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abdominal
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adj 1: of or relating to or near the abdomen; "abdominal
muscles"
n 1: the muscles of the abdomen [syn: abdominal, abdominal
muscle, ab]
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aboriginal
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adj 1: of or pertaining to members of the indigenous people of
Australia; "an Aboriginal rite"
2: characteristic of or relating to people inhabiting a region
from the beginning; "native Americans"; "the aboriginal
peoples of Australia" [syn: native, aboriginal] [ant:
nonnative]
3: having existed from the beginning; in an earliest or original
stage or state; "aboriginal forests"; "primal eras before the
appearance of life on earth"; "the forest primeval";
"primordial matter"; "primordial forms of life" [syn:
aboriginal, primal, primeval, primaeval,
primordial]
n 1: a dark-skinned member of a race of people living in
Australia when Europeans arrived [syn: Aborigine, Abo,
Aboriginal, native Australian, Australian Aborigine]
2: an indigenous person who was born in a particular place; "the
art of the natives of the northwest coast"; "the Canadian
government scrapped plans to tax the grants to aboriginal
college students" [syn: native, indigen, indigene,
aborigine, aboriginal]
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additional
0
adj 1: further or added; "called for additional troops"; "need
extra help"; "an extra pair of shoes" [syn: extra,
additional]
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altitudinal
0
adj 1: pertaining to altitude
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annul
0
v 1: declare invalid; "The contract was annulled"; "void a plea"
[syn: invalidate, annul, quash, void, avoid,
nullify] [ant: formalise, formalize, validate]
2: cancel officially; "He revoked the ban on smoking"; "lift an
embargo"; "vacate a death sentence" [syn: revoke, annul,
lift, countermand, reverse, repeal, overturn,
rescind, vacate]
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antiphonal
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adj 1: containing or using responses; alternating; "responsive
reading"; "antiphonal laughter" [syn: responsive,
antiphonal]
2: relating to or resembling an antiphon or antiphony [syn:
antiphonary, antiphonal]
n 1: bound collection of antiphons [syn: antiphonary,
antiphonal]
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archidiaconal
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adj 1: of or relating to an archdeacon or his office
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arsenal
0
n 1: all the weapons and equipment that a country has [syn:
arsenal, armory, armoury]
2: a military structure where arms and ammunition and other
military equipment are stored and training is given in the
use of arms [syn: arsenal, armory, armoury]
3: a place where arms are manufactured [syn: armory,
armoury, arsenal]
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attitudinal
0
adj 1: of or relating to attitudes
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bacchanal
0
adj 1: used of riotously drunken merrymaking; "a night of
bacchanalian revelry"; "carousing bands of drunken
soldiers"; "orgiastic festivity" [syn: bacchanalian,
bacchanal, bacchic, carousing, orgiastic]
n 1: someone who engages in drinking bouts [syn: drunken
reveler, drunken reveller, bacchanal, bacchant]
2: a drunken reveller; a devotee of Bacchus [syn: bacchant,
bacchanal]
3: a wild gathering involving excessive drinking and promiscuity
[syn: orgy, debauch, debauchery, saturnalia, riot,
bacchanal, bacchanalia, drunken revelry]
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binominal
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adj 1: having or characterized by two names, especially those of
genus and species in taxonomies; "binomial nomenclature
of bacteria" [syn: binomial, binominal]
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cacuminal
0
adj 1: pronounced with the tip of the tongue turned back toward
the hard palate [syn: cacuminal, retroflex]
-
cantonal
0
adj 1: of or relating to a canton
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cardinal
0
adj 1: serving as an essential component; "a cardinal rule";
"the central cause of the problem"; "an example that was
fundamental to the argument"; "computers are fundamental
to modern industrial structure" [syn: cardinal,
central, fundamental, key, primal]
2: being or denoting a numerical quantity but not order;
"cardinal numbers" [ant: ordinal]
