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ail
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n 1: aromatic bulb used as seasoning [syn: garlic, ail]
v 1: be ill or unwell
2: cause bodily suffering to and make sick or indisposed [syn:
trouble, ail, pain]
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ale
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n 1: a general name for beer made with a top fermenting yeast;
in some of the United States an ale is (by law) a brew of
more than 4% alcohol by volume
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assail
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v 1: attack someone physically or emotionally; "The mugger
assaulted the woman"; "Nightmares assailed him regularly"
[syn: assail, assault, set on, attack]
2: launch an attack or assault on; begin hostilities or start
warfare with; "Hitler attacked Poland on September 1, 1939
and started World War II"; "Serbian forces assailed Bosnian
towns all week" [syn: attack, assail] [ant: defend]
3: attack in speech or writing; "The editors of the left-leaning
paper attacked the new House Speaker" [syn: attack,
round, assail, lash out, snipe, assault]
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avail
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n 1: a means of serving; "of no avail"; "there's no help for it"
[syn: avail, help, service]
v 1: use to one's advantage; "He availed himself of the
available resources"
2: be of use to, be useful to; "It will avail them to dispose of
their booty"
3: take or use; "She helped herself to some of the office
supplies" [syn: avail, help]
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bail
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n 1: (criminal law) money that must be forfeited by the bondsman
if an accused person fails to appear in court for trial;
"the judge set bail at $10,000"; "a $10,000 bond was
furnished by an alderman" [syn: bail, bail bond,
bond]
2: the legal system that allows an accused person to be
temporarily released from custody (usually on condition that
a sum of money guarantees their appearance at trial); "he is
out on bail"
v 1: release after a security has been paid
2: deliver something in trust to somebody for a special purpose
and for a limited period
3: secure the release of (someone) by providing security
4: empty (a vessel) by bailing
5: remove (water) from a vessel with a container
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bale
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n 1: a large bundle bound for storage or transport
2: a city in northwestern Switzerland [syn: Basel, Basle,
Bale]
v 1: make into a bale; "bale hay"
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bewail
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v 1: regret strongly; "I deplore this hostile action"; "we
lamented the loss of benefits" [syn: deplore, lament,
bewail, bemoan]
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braille
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n 1: French educator who lost his sight at the age of three and
who invented a system of writing and printing for sightless
people (1809-1852) [syn: Braille, Louis Braille]
2: a point system of writing in which patterns of raised dots
represent letters and numerals
v 1: transcribe in braille
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curtail
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v 1: place restrictions on; "curtail drinking in school" [syn:
restrict, curtail, curb, cut back]
2: terminate or abbreviate before its intended or proper end or
its full extent; "My speech was cut short"; "Personal freedom
is curtailed in many countries" [syn: clip, curtail, cut
short]
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dale
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n 1: an open river valley (in a hilly area)
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derail
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v 1: cause to run off the tracks; "they had planned to derail
the trains that carried atomic waste"
2: run off or leave the rails; "the train derailed because a cow
was standing on the tracks" [syn: derail, jump]
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detail
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n 1: an isolated fact that is considered separately from the
whole; "several of the details are similar"; "a point of
information" [syn: detail, item, point]
2: a small part that can be considered separately from the
whole; "it was perfect in all details" [syn: detail,
particular, item]
3: extended treatment of particulars; "the essay contained too
much detail"
4: a crew of workers selected for a particular task; "a detail
was sent to remove the fallen trees"
5: a temporary military unit; "the peacekeeping force includes
one British contingent" [syn: contingent, detail]
v 1: provide details for
2: assign to a specific task; "The ambulances were detailed to
the fire station"
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entail
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n 1: land received by fee tail
2: the act of entailing property; the creation of a fee tail
from a fee simple
v 1: have as a logical consequence; "The water shortage means
that we have to stop taking long showers" [syn: entail,
imply, mean]
2: impose, involve, or imply as a necessary accompaniment or
