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dower
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n 1: money or property brought by a woman to her husband at
marriage [syn: dowry, dowery, dower, portion]
2: a life estate to which a wife is entitled on the death of her
husband
v 1: furnish with an endowment; "When she got married, she got
dowered" [syn: endow, dower]
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flour
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n 1: fine powdery foodstuff obtained by grinding and sifting the
meal of a cereal grain
v 1: cover with flour; "flour fish or meat before frying it"
2: convert grain into flour
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hour
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n 1: a period of time equal to 1/24th of a day; "the job will
take more than an hour" [syn: hour, hr, 60 minutes]
2: clock time; "the hour is getting late" [syn: hour, time of
day]
3: a special and memorable period; "it was their finest hour"
4: distance measured by the time taken to cover it; "we live an
hour from the airport"; "its just 10 minutes away" [syn:
hour, minute]
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labour
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n 1: a social class comprising those who do manual labor or work
for wages; "there is a shortage of skilled labor in this
field" [syn: labor, labour, working class,
proletariat]
2: 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]
3: a political party formed in Great Britain in 1900;
characterized by the promotion of labor's interests and
formerly the socialization of key industries [syn: British
Labour Party, Labour Party, Labour, Labor]
4: productive work (especially physical work done for wages);
"his labor did not require a great deal of skill" [syn:
labor, labour, toil]
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]
2: strive and make an effort to reach a goal; "She tugged for
years to make a decent living"; "We have to push a little to
make the deadline!"; "She is driving away at her doctoral
thesis" [syn: tug, labor, labour, push, drive]
3: undergo the efforts of childbirth [syn: labor, labour]
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scour
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n 1: a place that is scoured (especially by running water)
v 1: examine minutely; "The police scoured the country for the
fugitive"
2: clean with hard rubbing; "She scrubbed his back" [syn:
scrub, scour]
3: rub hard or scrub; "scour the counter tops" [syn: scour,
abrade]
4: rinse, clean, or empty with a liquid; "flush the wound with
antibiotics"; "purge the old gas tank" [syn: flush,
scour, purge]
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sour
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adj 1: smelling of fermentation or staleness [syn: sour,
rancid]
2: having a sharp biting taste [ant: sweet]
3: one of the four basic taste sensations; like the taste of
vinegar or lemons
4: in an unpalatable state; "sour milk" [syn: off, sour,
turned]
5: inaccurate in pitch; "a false (or sour) note"; "her singing
was off key" [syn: false, off-key, sour]
6: showing a brooding ill humor; "a dark scowl"; "the
proverbially dour New England Puritan"; "a glum, hopeless
shrug"; "he sat in moody silence"; "a morose and unsociable
manner"; "a saturnine, almost misanthropic young genius"-
Bruce Bliven; "a sour temper"; "a sullen crowd" [syn: dark,
dour, glowering, glum, moody, morose, saturnine,
sour, sullen]
n 1: a cocktail made of a liquor (especially whiskey or gin)
mixed with lemon or lime juice and sugar
2: the taste experience when vinegar or lemon juice is taken
into the mouth [syn: sour, sourness, tartness]
3: the property of being acidic [syn: sourness, sour,
acidity]
v 1: go sour or spoil; "The milk has soured"; "The wine worked";
"The cream has turned--we have to throw it out" [syn:
sour, turn, ferment, work]
2: make sour or more sour [syn: sour, acidify, acidulate,
acetify] [ant: dulcify, dulcorate, edulcorate,
sweeten]
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lour
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v 1: set lower; "lower a rating"; "lower expectations" [syn:
lower, lour]
2: make lower or quieter; "turn down the volume of a radio"
[syn: turn down, lower, lour]
3: look angry or sullen, wrinkle one's forehead, as if to signal
disapproval [syn: frown, glower, lour, lower]
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jour
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blauer
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krauer
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dessauer
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bour
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