n 1: (Roman Catholic Church) one of a group of more than 100
prominent bishops in the Sacred College who advise the Pope
and elect new Popes
2: the number of elements in a mathematical set; denotes a
quantity but not the order [syn: cardinal number,
cardinal]
3: a variable color averaging a vivid red [syn: cardinal,
carmine]
4: crested thick-billed North American finch having bright red
plumage in the male [syn: cardinal, cardinal grosbeak,
Richmondena Cardinalis, Cardinalis cardinalis, redbird]
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conditional
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adj 1: qualified by reservations
2: imposing or depending on or containing a condition;
"conditional acceptance of the terms"; "lent conditional
support"; "the conditional sale will not be complete until
the full purchase price is paid" [ant: unconditional,
unconditioned]
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confessional
0
n 1: a booth where a priest sits to hear confessions
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conventional
0
adj 1: following accepted customs and proprieties; "conventional
wisdom"; "she had strayed from the path of conventional
behavior"; "conventional forms of address" [ant:
unconventional]
2: conforming with accepted standards; "a conventional view of
the world" [syn: conventional, established]
3: (weapons) using energy for propulsion or destruction that is
not nuclear energy; "conventional warfare"; "conventional
weapons" [ant: atomic, nuclear]
4: unimaginative and conformist; "conventional bourgeois lives";
"conventional attitudes" [ant: unconventional]
5: represented in simplified or symbolic form [syn:
conventional, formal, schematic]
6: in accord with or being a tradition or practice accepted from
the past; "a conventional church wedding with the bride in
traditional white"; "the conventional handshake"
7: rigidly formal or bound by convention; "their ceremonious
greetings did not seem heartfelt" [syn: ceremonious,
conventional]
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correctional
0
adj 1: concerned with or providing correction; "a correctional
institution"
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criminal
0
adj 1: bringing or deserving severe rebuke or censure; "a
criminal waste of talent"; "a deplorable act of
violence"; "adultery is as reprehensible for a husband as
for a wife" [syn: condemnable, criminal,
deplorable, reprehensible, vicious]
2: guilty of crime or serious offense; "criminal in the sight of
God and man"
3: involving or being or having the nature of a crime; "a
criminal offense"; "criminal abuse"; "felonious intent" [syn:
criminal, felonious]
n 1: someone who has committed a crime or has been legally
convicted of a crime [syn: criminal, felon, crook,
outlaw, malefactor]
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delusional
0
adj 1: suffering from or characterized by delusions
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devotional
0
adj 1: relating to worship; "a devotional exercise"
n 1: a short religious service
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diagonal
0
adj 1: connecting two nonadjacent corners of a plane figure or
any two corners of a solid that are not in the same face;
"a diagonal line across the page"
2: having an oblique or slanted direction [syn: aslant,
aslope, diagonal, slanted, slanting, sloped,
sloping]
n 1: (geometry) a straight line connecting any two vertices of a
polygon that are not adjacent
2: a line or cut across a fabric that is not at right angles to
a side of the fabric [syn: diagonal, bias]
3: an oblique line of squares of the same color on a
checkerboard; "the bishop moves on the diagonals"
4: (mathematics) a set of entries in a square matrix running
diagonally either from the upper left to lower right entry or
running from the upper right to lower left entry
5: a punctuation mark (/) used to separate related items of
information [syn: solidus, slash, virgule, diagonal,
stroke, separatrix]
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dimensional
0
adj 1: of or relating to dimensions
2: having dimension--the quality or character or stature proper
to a person; "never matures as a dimensional character; he is
pasty, bland, faceless"- Norman Cousins
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directional
0
adj 1: relating to or indicating directions in space; "a
directional microphone" [ant: omnidirectional]
2: relating to direction toward a (nonspatial) goal; "he tried
to explain the directional trends of modern science"
3: showing the way by conducting or leading; imposing direction
