" [syn: lowbrow, lowbrowed, uncultivated] n 1: a person who is uninterested in intellectual pursuits [syn: philistine, anti-intellectual, lowbrow]

n 1: (nautical) the forward edge of a fore-and-aft sail that is next to the mast 2: the act of sailing close to the wind v 1: sail close to the wind [syn: luff, point] 2: flap when the wind is blowing equally on both sides; "the sails luffed"

n 1: the sound made by a cat (or any sound resembling this) [syn: meow, mew, miaou, miaow, miaul] v 1: cry like a cat; "the cat meowed" [syn: meow, mew]

n 1: a warm tubular covering for the hands 2: (sports) dropping the ball [syn: fumble, muff] v 1: fail to catch, as of a ball 2: make a mess of, destroy or ruin; "I botched the dinner and we had to eat out"; "the pianist screwed up the difficult passage in the second movement" [syn: botch, bodge, bumble, fumble, botch up, muff, blow, flub, screw up, ball up, spoil, muck up, bungle, fluff, bollix, bollix up, bollocks, bollocks up, bobble, mishandle, louse up, foul up, mess up, fuck up]

adv 1: in the historical present; at this point in the narration of a series of past events; "President Kennedy now calls in the National Guard"; "Washington now decides to cross the Delaware"; "the ship is now listing to port" 2: in these times; "it is solely by their language that the upper classes nowadays are distinguished"- Nancy Mitford; "we now rarely see horse-drawn vehicles on city streets"; "today almost every home has television" [syn: nowadays, now, today] 3: used to preface a command or reproof or request; "now hear this!"; "now pay attention" 4: at the present moment; "goods now on sale"; "the now-aging dictator"; "they are now abroad"; "he is busy at present writing a new novel"; "it could happen any time now" [syn: now, at present] 5: without delay or hesitation; with no time intervening; "he answered immediately"; "found an answer straightaway"; "an official accused of dishonesty should be suspended forthwith"; "Come here now!" [syn: immediately, instantly, straightaway, straight off, directly, now, right away, at once, forthwith, like a shot] 6: (prefatory or transitional) indicates a change of subject or activity; "Now the next problem is..." 7: in the immediate past; "told me just now" n 1: the momentary present; "Now is a good time to do it"; "it worked up to right now"

n 1: front part of a vessel or aircraft; "he pointed the bow of the boat toward the finish line" [syn: bow, fore, prow, stem]

adj 1: gathered for protruding fullness; "puff sleeves" [syn: puff, puffed] n 1: a short light gust of air [syn: puff, puff of air, whiff] 2: a light inflated pastry or puff shell 3: exaggerated praise (as for promotional purposes) 4: bedding made of two layers of cloth filled with stuffing and stitched together [syn: quilt, comforter, comfort, puff] 5: a soft spherical object made from fluffy fibers; for applying powder to the skin [syn: powderpuff, puff] 6: thick cushion used as a seat [syn: ottoman, pouf, pouffe, puff, hassock] 7: a slow inhalation (as of tobacco smoke); "he took a puff on his pipe"; "he took a drag on his cigarette and expelled the smoke slowly" [syn: puff, drag, pull] 8: forceful exhalation through the nose or mouth; "he gave his nose a loud blow"; "he blew out all the candles with a single puff" [syn: blow, puff] v 1: smoke and exhale strongly; "puff a cigar"; "whiff a pipe" [syn: puff, whiff] 2: suck in or take (air); "draw a deep breath"; "draw on a cigarette" [syn: puff, drag, draw] 3: breathe noisily, as when one is exhausted; "The runners reached the finish line, panting heavily" [syn: pant, puff, gasp, heave] 4: make proud or conceited; "The sudden fame puffed her ego" 5: praise extravagantly; "The critics puffed up this Broadway production" [syn: puff, puff up] 6: speak in a blustering or scornful manner; "A puffing kind of man" 7: to swell or cause to enlarge, "Her faced puffed up from the drugs"; "puffed out chests" [syn: puff, puff up, blow up, puff out] 8: blow hard and loudly; "he huffed and puffed as he made his way up the mountain" [syn: puff, huff, chuff]

