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ain
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adj 1: belonging to or on behalf of a specified person
(especially yourself); preceded by a possessive; "for
your own use"; "do your own thing"; "she makes her own
clothes"; "`ain' is Scottish" [syn: own(a), ain]
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balletomane
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n 1: a ballet enthusiast
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demesne
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n 1: extensive landed property (especially in the country)
retained by the owner for his own use; "the family owned a
large estate on Long Island" [syn: estate, land,
landed estate, acres, demesne]
2: territory over which rule or control is exercised; "his
domain extended into Europe"; "he made it the law of the
land" [syn: domain, demesne, land]
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domain
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n 1: a particular environment or walk of life; "his social
sphere is limited"; "it was a closed area of employment";
"he's out of my orbit" [syn: sphere, domain, area,
orbit, field, arena]
2: territory over which rule or control is exercised; "his
domain extended into Europe"; "he made it the law of the
land" [syn: domain, demesne, land]
3: (mathematics) the set of values of the independent variable
for which a function is defined [syn: domain, domain of a
function]
4: people in general; especially a distinctive group of people
with some shared interest; "the Western world" [syn: world,
domain]
5: the content of a particular field of knowledge [syn:
knowledge domain, knowledge base, domain]
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inhumane
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adj 1: lacking and reflecting lack of pity or compassion;
"humans are innately inhumane; this explains much of the
misery and suffering in the world"; "biological weapons
are considered too inhumane to be used" [ant: humane]
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legerdemain
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n 1: an illusory feat; considered magical by naive observers
[syn: magic trick, conjuring trick, trick, magic,
legerdemain, conjuration, thaumaturgy, illusion,
deception]
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ptomaine
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n 1: any of various amines (such as putrescine or cadaverine)
formed by the action of putrefactive bacteria [syn:
ptomaine, ptomain]
2: a term for food poisoning that is no longer in scientific
use; food poisoning was once thought to be caused by
ingesting ptomaines [syn: ptomaine, ptomaine poisoning]
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remain
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v 1: stay the same; remain in a certain state; "The dress
remained wet after repeated attempts to dry it"; "rest
assured"; "stay alone"; "He remained unmoved by her tears";
"The bad weather continued for another week" [syn: stay,
remain, rest] [ant: change]
2: continue in a place, position, or situation; "After
graduation, she stayed on in Cambridge as a student adviser";
"Stay with me, please"; "despite student protests, he
remained Dean for another year"; "She continued as deputy
mayor for another year" [syn: stay, stay on, continue,
remain]
3: be left; of persons, questions, problems, results, evidence,
etc.; "There remains the question of who pulled the trigger";
"Carter remains the only President in recent history under
whose Presidency the U.S. did not fight a war"
4: stay behind; "The smell stayed in the room"; "The hostility
remained long after they made up" [syn: persist, remain,
stay]
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romaine
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n 1: lettuce with long dark-green leaves in a loosely packed
elongated head [syn: cos, cos lettuce, romaine,
romaine lettuce]
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ane
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adj 1: used of a single unit or thing; not two or more; "`ane'
is Scottish" [syn: one, 1, i, ane]
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champaign
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n 1: extensive tract of level open land; "they emerged from the
woods onto a vast open plain"; "he longed for the fields of
his youth" [syn: plain, field, champaign]
2: a university town in east central Illinois adjoining Urbana
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champlain
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n 1: French explorer in Nova Scotia who established a settlement
on the site of modern Quebec (1567-1635) [syn: Champlain,
Samuel de Champlain]
2: a lake in northeastern New York, northwestern Vermont and
southern Quebec; site of many battles in the French and
Indian War and in the American Revolution and in the War of
1812 [syn: Lake Champlain, Champlain]
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amain
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adv 1: at full speed; with great haste; "the children ran down
the hill amain"
2: with all your strength; "he pulled the ropes amain"
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mortmain
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n 1: real property held inalienably (as by an ecclesiastical
corporation) [syn: mortmain, dead hand]
2: the oppressive influence of past events or decisions [syn:
dead hand, dead hand of the past, mortmain]
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moulmein
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n 1: a port city of southern Myanmar on the Gulf of Martaban
[syn: Moulmein, Mawlamyine]
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charlemagne
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n 1: king of the Franks and Holy Roman Emperor; conqueror of the
Lombards and Saxons (742-814) [syn: Charlemagne,
Carolus, Charles, Charles I, Charles the Great]
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pearmain
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n 1: any of several varieties of apples with red skins
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aine
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ayn
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beauchaine
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biscayne
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brattain
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buntain
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charlayne
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charmain
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chastain
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costain
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courchaine
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decrane
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domaine
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duchaine
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dumaine
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elaine
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germaine
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jermaine
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aisne
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alamein
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