on; "felt his mother's directing arm around him"; "the
directional role of science on industrial progress" [syn:
directing, directional, directive, guiding]
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dismantle
0
v 1: tear down so as to make flat with the ground; "The building
was levelled" [syn: level, raze, rase, dismantle,
tear down, take down, pull down] [ant: erect, put
up, raise, rear, set up]
2: take apart into its constituent pieces [syn: disassemble,
dismantle, take apart, break up, break apart] [ant:
assemble, piece, put together, set up, tack, tack
together]
3: take off or remove; "strip a wall of its wallpaper" [syn:
strip, dismantle]
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divisional
0
adj 1: of or relating to a military division; "divisional
artillery"
2: serving to divide or marking a division; "the divisional line
between two states"
3: constituting a division or an aliquot part of the basic
monetary unit; "American divisional (fractional) coins
include the dime and the nickel"; "fractional currency is
currency in denominations less than the basic monetary unit"
-
doctrinal
0
adj 1: relating to or involving or preoccupied with doctrine;
"quibbling over doctrinal minutiae"
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dull
0
adj 1: lacking in liveliness or animation; "he was so dull at
parties"; "a dull political campaign"; "a large dull
impassive man"; "dull days with nothing to do"; "how dull
and dreary the world is"; "fell back into one of her dull
moods" [ant: lively]
2: emitting or reflecting very little light; "a dull glow";
"dull silver badly in need of a polish"; "a dull sky" [ant:
bright]
3: being or made softer or less loud or clear; "the dull boom of
distant breaking waves"; "muffled drums"; "the muffled noises
of the street"; "muted trumpets" [syn: dull, muffled,
muted, softened]
4: so lacking in interest as to cause mental weariness; "a
boring evening with uninteresting people"; "the deadening
effect of some routine tasks"; "a dull play"; "his competent
but dull performance"; "a ho-hum speaker who couldn't capture
their attention"; "what an irksome task the writing of long
letters is"- Edmund Burke; "tedious days on the train"; "the
tiresome chirping of a cricket"- Mark Twain; "other people's
dreams are dreadfully wearisome" [syn: boring, deadening,
dull, ho-hum, irksome, slow, tedious, tiresome,
wearisome]
5: (of color) very low in saturation; highly diluted; "dull
greens and blues"
6: not keenly felt; "a dull throbbing"; "dull pain" [ant:
sharp]
7: slow to learn or understand; lacking intellectual acuity; "so
dense he never understands anything I say to him"; "never met
anyone quite so dim"; "although dull at classical learning,
at mathematics he was uncommonly quick"- Thackeray; "dumb
officials make some really dumb decisions"; "he was either
normally stupid or being deliberately obtuse"; "worked with
the slow students" [syn: dense, dim, dull, dumb,
obtuse, slow]
8: (of business) not active or brisk; "business is dull (or
slow)"; "a sluggish market" [syn: dull, slow, sluggish]
9: not having a sharp edge or point; "the knife was too dull to
be of any use" [ant: sharp]
10: blunted in responsiveness or sensibility; "a dull gaze"; "so
exhausted she was dull to what went on about her"- Willa
Cather
11: not clear and resonant; sounding as if striking with or
against something relatively soft; "the dull thud";
"thudding bullets" [syn: dull, thudding]
12: darkened with overcast; "a dark day"; "a dull sky"; "the sky
was leaden and thick" [syn: dull, leaden]
v 1: make dull in appearance; "Age had dulled the surface"
2: become dull or lusterless in appearance; lose shine or
brightness; "the varnished table top dulled with time"
3: deaden (a sound or noise), especially by wrapping [syn:
muffle, mute, dull, damp, dampen, tone down]
4: make numb or insensitive; "The shock numbed her senses" [syn:
numb, benumb, blunt, dull]
5: make dull or blunt; "Too much cutting dulls the knife's edge"
[syn: dull, blunt] [ant: sharpen]
6: become less interesting or attractive [syn: pall, dull]
7: make less lively or vigorous; "Middle age dulled her appetite
for travel"
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empanel
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v 1: enter into a list of prospective jurors [syn: empanel,
impanel]
2: select from a list; "empanel prospective jurors" [syn:
empanel, impanel, panel]
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flannel
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n 1: a soft light woolen fabric; used for clothing
2: bath linen consisting of a piece of cloth used to wash the