adv 1: with roughness or violence (`rough' is an informal variant for `roughly'); "he was pushed roughly aside"; "they treated him rough" [syn: roughly, rough] 2: with rough motion as over a rough surface; "ride rough" [syn: roughly, rough] adj 1: having or caused by an irregular surface; "trees with rough bark"; "rough ground"; "rough skin"; "rough blankets"; "his unsmooth face" [syn: rough, unsmooth] [ant: smooth] 2: (of persons or behavior) lacking refinement or finesse; "she was a diamond in the rough"; "rough manners" 3: not quite exact or correct; "the approximate time was 10 o'clock"; "a rough guess"; "a ballpark estimate" [syn: approximate, approximative, rough] 4: full of hardship or trials; "the rocky road to success"; "they were having a rough time" [syn: rocky, rough] 5: violently agitated and turbulent; "boisterous winds and waves"; "the fierce thunders roar me their music"- Ezra Pound; "rough weather"; "rough seas" [syn: boisterous, fierce, rough] 6: unpleasantly harsh or grating in sound; "a gravelly voice" [syn: grating, gravelly, rasping, raspy, rough, scratchy] 7: ready and able to resort to force or violence; "pugnacious spirits...lamented that there was so little prospect of an exhilarating disturbance"- Herman Melville; "they were rough and determined fighting men" [syn: pugnacious, rough] 8: of the margin of a leaf shape; having the edge cut or fringed or scalloped [ant: smooth] 9: causing or characterized by jolts and irregular movements; "a rough ride" [syn: rough, rocky, bumpy, jolty, jolting, jumpy] [ant: smooth] 10: not shaped by cutting or trimming; "an uncut diamond"; "rough gemstones" [syn: uncut, rough] [ant: cut] 11: not carefully or expertly made; "managed to make a crude splint"; "a crude cabin of logs with bark still on them"; "rough carpentry" [syn: crude, rough] 12: not perfected; "a rough draft"; "a few rough sketches" 13: unpleasantly stern; "wild and harsh country full of hot sand and cactus"; "the nomad life is rough and hazardous" [syn: harsh, rough] 14: unkind or cruel or uncivil; "had harsh words"; "a harsh and unlovable old tyrant"; "a rough answer" [syn: harsh, rough] n 1: the part of a golf course bordering the fairway where the grass is not cut short v 1: prepare in preliminary or sketchy form [syn: rough in, rough, rough out]

n 1: an external body part consisting of feathers or hair about the neck of a bird or other animal [syn: frill, ruff] 2: a high tight collar [syn: choker, ruff, ruffle, neck ruff] 3: common Eurasian sandpiper; the male has an erectile neck ruff in breeding season [syn: ruff, Philomachus pugnax] 4: (card games) the act of taking a trick with a trump when unable to follow suit [syn: ruff, trumping] v 1: play a trump [syn: trump, ruff]

n 1: any of various flat-bottomed boats with sloping ends 2: a barge carrying bulk materials in an open hold

n 1: the back side of the neck [syn: nape, scruff, nucha]

n 1: a slipper that has no fitting around the heel [syn: mule, scuff] 2: the act of scuffing (scraping or dragging the feet) v 1: walk without lifting the feet [syn: scuff, drag] 2: get or become scuffed; "These patent leather shoes scuffed" 3: mar by scuffing; "scuffed shoes" 4: poke at with the foot or toe

n 1: necrotic tissue; a mortified or gangrenous part or mass [syn: gangrene, sphacelus, slough] 2: a hollow filled with mud 3: a stagnant swamp (especially as part of a bayou) 4: any outer covering that can be shed or cast off (such as the cast-off skin of a snake) v 1: cast off hair, skin, horn, or feathers; "our dog sheds every Spring" [syn: shed, molt, exuviate, moult, slough]

