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bastinado
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n 1: a cudgel used to give someone a beating on the soles of the
feet
2: a form of torture in which the soles of the feet are beaten
with whips or cudgels [syn: bastinado, falanga]
v 1: beat somebody on the soles of the feet
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bushido
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n 1: traditional code of the Japanese samurai which stressed
courage and loyalty and self-discipline and simple living
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credo
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n 1: any system of principles or beliefs [syn: creed, credo]
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dado
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n 1: panel forming the lower part of an interior wall when it is
finished differently from the rest of the wall [syn:
wainscot, dado]
2: the section of a pedestal between the base and the surbase
3: a rectangular groove cut into a board so that another piece
can fit into it
v 1: provide with a dado; "The owners wanted to dado their
dining room"
2: cut a dado into or fit into a dado
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libido
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n 1: (psychoanalysis) a Freudian term for sexual urge or desire
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lido
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n 1: a recreational facility including a swimming pool for water
sports
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tornado
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n 1: a localized and violently destructive windstorm occurring
over land characterized by a funnel-shaped cloud extending
toward the ground [syn: tornado, twister]
2: a purified and potent form of cocaine that is smoked rather
than snorted; highly addictive [syn: crack, crack
cocaine, tornado]
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torpedo
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n 1: a professional killer who uses a gun [syn: gunman,
gunslinger, hired gun, gun, gun for hire,
triggerman, hit man, hitman, torpedo, shooter]
2: a large sandwich made of a long crusty roll split lengthwise
and filled with meats and cheese (and tomato and onion and
lettuce and condiments); different names are used in
different sections of the United States [syn: bomber,
grinder, hero, hero sandwich, hoagie, hoagy, Cuban
sandwich, Italian sandwich, poor boy, sub,
submarine, submarine sandwich, torpedo, wedge, zep]
3: an explosive device that is set off in an oil well (or a gas
well) to start or to increase the flow of oil (or gas)
4: a small firework that consists of a percussion cap and some
gravel wrapped in paper; explodes when thrown forcefully
against a hard surface
5: a small explosive device that is placed on a railroad track
and fires when a train runs over it; the sound of the
explosion warns the engineer of danger ahead
6: armament consisting of a long cylindrical self-propelled
underwater projectile that detonates on contact with a target
7: any sluggish bottom-dwelling ray of the order Torpediniformes
having a rounded body and electric organs on each side of the
head capable of emitting strong electric discharges [syn:
electric ray, crampfish, numbfish, torpedo]
v 1: attack or hit with torpedoes
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tuxedo
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n 1: semiformal evening dress for men [syn: dinner jacket,
tux, tuxedo, black tie]
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au
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n 1: a soft yellow malleable ductile (trivalent and univalent)
metallic element; occurs mainly as nuggets in rocks and
alluvial deposits; does not react with most chemicals but
is attacked by chlorine and aqua regia [syn: gold, Au,
atomic number 79]
2: a unit of length used for distances within the solar system;
equal to the mean distance between the Earth and the Sun
(approximately 93 million miles or 150 million kilometers)
[syn: Astronomical Unit, AU]
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edo
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n 1: a member of a west African people living in the tropical
forest region of southern Nigeria
2: the capital and largest city of Japan; the economic and
cultural center of Japan [syn: Tokyo, Tokio, Yeddo,
Yedo, Edo, Japanese capital, capital of Japan]
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ido
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n 1: an artificial language that is a revision and
simplification of Esperanto
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comedo
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n 1: a black-tipped plug clogging a pore of the skin [syn:
blackhead, comedo]
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toledo
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n 1: an industrial city in northwestern Ohio on Lake Erie
2: a city in central Spain on the Tagus river; famous for steel
and swords since the first century
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albedo
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n 1: the ratio of reflected to incident light [syn: albedo,
reflective power]
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aux
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gambado
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dau
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guido
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kido
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candido
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garrido
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gionfriddo
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lucido
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partido
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placido
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pulido
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salcido
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shishido
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escondido
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phaedo
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aledo
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