face and body [syn: washcloth, washrag, flannel, face
cloth]
3: (usually in the plural) trousers made of flannel or gabardine
or tweed or white cloth [syn: flannel, gabardine,
tweed, white]
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gastrointestinal
0
adj 1: of or relating to the stomach and intestines; "a
gastrointestinal disorder" [syn: gastrointestinal,
GI]
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germinal
0
adj 1: containing seeds of later development; "seminal ideas of
one discipline can influence the growth of another" [syn:
germinal, originative, seminal]
n 1: seventh month of the Revolutionary calendar (March and
April); the month of buds
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gull
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n 1: a person who is gullible and easy to take advantage of
[syn: chump, fool, gull, mark, patsy, fall guy,
sucker, soft touch, mug]
2: mostly white aquatic bird having long pointed wings and short
legs [syn: gull, seagull, sea gull]
v 1: make a fool or dupe of [syn: fool, gull, befool]
2: fool or hoax; "The immigrant was duped because he trusted
everyone"; "You can't fool me!" [syn: gull, dupe,
slang, befool, cod, fool, put on, take in, put
one over, put one across]
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hexagonal
0
adj 1: having six sides or divided into hexagons [syn:
hexangular, hexagonal]
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impersonal
0
adj 1: not relating to or responsive to individual persons; "an
impersonal corporation"; "an impersonal remark" [ant:
personal]
2: having no personal preference; "impersonal criticism"; "a
neutral observer" [syn: impersonal, neutral]
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intestinal
0
adj 1: of or relating to or inside the intestines; "intestinal
disease" [syn: intestinal, enteric, enteral]
-
juvenal
0
n 1: Roman satirist who denounced the vice and folly of Roman
society during the reign of the emperor Domitian (60-140)
[syn: Juvenal, Decimus Junius Juvenalis]
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latitudinal
0
adj 1: of or relating to latitudes north or south
-
libidinal
0
adj 1: belonging to the libido; "libidinal impulses"; "libidinal
gratification"
-
longitudinal
0
adj 1: of or relating to lines of longitude; "longitudinal
reckoning by the navigator"
2: running lengthwise; "a thin longitudinal strip";
"longitudinal measurements of the hull"
3: over an extended time; "a longitudinal study of twins"
-
medicinal
0
adj 1: having the properties of medicine; "medicative drugs";
"medicinal herbs"; "medicinal properties" [syn:
medicative, medicinal]
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nominal
0
adj 1: relating to or constituting or bearing or giving a name;
"the Russian system of nominal brevity"; "a nominal lists
of priests"; "taxable males as revealed by the nominal
rolls"
2: insignificantly small; a matter of form only (`tokenish' is
informal); "the fee was nominal"; "a token gesture of
resistance"; "a toknenish gesture" [syn: nominal,
token(a), tokenish]
3: pertaining to a noun or to a word group that functions as a
noun; "nominal phrase"; "noun phrase"
4: of, relating to, or characteristic of an amount that is not
adjusted for inflation; "the nominal GDP"; "nominal interest
rates" [ant: real]
5: named; bearing the name of a specific person; "nominative
shares of stock" [syn: nominative, nominal]
6: existing in name only; "the nominal (or titular) head of his
party" [syn: nominal, titular]
n 1: a phrase that can function as the subject or object of a
verb [syn: noun phrase, nominal phrase, nominal]
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null
0
adj 1: lacking any legal or binding force; "null and void" [syn:
null, void]
n 1: a quantity of no importance; "it looked like nothing I had
ever seen before"; "reduced to nil all the work we had
done"; "we racked up a pathetic goose egg"; "it was all for
naught"; "I didn't hear zilch about it" [syn: nothing,
nil, nix, nada, null, aught, cipher, cypher,
goose egg, naught, zero, zilch, zip, zippo]
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octagonal
0
adj 1: of or relating to or shaped like an octagon [syn:
octangular, octagonal]
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ordinal
0
adj 1: of or relating to a taxonomic order; "family and ordinal
names of animals and plants"
2: being or denoting a numerical order in a series; "ordinal
numbers"; "held an ordinal rank of seventh" [ant: cardinal]
n 1: the number designating place in an ordered sequence [syn:
ordinal number, ordinal, no.]
