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boxer
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n 1: someone who fights with his fists for sport [syn: boxer,
pugilist]
2: a workman employed to pack things into containers [syn:
packer, bagger, boxer]
3: a member of a nationalistic Chinese secret society that led
an unsuccessful rebellion in 1900 against foreign interests
in China
4: a breed of stocky medium-sized short-haired dog with a
brindled coat and square-jawed muzzle developed in Germany
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elixir
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n 1: a sweet flavored liquid (usually containing a small amount
of alcohol) used in compounding medicines to be taken by
mouth in order to mask an unpleasant taste
2: hypothetical substance that the alchemists believed to be
capable of changing base metals into gold [syn:
philosopher's stone, philosophers' stone, elixir]
3: a substance believed to cure all ills
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fixer
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n 1: someone who intervenes with authorities for a person in
trouble (usually using underhand or illegal methods for a
fee) [syn: fixer, influence peddler]
2: a chemical compound that sets or fixes something (as a dye or
a photographic image) [syn: fixing agent, fixer]
3: a skilled worker who mends or repairs things [syn: mender,
repairer, fixer]
4: synthetic narcotic drug similar to morphine but less habit-
forming; used in narcotic detoxification and maintenance of
heroin addiction [syn: methadone, methadone
hydrochloride, methadon, dolophine hydrochloride,
fixer, synthetic heroin]
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flexor
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n 1: a skeletal muscle whose contraction bends a joint [syn:
flexor muscle, flexor] [ant: extensor, extensor
muscle]
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mixer
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n 1: a party of people assembled to promote sociability and
communal activity [syn: sociable, social, mixer]
2: club soda or fruit juice used to mix with alcohol
3: electronic equipment that mixes two or more input signals to
give a single output signal
4: a kitchen utensil that is used for mixing foods
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multiplexer
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n 1: a device that can interleave two or more activities
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taxis
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n 1: a locomotor response toward or away from an external
stimulus by a motile (and usually simple) organism
2: the surgical procedure of manually restoring a displaced body
part
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pisces
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n 1: the twelfth sign of the zodiac; the sun is in this sign
from about February 19 to March 20 [syn: Pisces, Pisces
the Fishes, Fish]
2: (astrology) a person who is born while the sun is in Pisces
[syn: Pisces, Fish]
3: a large faint zodiacal constellation; between Aquarius and
Aries
4: a group of vertebrates comprising both cartilaginous and bony
fishes and sometimes including the jawless vertebrates; not
used technically
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sixer
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n 1: the cardinal number that is the sum of five and one [syn:
six, 6, VI, sixer, sise, Captain Hicks, half a
dozen, sextet, sestet, sextuplet, hexad]
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coxa
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n 1: the ball-and-socket joint between the head of the femur and
the acetabulum [syn: hip, hip joint, coxa,
articulatio coxae]
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araxes
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n 1: a river that rises in northeastern Turkey (near the source
of the Euphrates) and flows generally eastward through
Armenia to the Caspian Sea; ancient name was Araxes [syn:
Aras, Araxes]
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shiksa
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n 1: a derogatory term used by Jews to refer to non-Jewish women
[syn: shiksa, shikse]
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anticlimaxes
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bases
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cervices
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climaxes
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faxes
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multiplexor
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remixes
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synopses
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syntheses
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taxes
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taxi's
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theses
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thoraces
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thromboses
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vertices
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vortices
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waxes
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flaxes
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cees
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disseise
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disseize
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halluces
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latices
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maxis
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alexa
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vaxes
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moxa
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surtaxes
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taxa
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cevaxs
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synaxes
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