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apple
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n 1: fruit with red or yellow or green skin and sweet to tart
crisp whitish flesh
2: native Eurasian tree widely cultivated in many varieties for
its firm rounded edible fruits [syn: apple, orchard apple
tree, Malus pumila]
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astraddle
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adv 1: with one leg on each side; "she sat astride the chair"
[syn: astride, astraddle]
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babble
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n 1: gibberish resembling the sounds of a baby [syn: babble,
babbling, lallation]
v 1: utter meaningless sounds, like a baby, or utter in an
incoherent way; "The old man is only babbling--don't pay
attention"
2: to talk foolishly; "The two women babbled and crooned at the
baby" [syn: babble, blather, smatter, blether,
blither]
3: flow in an irregular current with a bubbling noise; "babbling
brooks" [syn: ripple, babble, guggle, burble,
bubble, gurgle]
4: divulge confidential information or secrets; "Be careful--his
secretary talks" [syn: spill the beans, let the cat out of
the bag, talk, tattle, blab, peach, babble,
sing, babble out, blab out] [ant: keep one's mouth
shut, keep quiet, shut one's mouth]
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bagel
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n 1: (Yiddish) glazed yeast-raised doughnut-shaped roll with
hard crust [syn: bagel, beigel]
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battle
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n 1: a hostile meeting of opposing military forces in the course
of a war; "Grant won a decisive victory in the battle of
Chickamauga"; "he lost his romantic ideas about war when he
got into a real engagement" [syn: battle, conflict,
fight, engagement]
2: an energetic attempt to achieve something; "getting through
the crowd was a real struggle"; "he fought a battle for
recognition" [syn: struggle, battle]
3: an open clash between two opposing groups (or individuals);
"the harder the conflict the more glorious the triumph"--
Thomas Paine; "police tried to control the battle between the
pro- and anti-abortion mobs" [syn: conflict, struggle,
battle]
v 1: battle or contend against in or as if in a battle; "The
Kurds are combating Iraqi troops in Northern Iraq"; "We
must combat the prejudices against other races"; "they
battled over the budget" [syn: battle, combat]
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bedraggle
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v 1: make wet and dirty, as from rain [syn: bedraggle,
draggle]
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brattle
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v 1: make a rattling sound; "clattering dishes" [syn: clatter,
clack, brattle]
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cackle
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n 1: the sound made by a hen after laying an egg
2: noisy talk [syn: yak, yack, yakety-yak, chatter,
cackle]
3: a loud laugh suggestive of a hen's cackle
v 1: talk or utter in a cackling manner; "The women cackled when
they saw the movie star step out of the limousine"
2: squawk shrilly and loudly, characteristic of hens
3: emit a loud, unpleasant kind of laughing
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cattle
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n 1: domesticated bovine animals as a group regardless of sex or
age; "so many head of cattle"; "wait till the cows come
home"; "seven thin and ill-favored kine"- Bible; "a team of
oxen" [syn: cattle, cows, kine, oxen, Bos taurus]
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chapel
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n 1: a place of worship that has its own altar
2: a service conducted in a place of worship that has its own
altar; "he was late for chapel" [syn: chapel service,
chapel]
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chattel
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n 1: personal as opposed to real property; any tangible movable
property (furniture or domestic animals or a car etc) [syn:
chattel, personal chattel, movable]
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crackle
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adj 1: having the surface decorated with a network of fine
cracks, as in crackleware; "a crackle glaze"
n 1: the sharp sound of snapping noises [syn: crackle,
crackling, crepitation]
2: glazed china with a network of fine cracks on the surface
[syn: crackle, crackleware, crackle china]
v 1: make a crackling sound; "My Rice Krispies crackled in the
bowl" [syn: crepitate, crackle]
2: make a crushing noise; "his shoes were crunching on the
gravel" [syn: crunch, scranch, scraunch, crackle]
3: to become, or to cause to become, covered with a network of
small cracks; "The blazing sun crackled the desert sand"
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cull
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n 1: the person or thing that is rejected or set aside as
inferior in quality [syn: cull, reject]
v 1: remove something that has been rejected; "cull the sick
members of the herd"
2: look for and gather; "pick mushrooms"; "pick flowers" [syn:
pick, pluck, cull]
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dabble
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v 1: dip a foot or hand briefly into a liquid
