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bandy
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adj 1: have legs that curve outward at the knees [syn: bandy,
bandy-legged, bowed, bowleg, bowlegged]
v 1: toss or strike a ball back and forth
2: exchange blows
3: discuss lightly; "We bandied around these difficult
questions" [syn: bandy, kick around]
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brandy
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n 1: distilled from wine or fermented fruit juice
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candy
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n 1: a rich sweet made of flavored sugar and often combined with
fruit or nuts [syn: candy, confect]
v 1: coat with something sweet, such as a hard sugar glaze [syn:
sugarcoat, glaze, candy]
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conferee
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n 1: a person on whom something is bestowed; "six honorary were
conferred; the conferees were..."
2: a member of a conference
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curie
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n 1: a unit of radioactivity equal to the amount of a
radioactive isotope that decays at the rate of
37,000,000,000 disintegrations per second [syn: curie,
Ci]
2: French physicist; husband of Marie Curie (1859-1906) [syn:
Curie, Pierre Curie]
3: French chemist (born in Poland) who won two Nobel prizes; one
(with her husband and Henri Becquerel) for research on
radioactivity and another for her discovery of radium and
polonium (1867-1934) [syn: Curie, Marie Curie, Madame
Curie, Marya Sklodowska]
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dandy
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adj 1: very good; "he did a bully job"; "a neat sports car";
"had a great time at the party"; "you look simply
smashing" [syn: bang-up, bully, corking,
cracking, dandy, great, groovy, keen, neat,
nifty, not bad(p), peachy, slap-up, swell,
smashing]
n 1: a man who is much concerned with his dress and appearance
[syn: dandy, dude, fop, gallant, sheik, beau,
swell, fashion plate, clotheshorse]
2: a sailing vessel with two masts; a small mizzen is aft of the
rudderpost [syn: yawl, dandy]
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de
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n 1: a Mid-Atlantic state; one of the original 13 colonies [syn:
Delaware, Diamond State, First State, DE]
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debris
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n 1: the remains of something that has been destroyed or broken
up [syn: debris, dust, junk, rubble, detritus]
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decree
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n 1: a legally binding command or decision entered on the court
record (as if issued by a court or judge); "a friend in New
Mexico said that the order caused no trouble out there"
[syn: decree, edict, fiat, order, rescript]
v 1: issue a decree; "The King only can decree"
2: decide with authority; "The King decreed that all firstborn
males should be killed" [syn: rule, decree]
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grandee
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n 1: a nobleman of highest rank in Spain or Portugal
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handy
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adj 1: easy to reach; "found a handy spot for the can opener"
[syn: handy, ready to hand(p)]
2: easy to use; "a handy gadget"
3: skillful with the hands; "handy with an axe"
n 1: United States blues musician who transcribed and published
traditional blues music (1873-1958) [syn: Handy, W. C.
Handy, William Christopher Handy]
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randy
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adj 1: feeling great sexual desire; "feeling horny" [syn:
aroused, horny, randy, ruttish, steamy, turned
on(p)]
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sandy
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adj 1: of hair color; pale yellowish to yellowish brown; "flaxen
locks" [syn: flaxen, sandy]
2: resembling or containing or abounding in sand; or growing in
sandy areas; "arenaceous limestone"; "arenaceous grasses"
[syn: arenaceous, sandy, sandlike] [ant:
argillaceous, clayey]
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trainee
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n 1: someone who is being trained
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cree
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n 1: a member of an Algonquian people living in central Canada
2: the Algonquian language spoken by the Cree
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d
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adj 1: denoting a quantity consisting of 500 items or units
[syn: five hundred, 500, d]
n 1: a fat-soluble vitamin that prevents rickets [syn: vitamin
D, calciferol, viosterol, ergocalciferol,
cholecalciferol, D]
2: the cardinal number that is the product of one hundred and
five [syn: five hundred, 500, D]
3: the 4th letter of the Roman alphabet [syn: D, d]
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dea
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n 1: federal agency responsible for enforcing laws and
regulations governing narcotics and controlled substances;
goal is to immobilize drug trafficking organizations [syn:
Drug Enforcement Administration, Drug Enforcement
Agency, DEA]
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e
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n 1: a fat-soluble vitamin that is essential for normal
reproduction; an important antioxidant that neutralizes
free radicals in the body [syn: vitamin E, tocopherol,
E]
2: a radioactive transuranic element produced by bombarding
plutonium with neutrons [syn: einsteinium, Es, E,
atomic number 99]
3: the cardinal compass point that is at 90 degrees [syn:
east, due east, eastward, E]
4: the base of the natural system of logarithms; approximately
equal to 2.718282...
