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bluebottle
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n 1: an annual Eurasian plant cultivated in North America having
showy heads of blue or purple or pink or white flowers
[syn: cornflower, bachelor's button, bluebottle,
Centaurea cyanus]
2: blowfly with iridescent blue body; makes a loud buzzing noise
in flight [syn: bluebottle, Calliphora vicina]
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bobble
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n 1: the momentary juggling of a batted or thrown baseball; "the
second baseman made a bobble but still had time to throw
the runner out"
v 1: make a mess of, destroy or ruin; "I botched the dinner and
we had to eat out"; "the pianist screwed up the difficult
passage in the second movement" [syn: botch, bodge,
bumble, fumble, botch up, muff, blow, flub,
screw up, ball up, spoil, muck up, bungle,
fluff, bollix, bollix up, bollocks, bollocks up,
bobble, mishandle, louse up, foul up, mess up,
fuck up]
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boggle
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v 1: startle with amazement or fear
2: hesitate when confronted with a problem, or when in doubt or
fear
3: overcome with amazement; "This boggles the mind!" [syn:
flabbergast, boggle, bowl over]
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boondoggle
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n 1: work of little or no value done merely to look busy
v 1: do useless, wasteful, or trivial work
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bottle
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n 1: a glass or plastic vessel used for storing drinks or other
liquids; typically cylindrical without handles and with a
narrow neck that can be plugged or capped
2: the quantity contained in a bottle [syn: bottle,
bottleful]
3: a vessel fitted with a flexible teat and filled with milk or
formula; used as a substitute for breast feeding infants and
very young children [syn: bottle, feeding bottle,
nursing bottle]
v 1: store (liquids or gases) in bottles
2: put into bottles; "bottle the mineral water"
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cattle
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n 1: domesticated bovine animals as a group regardless of sex or
age; "so many head of cattle"; "wait till the cows come
home"; "seven thin and ill-favored kine"- Bible; "a team of
oxen" [syn: cattle, cows, kine, oxen, Bos taurus]
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caudal
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adv 1: toward the posterior end of the body [syn: caudally,
caudal]
adj 1: constituting or relating to a tail; "caudal appendage"
[ant: cephalic]
2: resembling a tail [syn: caudal, taillike]
3: situated in or directed toward the part of the body from
which the tail arises; "caudal fins"; "the caudal end of the
body"
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cobble
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n 1: rectangular paving stone with curved top; once used to make
roads [syn: cobble, cobblestone, sett]
v 1: pave with cobblestones [syn: cobble, cobblestone]
2: repair or mend; "cobble shoes"
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cockle
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n 1: common edible European bivalve
2: common edible, burrowing European bivalve mollusk that has a
strong, rounded shell with radiating ribs
v 1: stir up (water) so as to form ripples [syn: ripple,
ruffle, riffle, cockle, undulate]
2: to gather something into small wrinkles or folds; "She
puckered her lips" [syn: pucker, rumple, cockle,
crumple, knit]
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coddle
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v 1: treat with excessive indulgence; "grandparents often pamper
the children"; "Let's not mollycoddle our students!" [syn:
pamper, featherbed, cosset, cocker, baby,
coddle, mollycoddle, spoil, indulge]
2: cook in nearly boiling water; "coddle eggs"
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debacle
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n 1: a sudden and violent collapse [syn: debacle, fiasco]
2: flooding caused by a tumultuous breakup of ice in a river
during the spring or summer
3: a sound defeat [syn: thrashing, walloping, debacle,
drubbing, slaughter, trouncing, whipping]
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glottal
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adj 1: of or relating to or produced by the glottis; "glottal
stops"
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mottle
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n 1: an irregular arrangement of patches of color; "it was not
dull grey as distance had suggested, but a mottle of khaki
and black and olive-green"
v 1: mark with spots or blotches of different color or shades of
color as if stained [syn: mottle, streak, blotch]
2: colour with streaks or blotches of different shades [syn:
mottle, dapple, cloud]
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throttle
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n 1: a valve that regulates the supply of fuel to the engine
[syn: accelerator, throttle, throttle valve]
2: a pedal that controls the throttle valve; "he stepped on the
gas" [syn: accelerator, accelerator pedal, gas pedal,
gas, throttle, gun]
v 1: place limits on (extent or access); "restrict the use of
this parking lot"; "limit the time you can spend with your
friends" [syn: restrict, restrain, trammel, limit,
bound, confine, throttle]
2: kill by squeezing the throat of so as to cut off the air; "he
tried to strangle his opponent"; "A man in Boston has been
strangling several dozen prostitutes" [syn: strangle,
strangulate, throttle]
3: reduce the air supply; "choke a carburetor" [syn: choke,
throttle]
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wattle
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n 1: a fleshy wrinkled and often brightly colored fold of skin
hanging from the neck or throat of certain birds (chickens
and turkeys) or lizards [syn: wattle, lappet]
2: framework consisting of stakes interwoven with branches to
form a fence
3: any of various Australasian trees yielding slender poles
suitable for wattle
v 1: build of or with wattle
2: interlace to form wattle
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dottle
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n 1: the residue of partially burnt tobacco left caked in the
bowl of a pipe after smoking
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aristotle
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n 1: one of the greatest of the ancient Athenian philosophers;
pupil of Plato; teacher of Alexander the Great (384-322 BC)
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pottle
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n 1: a pot that holds 2 quarts
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greenbottle
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n 1: blowfly with brilliant coppery green body [syn:
greenbottle, greenbottle fly]
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bottel
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cottle
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hottel
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hottle
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mottl
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epicotyl
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hypocotyl
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