adj 1: snuff colored; of a greyish to yellowish brown [syn: snuff, snuff-brown, mummy-brown, chukker-brown] n 1: the charred portion of a candlewick 2: a pinch of smokeless tobacco inhaled at a single time 3: finely powdered tobacco for sniffing up the nose 4: sensing an odor by inhaling through the nose [syn: sniff, snuff] v 1: sniff or smell inquiringly [syn: snuff, snuffle] 2: inhale audibly through the nose; "snuff coke"

v 1: make a murmuring sound; "the water was purling" [syn: sough, purl]

n 1: an adult female hog v 1: place (seeds) in or on the ground for future growth; "She sowed sunflower seeds" [syn: sow, seed] 2: introduce into an environment; "sow suspicion or beliefs" 3: place seeds in or on (the ground); "sow the ground with sunflower seeds" [syn: inseminate, sow, sow in]

n 1: the tangible substance that goes into the makeup of a physical object; "coal is a hard black material"; "wheat is the stuff they use to make bread" [syn: material, stuff] 2: miscellaneous unspecified objects; "the trunk was full of stuff" 3: informal terms for personal possessions; "did you take all your clobber?" [syn: stuff, clobber] 4: senseless talk; "don't give me that stuff" [syn: stuff, stuff and nonsense, hooey, poppycock] 5: unspecified qualities required to do or be something; "the stuff of heros"; "you don't have the stuff to be a United States Marine" 6: information in some unspecified form; "it was stuff I had heard before"; "there's good stuff in that book" 7: a critically important or characteristic component; "suspense is the very stuff of narrative" v 1: cram into a cavity; "The child stuffed candy into his pockets" 2: press or force; "Stuff money into an envelope"; "She thrust the letter into his hand" [syn: thrust, stuff, shove, squeeze] 3: obstruct; "My nose is all stuffed"; "Her arteries are blocked" [syn: stuff, lug, choke up, block] [ant: loosen up, unstuff] 4: overeat or eat immodestly; make a pig of oneself; "She stuffed herself at the dinner"; "The kids binged on ice cream" [syn: gorge, ingurgitate, overindulge, glut, englut, stuff, engorge, overgorge, overeat, gormandize, gormandise, gourmandize, binge, pig out, satiate, scarf out] 5: treat with grease, fill, and prepare for mounting; "stuff a bearskin" 6: fill tightly with a material; "stuff a pillow with feathers" 7: fill with a stuffing while cooking; "Have you stuffed the turkey yet?" [syn: farce, stuff]

n 1: the cardinal number that is the product of 10 and 100 [syn: thousand, one thousand, 1000, M, K, chiliad, G, grand, thou, yard]

adj 1: not given to gentleness or sentimentality; "a tough character" [ant: tender] 2: very difficult; severely testing stamina or resolution; "a rugged competitive examination"; "the rugged conditions of frontier life"; "the competition was tough"; "it's a tough life"; "it was a tough job" [syn: rugged, tough] 3: physically toughened; "the tough bottoms of his feet" [syn: tough, toughened] [ant: tender, untoughened] 4: substantially made or constructed; "sturdy steel shelves"; "sturdy canvas"; "a tough all-weather fabric"; "some plastics are as tough as metal" [syn: sturdy, tough] 5: violent and lawless; "the more ruffianly element"; "tough street gangs" [syn: ruffianly, tough] 6: feeling physical discomfort or pain (`tough' is occasionally used colloquially for `bad'); "my throat feels bad"; "she felt bad all over"; "he was feeling tough after a restless night" [syn: bad, tough] 7: resistant to cutting or chewing [ant: tender] 8: unfortunate or hard to bear; "had hard luck"; "a tough break" [syn: hard, tough] 9: making great mental demands; hard to comprehend or solve or believe; "a baffling problem"; "I faced the knotty problem of what to have for breakfast"; "a problematic situation at home" [syn: baffling, elusive, knotty, problematic, problematical, tough] n 1: someone who learned to fight in the streets rather than being formally trained in the sport of boxing [syn: street fighter, tough] 2: an aggressive and violent young criminal [syn: hood, hoodlum, goon, punk, thug, tough, toughie, strong-armer] 3: a cruel and brutal fellow [syn: bully, tough, hooligan, ruffian, roughneck, rowdy, yob, yobo, yobbo]

