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belongings
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n 1: something owned; any tangible or intangible possession that
is owned by someone; "that hat is my property"; "he is a
man of property"; [syn: property, belongings,
holding]
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dickens
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n 1: a word used in exclamations of confusion; "what the devil";
"the deuce with it"; "the dickens you say" [syn: devil,
deuce, dickens]
2: English writer whose novels depicted and criticized social
injustice (1812-1870) [syn: Dickens, Charles Dickens,
Charles John Huffam Dickens]
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earnings
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n 1: the excess of revenues over outlays in a given period of
time (including depreciation and other non-cash expenses)
[syn: net income, net, net profit, lucre, profit,
profits, earnings]
2: something that remunerates; "wages were paid by check"; "he
wasted his pay on drink"; "they saved a quarter of all their
earnings" [syn: wage, pay, earnings, remuneration,
salary]
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feelings
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n 1: emotional or moral sensitivity (especially in relation to
personal principles or dignity); "the remark hurt his
feelings"
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fixings
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n 1: food that is a component of a mixture in cooking; "the
recipe lists all the fixings for a salad" [syn:
ingredient, fixings]
2: the accessories that normally accompany (something or some
activity); "an elaborate formal dinner with all the fixings";
"he bought a Christmas tree and trimmings to decorate it"
[syn: fixings, trimmings]
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gubbins
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n 1: something unspecified whose name is either forgotten or not
known; "she eased the ball-shaped doodad back into its
socket"; "there may be some great new gizmo around the
corner that you will want to use" [syn: doodad,
doohickey, doojigger, gimmick, gizmo, gismo,
gubbins, thingamabob, thingumabob, thingmabob,
thingamajig, thingumajig, thingmajig, thingummy,
whatchamacallit, whatchamacallum, whatsis, widget]
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heartstrings
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n 1: your deepest feelings of love and compassion; "many
adoption cases tug at the heartstrings"
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hustings
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n 1: the activities involved in political campaigning
(especially speech making)
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matins
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n 1: the first canonical hour; at daybreak [syn: matins,
morning prayer]
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muggins
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n 1: a person who lacks good judgment [syn: fool, sap,
saphead, muggins, tomfool]
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pickings
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n 1: the act of someone who picks up or takes something; "the
pickings were easy"; "clothing could be had for the taking"
[syn: pickings, taking]
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proceedings
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n 1: (law) the institution of a sequence of steps by which legal
judgments are invoked [syn: proceeding, legal
proceeding, proceedings]
2: a written account of what transpired at a meeting [syn:
minutes, proceedings, transactions]
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tidings
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n 1: information about recent and important events; "they
awaited news of the outcome" [syn: news, intelligence,
tidings, word]
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trappings
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n 1: (usually plural) accessory wearing apparel [syn:
furnishing, trappings]
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robbins
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n 1: United States choreographer who brought human emotion to
classical ballet and spirited reality to Broadway musicals
(1918-1998) [syn: Robbins, Jerome Robbins]
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huggins
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n 1: English astronomer who pioneered spectroscopic analysis in
astronomy and who discovered the red shift (1824-1910)
[syn: Huggins, Sir William Huggins]
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hutchins
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n 1: United States educator who was president of the University
of Chicago (1899-1977) [syn: Hutchins, Robert Maynard
Hutchins]
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cummings
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n 1: United States writer noted for his typographically
eccentric poetry (1894-1962) [syn: cummings, e. e.
cummings, Edward Estlin Cummings]
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hastings
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n 1: United States architect who formed and important
architectural firm with John Merven Carrere (1860-1929)
[syn: Hastings, Thomas Hastings]
2: a town in East Sussex just to the south of the place where
the battle of Hastings took place
3: the decisive battle in which William the Conqueror (duke of
Normandy) defeated the Saxons under Harold II (1066) and thus
left England open for the Norman Conquest [syn: Hastings,
battle of Hastings]
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hopkins
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n 1: United States educator and theologian (1802-1887) [syn:
Hopkins, Mark Hopkins]
2: United States financier and philanthropist who left money to
found the university and hospital that bear his name in
Baltimore (1795-1873) [syn: Hopkins, Johns Hopkins]
3: English poet (1844-1889) [syn: Hopkins, Gerard Manley
Hopkins]
4: English biochemist who did pioneering work that led to the
discovery of vitamins (1861-1947) [syn: Hopkins, Sir
Frederick Gowland Hopkins]
5: Welsh film actor (born in 1937) [syn: Hopkins, Anthony
Hopkins, Sir Anthony Hopkins, Sir Anthony Philip
Hopkins]
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wilkins
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n 1: United States civil rights leader (1901-1981) [syn:
Wilkins, Roy Wilkins]
2: Australian who was the first to explore the Arctic by
airplane (1888-1958) [syn: Wilkins, George Hubert
Wilkins]
3: English biochemist who helped discover the structure of DNA
(1916-2004) [syn: Wilkins, Maurice Wilkins, Maurice Hugh
Frederick Wilkins]
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chitlins
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n 1: small intestines of hogs prepared as food [syn:
chitterlings, chitlins, chitlings]
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beestings
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combings
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comings
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filings
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furnishings
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galligaskins
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gleanings
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imaginings
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juggins
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robins
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shortcomings
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springs
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martins
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akins
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eakins
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adkins
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hutchings
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binns
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fleshings
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gittins
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higgins
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wiggins
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atkins
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mullins
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underthings
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rawlins
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arisings
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hollins
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rollins
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rawlings
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jennings
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dawkins
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jenkins
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elkins
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blevins
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watkins
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tompkins
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