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alley
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n 1: a narrow street with walls on both sides [syn: alley,
alleyway, back street]
2: a lane down which a bowling ball is rolled toward pins [syn:
bowling alley, alley, skittle alley]
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ally
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n 1: a friendly nation
2: an associate who provides cooperation or assistance; "he's a
good ally in fight" [syn: ally, friend] [ant: enemy,
foe]
v 1: become an ally or associate, as by a treaty or marriage;
"He allied himself with the Communists"
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challis
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n 1: a soft lightweight fabric (usually printed)
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dally
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v 1: behave carelessly or indifferently; "Play about with a
young girl's affection" [syn: dally, toy, play,
flirt]
2: waste time; "Get busy--don't dally!" [syn: dally, dawdle]
3: talk or behave amorously, without serious intentions; "The
guys always try to chat up the new secretaries"; "My husband
never flirts with other women" [syn: chat up, flirt,
dally, butterfly, coquet, coquette, romance,
philander, mash]
4: consider not very seriously; "He is trifling with her"; "She
plays with the thought of moving to Tasmania" [syn: dally,
trifle, play]
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dillydally
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v 1: postpone doing what one should be doing; "He did not want
to write the letter and procrastinated for days" [syn:
procrastinate, stall, drag one's feet, drag one's
heels, shillyshally, dilly-dally, dillydally]
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finale
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n 1: the closing section of a musical composition [syn:
finale, coda]
2: the temporal end; the concluding time; "the stopping point of
each round was signaled by a bell"; "the market was up at the
finish"; "they were playing better at the close of the
season" [syn: stopping point, finale, finis, finish,
last, conclusion, close]
3: the concluding part of any performance [syn: finale,
close, closing curtain, finis]
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galley
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n 1: a large medieval vessel with a single deck propelled by
sails and oars with guns at stern and prow; a complement of
1,000 men; used mainly in the Mediterranean for war and
trading
2: (classical antiquity) a crescent-shaped seagoing vessel
propelled by oars
3: the kitchen area for food preparation on an airliner
4: the area for food preparation on a ship [syn: galley,
ship's galley, caboose, cookhouse]
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kali
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n 1: bushy plant of Old World salt marshes and sea beaches
having prickly leaves; burned to produce a crude soda ash
[syn: saltwort, barilla, glasswort, kali,
kelpwort, Salsola kali, Salsola soda]
2: wife of Siva and malevolent form of Devi; "the black"
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rally
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n 1: a large gathering of people intended to arouse enthusiasm
[syn: rally, mass meeting]
2: the feat of mustering strength for a renewed effort; "he
singled to start a rally in the 9th inning"; "he feared the
rallying of their troops for a counterattack" [syn: rally,
rallying]
3: a marked recovery of strength or spirits during an illness
4: an automobile race run over public roads
5: (sports) an unbroken sequence of several successive strokes;
"after a short rally Connors won the point" [syn: rally,
exchange]
v 1: gather; "drum up support" [syn: beat up, drum up,
rally]
2: call to arms; of military personnel [syn: call up,
mobilize, mobilise, rally] [ant: demobilise,
demobilize, inactivate]
3: gather or bring together; "muster the courage to do
something"; "she rallied her intellect"; "Summon all your
courage" [syn: muster, rally, summon, come up,
muster up]
4: return to a former condition; "The jilted lover soon rallied
and found new friends"; "The stock market rallied" [syn:
rally, rebound]
5: harass with persistent criticism or carping; "The children
teased the new teacher"; "Don't ride me so hard over my
failure"; "His fellow workers razzed him when he wore a
jacket and tie" [syn: tease, razz, rag, cod,
tantalize, tantalise, bait, taunt, twit, rally,
ride]
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sally
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n 1: witty remark [syn: wisecrack, crack, sally, quip]
2: a military action in which besieged troops burst forth from
their position [syn: sortie, sally]
3: a venture off the beaten path; "a sally into the wide world
beyond his home" [syn: sally, sallying forth]
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tally
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n 1: a score in baseball made by a runner touching all four
bases safely; "the Yankees scored 3 runs in the bottom of
the 9th"; "their first tally came in the 3rd inning" [syn:
run, tally]
2: a bill for an amount due [syn: reckoning, tally]
3: the act of counting; reciting numbers in ascending order;
"the counting continued for several hours" [syn: count,
counting, numeration, enumeration, reckoning,
tally]
v 1: be compatible, similar or consistent; coincide in their
characteristics; "The two stories don't agree in many
details"; "The handwriting checks with the signature on the
check"; "The suspect's fingerprints don't match those on
the gun" [syn: match, fit, correspond, check,
jibe, gibe, tally, agree] [ant: disaccord,
disagree, discord]
2: gain points in a game; "The home team scored many times"; "He
hit a home run"; "He hit .300 in the past season" [syn:
score, hit, tally, rack up]
3: keep score, as in games [syn: tally, chalk up]
4: determine the sum of; "Add all the people in this town to
those of the neighboring town" [syn: total, tot, tot
up, sum, sum up, summate, tote up, add, add
together, tally, add up]
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valley
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n 1: a long depression in the surface of the land that usually
contains a river [syn: valley, vale]
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verbally
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adv 1: as a verb; "he had a habit of using nouns verbally"
2: by means of language; "verbally expressive"
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halle
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n 1: a city in the Saxony region of Germany on the Saale River;
a member of the Hanseatic League during the 13th and 14th
centuries [syn: Halle, Halle-an-der-Saale]
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cali
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n 1: city in southwestern Colombia in a rich agricultural area
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mexicali
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n 1: a city in northwestern Mexico near the California border
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bally
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adj 1: informal intensifiers; "what a bally (or blinking)
nuisance"; "a bloody fool"; "a crashing bore"; "you
flaming idiot" [syn: bally(a), blinking(a),
bloody(a), blooming(a), crashing(a), flaming(a),
fucking(a)]
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lally
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n 1: support column consisting of a steel cylinder filled with
concrete [syn: lally, lally column]
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braley
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bralley
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devalle
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graley
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scally
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stahley
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stahly
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straley
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vallely
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cavalli
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delvalle
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mccalley
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mcgalley
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mcnalley
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mcnally
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ranalli
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vitale
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vitaly
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callie
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alie
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alli
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allie
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balli
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cally
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dalley
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galli
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hally
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lalley
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lalli
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malley
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mally
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nalley
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nally
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raley
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sallee
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salley
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sallie
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shali
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talley
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vallee
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valli
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whalley
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teocalli
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