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orthogonal
0
adj 1: not pertinent to the matter under consideration; "an
issue extraneous to the debate"; "the price was
immaterial"; "mentioned several impertinent facts before
finally coming to the point" [syn: extraneous,
immaterial, impertinent, orthogonal]
2: statistically unrelated
3: having a set of mutually perpendicular axes; meeting at right
angles; "wind and sea may displace the ship's center of
gravity along three orthogonal axes"; "a rectangular
Cartesian coordinate system" [syn: orthogonal,
rectangular]
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pentagonal
0
adj 1: of or relating to or shaped like a pentagon [syn:
pentangular, pentagonal]
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personal
0
adj 1: concerning or affecting a particular person or his or her
private life and personality; "a personal favor"; "for
your personal use"; "personal papers"; "I have something
personal to tell you"; "a personal God"; "he has his
personal bank account and she has hers" [ant:
impersonal]
2: particular to a given individual
3: of or arising from personality; "personal magnetism"
4: intimately concerning a person's body or physical being;
"personal hygiene"
5: indicating grammatical person; "personal verb endings"
n 1: a short newspaper article about a particular person or
group
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phenomenal
0
adj 1: of or relating to a phenomenon; "phenomenal science"
2: exceedingly or unbelievably great; "the bomb did fantastic
damage"; "Samson is supposed to have had fantastic strength";
"phenomenaRl feats of memory"
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polygonal
0
adj 1: having many sides or relating to a surface marked by
polygons; "polygonal structure"
-
pronominal
0
adj 1: relating to pronouns; "pronominal reference"
n 1: a phrase that functions as a pronoun [syn: pronominal
phrase, pronominal]
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retinal
0
adj 1: in or relating to the retina of the eye; "retinal cells"
n 1: either of two yellow to red retinal pigments formed from
rhodopsin by the action of light [syn: retinene,
retinal]
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seminal
0
adj 1: pertaining to or containing or consisting of semen;
"seminal fluid"
2: containing seeds of later development; "seminal ideas of one
discipline can influence the growth of another" [syn:
germinal, originative, seminal]
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sentinel
0
n 1: a person employed to keep watch for some anticipated event
[syn: lookout, lookout man, sentinel, sentry,
watch, spotter, scout, picket]
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subliminal
0
adj 1: below the threshold of conscious perception
-
terminal
0
adj 1: of or relating to or situated at the ends of a delivery
route; "freight pickup is a terminal service"; "terminal
charges"
2: relating to or occurring in a term or fixed period of time;
"terminal examinations"; "terminal payments"
3: being or situated at an end; "the endmost pillar"; "terminal
buds on a branch"; "a terminal station"; "the terminal
syllable" [ant: intermediate]
4: occurring at or forming an end or termination; "his
concluding words came as a surprise"; "the final chapter";
"the last days of the dinosaurs"; "terminal leave" [syn:
concluding, final, last, terminal]
5: causing or ending in or approaching death; "a terminal
patient"; "terminal cancer"
n 1: station where transport vehicles load or unload passengers
or goods [syn: terminal, terminus, depot]
2: a contact on an electrical device (such as a battery) at
which electric current enters or leaves [syn: terminal,
pole]
3: either extremity of something that has length; "the end of
the pier"; "she knotted the end of the thread"; "they rode to
the end of the line"; "the terminals of the anterior arches
of the fornix" [syn: end, terminal]
4: electronic equipment consisting of a device providing access
to a computer; has a keyboard and display
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tetragonal
0
adj 1: of or relating to or shaped like a quadrilateral
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vicinal
0
adj 1: belonging to or limited to a vicinity
-
impanel
0
v 1: enter into a list of prospective jurors [syn: empanel,
impanel]
2: select from a list; "empanel prospective jurors" [syn:
empanel, impanel, panel]
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mangonel
0
n 1: an engine that provided medieval artillery used during
sieges; a heavy war engine for hurling large stones and
other missiles [syn: catapult, arbalest, arbalist,
ballista, bricole, mangonel, onager, trebuchet,
trebucket]
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matutinal
0
adj 1: pertaining to or occurring in the morning; "took his
matutinal walk"
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luminal
0
n 1: a long-acting barbiturate used as a sedative [syn: sodium
thiopental, phenobarbital, phenobarbitone, Luminal,
purple heart]
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embryonal
0
adj 1: of an organism prior to birth or hatching; "in the
embryonic stage"; "embryologic development" [syn:
embryonic, embryologic, embryonal]
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aberrational
0
-
adnominal
0
-
decanal
0
-
dentinal
0
-
depositional
0
-
diaconal
0
-
disannul
0
-
epiphenomenal
0
-
finals
0
-
heptagonal
0
-
officinal
0
-
transpersonal
0
-
cognominal
0
-
binational
0
-
mcdanel
0
-
vaticinal
0
-
subabdominal
0
-
liminal
0
-
aspinall
0
-
testudinal
0
-
decagonal
0