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babbling
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n 1: gibberish resembling the sounds of a baby [syn: babble,
babbling, lallation]
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crackling
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n 1: the residue that remains after animal fat has been rendered
[syn: greaves, crackling]
2: the sharp sound of snapping noises [syn: crackle,
crackling, crepitation]
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kindling
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n 1: material for starting a fire [syn: kindling, tinder,
touchwood, spunk, punk]
2: the act of setting something on fire [syn: ignition,
firing, lighting, kindling, inflammation]
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mailing
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n 1: mail sent by a sender at one time; "the candidate sent out
three large mailings"
2: the transmission of a letter; "the postmark indicates the
time of mailing" [syn: mailing, posting]
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marbling
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n 1: the intermixture of fat and lean in a cut of meat
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middling
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adv 1: to a moderately sufficient extent or degree; "pretty
big"; "pretty bad"; "jolly decent of him"; "the shoes are
priced reasonably"; "he is fairly clever with computers"
[syn: reasonably, moderately, pretty, jolly,
somewhat, fairly, middling, passably] [ant:
immoderately, unreasonably]
adj 1: lacking exceptional quality or ability; "a novel of
average merit"; "only a fair performance of the sonata";
"in fair health"; "the caliber of the students has gone
from mediocre to above average"; "the performance was
middling at best" [syn: average, fair, mediocre,
middling]
n 1: any commodity of intermediate quality or size (especially
when coarse particles of ground wheat are mixed with bran)
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nestling
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n 1: young bird not yet fledged [syn: nestling, baby bird]
2: a young person of either sex; "she writes books for
children"; "they're just kids"; "`tiddler' is a British term
for youngster" [syn: child, kid, youngster, minor,
shaver, nipper, small fry, tiddler, tike, tyke,
fry, nestling]
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nursling
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n 1: an infant considered in relation to its nurse [syn:
nursling, nurseling, suckling]
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paling
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n 1: a fence made of upright pickets [syn: picket fence,
paling]
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peeling
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n 1: loss of bits of outer skin by peeling or shedding or coming
off in scales [syn: desquamation, peeling, shedding]
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piffling
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adj 1: (informal) small and of little importance; "a fiddling
sum of money"; "a footling gesture"; "our worries are
lilliputian compared with those of countries that are at
war"; "a little (or small) matter"; "a dispute over
niggling details"; "limited to petty enterprises";
"piffling efforts"; "giving a police officer a free meal
may be against the law, but it seems to be a picayune
infraction" [syn: fiddling, footling, lilliputian,
little, niggling, piddling, piffling, petty,
picayune, trivial]
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piling
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n 1: a column of wood or steel or concrete that is driven into
the ground to provide support for a structure [syn: pile,
spile, piling, stilt]
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puzzling
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adj 1: not clear to the understanding; "I didn't grasp the
meaning of that enigmatic comment until much later";
"prophetic texts so enigmatic that their meaning has been
disputed for centuries" [syn: enigmatic, enigmatical,
puzzling]
2: lacking clarity of meaning; causing confusion or perplexity;
"sent confusing signals to Iraq"; "perplexing to someone who
knew nothing about it"; "a puzzling statement" [syn:
confusing, perplexing, puzzling]
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quisling
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n 1: someone who collaborates with an enemy occupying force
[syn: collaborator, collaborationist, quisling]
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railing
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n 1: a barrier consisting of a horizontal bar and supports [syn:
railing, rail]
2: material for making rails or rails collectively
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ruling
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adj 1: exercising power or authority [syn: regnant,
reigning, ruling]
n 1: the reason for a court's judgment (as opposed to the
decision itself) [syn: opinion, ruling]
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rustling
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adj 1: characterized by soft sounds; "a murmurous brook"; "a
soughing wind in the pines"; "a slow sad susurrous rustle
like the wind fingering the pines"- R.P.Warren [syn:
murmurous, rustling, soughing, susurrous]
n 1: the stealing of cattle
2: a light noise, like the noise of silk clothing or leaves
blowing in the wind [syn: rustle, rustling, whisper,
whispering]
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sailing
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n 1: the work of a sailor [syn: seafaring, navigation,
sailing]
2: riding in a sailboat
3: the departure of a vessel from a port
4: the activity of flying a glider [syn: glide, gliding,
sailplaning, soaring, sailing]
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sampling
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n 1: (statistics) the selection of a suitable sample for study
2: items selected at random from a population and used to test
hypotheses about the population [syn: sample distribution,
sample, sampling]
3: measurement at regular intervals of the amplitude of a
varying waveform (in order to convert it to digital form)
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sapling
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n 1: young tree
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scantling
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n 1: an upright in house framing [syn: scantling, stud]
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schilling
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n 1: formerly the basic unit of money in Austria [syn:
schilling, Austrian schilling]
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schooling
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n 1: the act of teaching at school
2: the process of being formally educated at a school; "what
will you do when you finish school?" [syn: school,
schooling]
3: the training of an animal (especially the training of a horse
for dressage)
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seedling
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n 1: young plant or tree grown from a seed
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stripling
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n 1: a juvenile between the onset of puberty and maturity [syn:
adolescent, stripling, teenager, teen]
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tinkling
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adj 1: like the short high ringing sound of a small bell;
"sounding brass and a tinkling cymbal" [syn: tinkling,
tinkly]
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veiling
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n 1: a net of transparent fabric with a loose open weave [syn:
gauze, netting, veiling]
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wailing
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adj 1: vocally expressing grief or sorrow or resembling such
expression; "lamenting sinners"; "wailing mourners"; "the
wailing wind"; "wailful bagpipes"; "tangle her desires
with wailful sonnets"- Shakespeare [syn: lamenting,
wailing, wailful]
n 1: loud cries made while weeping [syn: wailing, bawling]
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battling
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cabling
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cackling
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cradling
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dabbling
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mantling
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scribbling
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