5: the 5th letter of the Roman alphabet [syn: E, e]
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ee
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n 1: the branch of engineering science that studies the uses of
electricity and the equipment for power generation and
distribution and the control of machines and communication
[syn: electrical engineering, EE]
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ki
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n 1: the circulating life energy that in Chinese philosophy is
thought to be inherent in all things; in traditional
Chinese medicine the balance of negative and positive forms
in the body is believed to be essential for good health
[syn: qi, chi, ch'i, ki]
2: goddess personifying earth; counterpart of Akkadian Aruru
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leigh
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n 1: English film actress (1913-1967) [syn: Leigh, Vivien
Leigh]
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mi
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n 1: destruction of heart tissue resulting from obstruction of
the blood supply to the heart muscle [syn: myocardial
infarction, myocardial infarct, MI]
2: a former British unit of length equivalent to 6,080 feet
(1,853.184 meters); 800 feet longer than a statute mile [syn:
nautical mile, naut mi, mile, mi, geographical
mile, Admiralty mile]
3: a unit of length used in navigation; exactly 1,852 meters;
historically based on the distance spanned by one minute of
arc in latitude [syn: nautical mile, mile, mi, naut
mi, knot, international nautical mile, air mile]
4: a unit of length equal to 1,760 yards or 5,280 feet; exactly
1609.344 meters [syn: mile, statute mile, stat mi,
land mile, international mile, mi]
5: a midwestern state in north central United States in the
Great Lakes region [syn: Michigan, Wolverine State,
Great Lakes State, MI]
6: the government agency in the United Kingdom that is
responsible for internal security and counterintelligence on
British territory [syn: Security Service, MI, Military
Intelligence Section 5]
7: the government agency in the United Kingdom that is
responsible for internal security and counterintelligence
overseas [syn: Secret Intelligence Service, MI, Military
Intelligence Section 6]
8: the syllable naming the third (mediant) note of any major
scale in solmization
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mt
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n 1: a radioactive transuranic element [syn: meitnerium, Mt,
element 109, atomic number 109]
2: a unit of weight equivalent to 1000 kilograms [syn: metric
ton, MT, tonne, t]
3: a state in northwestern United States on the Canadian border
[syn: Montana, Treasure State, MT]
4: the use of computers to translate from one language to
another [syn: machine translation, MT]
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ne
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n 1: a colorless odorless gaseous element that give a red glow
in a vacuum tube; one of the six inert gasses; occurs in
the air in small amounts [syn: neon, Ne, atomic number
10]
2: the compass point midway between north and east; at 45
degrees [syn: northeast, nor'-east, northeastward,
NE]
3: a midwestern state on the Great Plains [syn: Nebraska,
Cornhusker State, NE]
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ngwee
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n 1: 100 ngwee equal 1 kwacha in Zambia
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ni
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n 1: a hard malleable ductile silvery metallic element that is
resistant to corrosion; used in alloys; occurs in
pentlandite and smaltite and garnierite and millerite [syn:
nickel, Ni, atomic number 28]
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p
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n 1: a multivalent nonmetallic element of the nitrogen family
that occurs commonly in inorganic phosphate rocks and as
organic phosphates in all living cells; is highly reactive
and occurs in several allotropic forms [syn: phosphorus,
P, atomic number 15]
2: the 16th letter of the Roman alphabet [syn: P, p]
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sep
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n 1: the month following August and preceding October [syn:
September, Sep, Sept]
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capri
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n 1: an island (part of Campania) in the Bay of Naples in
southern Italy; a tourist attraction noted for beautiful
scenery
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chablis
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n 1: a town in north central France noted for white Burgundy
wines
2: dry white table wine of Chablis, France or a wine resembling
it [syn: Chablis, white Burgundy]
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ranee
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n 1: (the feminine of raja) a Hindu princess or the wife of a
raja [syn: rani, ranee]
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shandy
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n 1: a drink made of beer and lemonade [syn: shandygaff,
shandy]
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tandy
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n 1: United States actress (born in England) who made many stage
appearances, often with her husband Hume Cronyn (1909-1994)
[syn: Tandy, Jessica Tandy]
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kandy
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n 1: a city of central Sri Lanka that was the last capital of
the ancient kings of Ceylon; a resort and religious center
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operandi
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andy
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cie
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dee
0
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di
0
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candee
0
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brandi
0
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grandi
0
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grandy
0
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zandi
0
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brigandi
0
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alibrandi
0
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andie
0
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gandee
0
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gandy
0
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landi
0
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landy
0
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mandie
0
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mandy
0
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randi
0
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sandi
0
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sandie
0
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zandy
0