n 1: hard volcanic rock composed of compacted volcanic ash [syn: tuff, tufa]

n 1: a solemn pledge (to oneself or to another or to a deity) to do something or to behave in a certain manner; "they took vows of poverty" v 1: make a vow; promise; "He vowed never to drink alcohol again" 2: dedicate to a deity by a vow [syn: vow, consecrate]

n 1: a joke that seems extremely funny [syn: belly laugh, sidesplitter, howler, thigh-slapper, scream, wow, riot] v 1: impress greatly; "The speaker wowed the audience"

n 1: the United Nations agency concerned with the international organization of food and agriculture [syn: Food and Agriculture Organization, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, FAO]

n 1: a German courtesy title or form of address for an adult woman

n 1: 10 hao equal 1 dong in Vietnam

n 1: United States editor (1920-1993) [syn: Howe, Irving Howe] 2: Canadian hockey player who holds the record for playing the most games (born 1928) [syn: Howe, Gordie Howe, Gordon Howe] 3: United States feminist who was active in the women's suffrage movement (1819-1910) [syn: Howe, Julia Ward Howe] 4: United States inventor who built early sewing machines and won suits for patent infringement against other manufacturers (including Isaac M. Singer) (1819-1867) [syn: Howe, Elias Howe]

adj 1: of or relating to a member of the Buddhist people inhabiting the Mekong river in Laos and Thailand n 1: a member of a Buddhist people inhabiting the area of the Mekong River in Laos and Thailand and speaking the Lao language; related to the Thais [syn: Lao, Laotian] 2: the Tai language of a Buddhist people living in the area of the Mekong River in Thailand and Laos

n 1: an enzyme that catalyzes the oxidation of many body compounds (e.g., epinephrine and norepinephrine and serotonin) [syn: monoamine oxidase, MAO] 2: Chinese communist leader (1893-1976) [syn: Mao, Mao Zedong, Mao Tsetung]

n 1: a person who surrenders to (or is taken by) the enemy in time of war [syn: prisoner of war, POW]

n 1: an adherent of any branch of Taoism [syn: Taoist, Tao] 2: the ultimate principle of the universe

n 1: the dynasty that ruled much of Manchuria and northeastern China from 947 to 1125 [syn: Liao, Liao dynasty]

n 1: a former Portuguese province on the south coast of China and two islands in the South China Sea; reverted to China in 1999 [syn: Macao, Macau]

n 1: a former Portuguese province on the south coast of China and two islands in the South China Sea; reverted to China in 1999 [syn: Macao, Macau]

n 1: the second largest island of the Philippines at the southern end of the archipelago; mountainous and volcanic

n 1: a farm tool having one or more heavy blades to break the soil and cut a furrow prior to sowing [syn: plow, plough] v 1: to break and turn over earth especially with a plow; "Farmer Jones plowed his east field last week"; "turn the earth in the Spring" [syn: plow, plough, turn] 2: act on verbally or in some form of artistic expression; "This book deals with incest"; "The course covered all of Western Civilization"; "The new book treats the history of China" [syn: cover, treat, handle, plow, deal, address] 3: move in a way resembling that of a plow cutting into or going through the soil; "The ship plowed through the water" [syn: plow, plough]

n 1: martial music with variations; to be played by bagpipes