2: play in or as if in water, as of small children [syn:
dabble, paddle, splash around]
3: work with in an amateurish manner; "She dabbles in
astronomy"; "He plays around with investments but he never
makes any money" [syn: dabble, smatter, play around]
4: bob forward and under so as to feed off the bottom of a body
of water; "dabbling ducks"
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dapple
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n 1: a small contrasting part of something; "a bald spot"; "a
leopard's spots"; "a patch of clouds"; "patches of thin
ice"; "a fleck of red" [syn: spot, speckle, dapple,
patch, fleck, maculation]
v 1: colour with streaks or blotches of different shades [syn:
mottle, dapple, cloud]
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grackle
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n 1: glossy black Asiatic starling often taught to mimic speech
[syn: hill myna, Indian grackle, grackle, Gracula
religiosa]
2: long-tailed American blackbird having iridescent black
plumage [syn: grackle, crow blackbird]
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hackle
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n 1: long slender feather on the necks of e.g. turkeys and
pheasants
v 1: comb with a heckle; "heckle hemp or flax" [syn: heckle,
hackle, hatchel]
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jackal
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n 1: Old World nocturnal canine mammal closely related to the
dog; smaller than a wolf; sometimes hunts in a pack but
usually singly or as a member of a pair [syn: jackal,
Canis aureus]
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made
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adj 1: produced by a manufacturing process; "bought some made
goods at the local store; rope and nails"
2: (of a bed) having the sheets and blankets set in order; "a
neatly made bed" [ant: unmade]
3: successful or assured of success; "now I am a made man
forever"- Christopher Marlowe
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ramshackle
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adj 1: in deplorable condition; "a street of bedraggled
tenements"; "a broken-down fence"; "a ramshackle old
pier"; "a tumble-down shack" [syn: bedraggled, broken-
down, derelict, dilapidated, ramshackle,
tatterdemalion, tumble-down]
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shackle
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n 1: a restraint that confines or restricts freedom (especially
something used to tie down or restrain a prisoner) [syn:
shackle, bond, hamper, trammel]
2: a U-shaped bar; the open end can be passed through chain
links and closed with a bar
v 1: bind the arms of [syn: pinion, shackle]
2: restrain with fetters [syn: fetter, shackle]
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spackle
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n 1: powder (containing gypsum plaster and glue) that when mixed
with water forms a plastic paste used to fill cracks and
holes in plaster [syn: spackle, spackling compound]
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tabernacle
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n 1: the Mormon temple [syn: Tabernacle, Mormon Tabernacle]
2: (Judaism) a portable sanctuary in which the Jews carried the
Ark of the Covenant on their exodus
3: (Judaism) the place of worship for a Jewish congregation
[syn: synagogue, temple, tabernacle]
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tackle
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n 1: the person who plays that position on a football team; "the
right tackle is a straight A student"
2: gear consisting of ropes etc. supporting a ship's masts and
sails [syn: rigging, tackle]
3: gear used in fishing [syn: fishing gear, tackle, fishing
tackle, fishing rig, rig]
4: (American football) a position on the line of scrimmage; "it
takes a big man to play tackle"
5: (American football) grasping an opposing player with the
intention of stopping by throwing to the ground
v 1: accept as a challenge; "I'll tackle this difficult task"
[syn: undertake, tackle, take on]
2: put a harness; "harness the horse" [syn: harness, tackle]
[ant: unharness]
3: seize and throw down an opponent player, who usually carries
the ball
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cul
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n 1: a passage with access only at one end [syn: cul, cul de
sac, dead end]
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mackle
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n 1: a printed impression that is blurred or doubled
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unshackle
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achill
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hackel
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hackl
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jackel
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jakel
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kachel
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mackall
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mackel
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racal
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rachal
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yackel
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yakel
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