result; "What does this move entail?" [syn: entail,
implicate]
3: limit the inheritance of property to a specific class of
heirs [syn: fee-tail, entail]
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exhale
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v 1: expel air; "Exhale when you lift the weight" [syn:
exhale, expire, breathe out] [ant: breathe in,
inhale, inspire]
2: give out (breath or an odor); "The chimney exhales a thick
smoke" [syn: exhale, give forth, emanate]
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flail
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n 1: an implement consisting of handle with a free swinging
stick at the end; used in manual threshing
v 1: give a thrashing to; beat hard [syn: thrash, thresh,
lam, flail]
2: move like a flail; thresh about; "Her arms were flailing"
[syn: flail, thresh]
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frail
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adj 1: physically weak; "an invalid's frail body" [ant:
robust]
2: wanting in moral strength, courage, or will; having the
attributes of man as opposed to e.g. divine beings; "I'm only
a fallible human"; "frail humanity" [syn: fallible,
frail, imperfect, weak]
3: easily broken or damaged or destroyed; "a kite too delicate
to fly safely"; "fragile porcelain plates"; "fragile old
bones"; "a frail craft" [syn: delicate, fragile, frail]
n 1: the weight of a frail (basket) full of raisins or figs;
between 50 and 75 pounds
2: a basket for holding dried fruit (especially raisins or figs)
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grail
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n 1: the object of any prolonged endeavor
2: (legend) chalice used by Christ at the Last Supper [syn:
grail, Holy Grail, Sangraal]
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impale
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v 1: pierce with a sharp stake or point; "impale a shrimp on a
skewer" [syn: transfix, impale, empale, spike]
2: kill by piercing with a spear or sharp pole; "the enemies
were impaled and left to die" [syn: impale, stake]
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inhale
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v 1: draw deep into the lungs in by breathing; "Clinton smoked
marijuana but never inhaled"
2: draw in (air); "Inhale deeply"; "inhale the fresh mountain
air"; "The patient has trouble inspiring"; "The lung cancer
patient cannot inspire air very well" [syn: inhale,
inspire, breathe in] [ant: breathe out, exhale,
expire]
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prevail
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v 1: be larger in number, quantity, power, status or importance;
"Money reigns supreme here"; "Hispanics predominate in this
neighborhood" [syn: predominate, dominate, rule,
reign, prevail]
2: be valid, applicable, or true; "This theory still holds"
[syn: prevail, hold, obtain]
3: continue to exist; "These stories die hard"; "The legend of
Elvis endures" [syn: prevail, persist, die hard, run,
endure]
4: prove superior; "The champion prevailed, though it was a hard
fight" [syn: prevail, triumph]
5: use persuasion successfully; "He prevailed upon her to visit
his parents"
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quail
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n 1: flesh of quail; suitable for roasting or broiling if young;
otherwise must be braised
2: small gallinaceous game birds
v 1: draw back, as with fear or pain; "she flinched when they
showed the slaughtering of the calf" [syn: flinch,
squinch, funk, cringe, shrink, wince, recoil,
quail]
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scale
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n 1: an ordered reference standard; "judging on a scale of 1 to
10" [syn: scale, scale of measurement, graduated
table, ordered series]
2: relative magnitude; "they entertained on a grand scale"
3: the ratio between the size of something and a representation
of it; "the scale of the map"; "the scale of the model"
4: a specialized leaf or bract that protects a bud or catkin
[syn: scale, scale leaf]
5: a thin flake of dead epidermis shed from the surface of the
skin [syn: scale, scurf, exfoliation]
6: (music) a series of notes differing in pitch according to a
specific scheme (usually within an octave) [syn: scale,
musical scale]
7: a measuring instrument for weighing; shows amount of mass
[syn: scale, weighing machine]
8: an indicator having a graduated sequence of marks
9: a metal sheathing of uniform thickness (such as the shield
attached to an artillery piece to protect the gunners) [syn:
plate, scale, shell]
10: a flattened rigid plate forming part of the body covering of
many animals
v 1: measure by or as if by a scale; "This bike scales only 25
pounds"
2: pattern, make, regulate, set, measure, or estimate according
to some rate or standard
3: take by attacking with scaling ladders; "The troops scaled
the walls of the fort"
4: reach the highest point of; "We scaled the Mont Blanc" [syn:
scale, surmount]
5: climb up by means of a ladder
6: remove the scales from; "scale fish" [syn: scale,
descale]
7: measure with or as if with scales; "scale the gold"
8: size or measure according to a scale; "This model must be
scaled down"
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snail
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n 1: freshwater or marine or terrestrial gastropod mollusk
usually having an external enclosing spiral shell
2: edible terrestrial snail usually served in the shell with a
sauce of melted butter and garlic [syn: escargot, snail]
v 1: gather snails; "We went snailing in the summer"
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stale
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adj 1: lacking freshness, palatability, or showing deterioration
from age; "stale bread"; "the beer was stale" [ant:
fresh]
2: lacking originality or spontaneity; no longer new; "moth-
eaten theories about race"; "stale news" [syn: cold,
stale, dusty, moth-eaten]
v 1: urinate, of cattle and horses
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trail
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n 1: a track or mark left by something that has passed; "there
as a trail of blood"; "a tear left its trail on her cheek"
2: a path or track roughly blazed through wild or hilly country
3: evidence pointing to a possible solution; "the police are
following a promising lead"; "the trail led straight to the
perpetrator" [syn: lead, track, trail]
v 1: to lag or linger behind; "But in so many other areas we
still are dragging" [syn: drag, trail, get behind,
hang back, drop behind, drop back]
2: go after with the intent to catch; "The policeman chased the
mugger down the alley"; "the dog chased the rabbit" [syn:
chase, chase after, trail, tail, tag, give chase,
dog, go after, track]
3: move, proceed, or walk draggingly or slowly; "John trailed
behind his class mates"; "The Mercedes trailed behind the
horse cart" [syn: trail, shack]
4: hang down so as to drag along the ground; "The bride's veiled
trailed along the ground"
5: drag loosely along a surface; allow to sweep the ground; "The
toddler was trailing his pants"; "She trained her long scarf
behind her" [syn: trail, train]
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travail
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n 1: concluding state of pregnancy; from the onset of
contractions to the birth of a child; "she was in labor for
six hours" [syn: parturiency, labor, labour,
confinement, lying-in, travail, childbed]
2: use of physical or mental energy; hard work; "he got an A for
effort"; "they managed only with great exertion" [syn:
effort, elbow grease, exertion, travail, sweat]
v 1: work hard; "She was digging away at her math homework";
"Lexicographers drudge all day long" [syn: labor,
labour, toil, fag, travail, grind, drudge,
dig, moil]
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unveil
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v 1: remove the veil from; "Women must not unveil themselves in
public in Islamic societies" [ant: veil]
2: make visible; "Summer brings out bright clothes"; "He brings
out the best in her" [syn: uncover, bring out, unveil,
reveal]
3: remove the cover from; "unveil a painting"
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dail
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n 1: the lower house of the parliament of the Irish Republic
[syn: Dail Eireann, Dail]
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airedale
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n 1: breed of large wiry-coated terrier bred in Yorkshire [syn:
Airedale, Airedale terrier]
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clydesdale
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n 1: heavy feathered-legged breed of draft horse originally from
Scotland
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teasdale
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n 1: United States poet (1884-1933) [syn: Teasdale, Sara
Teasdale]
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chippendale
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adj 1: of or relating to an 18th-century style of furniture made
by Thomas Chippendale; graceful outlines and Greek motifs
and massive rococo carvings
n 1: a British cabinetmaker remembered for his graceful designs
(especially of chairs) which influenced his contemporaries
(1718-1779) [syn: Chippendale, Thomas Chippendale]
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crail
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daile
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dayle
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ancell
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barrell
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bartell
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borrell
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cadell
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averell
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drysdale
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langdale
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lonsdale
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mondale
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rochdale
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stockdale
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tweeddale
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coverdale
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lauderdale
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wensleydale
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mccorquodale
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