Words that rhyme with second
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abscond
v 1: run away; usually includes taking something or somebody along; "The thief made off with our silver"; "the accountant absconded with the cash from the safe" [syn: abscond, bolt, absquatulate, decamp, run off, go off, make off] -
aforementioned
adj 1: being the one previously mentioned or spoken of; "works of all the aforementioned authors"; "said party has denied the charges" [syn: aforesaid(a), aforementioned(a), said(a)] -
almond
n 1: small bushy deciduous tree native to Asia and North Africa having pretty pink blossoms and highly prized edible nuts enclosed in a hard green hull; cultivated in southern Australia and California [syn: almond, sweet almond, Prunus dulcis, Prunus amygdalus, Amygdalus communis] 2: oval-shaped edible seed of the almond tree -
awaken
v 1: cause to become awake or conscious; "He was roused by the drunken men in the street"; "Please wake me at 6 AM." [syn: awaken, wake, waken, rouse, wake up, arouse] [ant: cause to sleep] 2: stop sleeping; "She woke up to the sound of the alarm clock" [syn: wake up, awake, arouse, awaken, wake, come alive, waken] [ant: dope off, doze off, drift off, drop off, drowse off, fall asleep, flake out, nod off] 3: make aware; "They were awakened to the sad facts" -
awestricken
adj 1: having or showing a feeling of mixed reverence and respect and wonder and dread; "stood in awed silence before the shrine"; "in grim despair and awestruck wonder" [syn: awed, awestruck, awestricken] [ant: unawed] -
beckon
v 1: signal with the hands or nod; "She waved to her friends"; "He waved his hand hospitably" [syn: beckon, wave] 2: appear inviting; "The shop window decorations beckoned" 3: summon with a wave, nod, or some other gesture -
bespoken
adj 1: (of clothing) custom-made [syn: bespoke, bespoken, made-to-order, tailored, tailor-made] 2: pledged to be married; "the engaged couple" [syn: bespoken, betrothed] -
betoken
v 1: be a signal for or a symptom of; "These symptoms indicate a serious illness"; "Her behavior points to a severe neurosis"; "The economic indicators signal that the euro is undervalued" [syn: bespeak, betoken, indicate, point, signal] 2: indicate by signs; "These signs bode bad news" [syn: bode, portend, auspicate, prognosticate, omen, presage, betoken, foreshadow, augur, foretell, prefigure, forecast, predict] -
beyond
adv 1: farther along in space or time or degree; "through the valley and beyond"; "to the eighth grade but not beyond"; "will be influential in the 1990s and beyond" 2: on the farther side from the observer; "a pond with a hayfield beyond" 3: in addition; "agreed to provide essentials but nothing beyond" -
blacken
v 1: make or become black; "The smoke blackened the ceiling"; "The ceiling blackened" [syn: blacken, melanize, melanise, nigrify, black] [ant: white, whiten] 2: burn slightly and superficially so as to affect color; "The cook blackened the chicken breast"; "The fire charred the ceiling above the mantelpiece"; "the flames scorched the ceiling" [syn: char, blacken, sear, scorch] -
blonde
adj 1: being or having light colored skin and hair and usually blue or grey eyes; "blond Scandinavians"; "a house full of light-haired children" [syn: blond, blonde, light-haired] [ant: brunet, brunette] n 1: a person with fair skin and hair [syn: blond, blonde] 2: a light grayish yellow to near white [syn: blond, blonde] -
bond
n 1: an electrical force linking atoms [syn: chemical bond, bond] 2: a certificate of debt (usually interest-bearing or discounted) that is issued by a government or corporation in order to raise money; the issuer is required to pay a fixed sum annually until maturity and then a fixed sum to repay the principal [syn: bond, bond certificate] 3: a connection based on kinship or marriage or common interest; "the shifting alliances within a large family"; "their friendship constitutes a powerful bond between them" [syn: alliance, bond] 4: (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] 5: a restraint that confines or restricts freedom (especially something used to tie down or restrain a prisoner) [syn: shackle, bond, hamper, trammel] 6: a connection that fastens things together [syn: attachment, bond] 7: a superior quality of strong durable white writing paper; originally made for printing documents [syn: bond, bond paper] 8: United States civil rights leader who was elected to the legislature in Georgia but was barred from taking his seat because he opposed the Vietnam War (born 1940) [syn: Bond, Julian Bond] 9: British secret operative 007 in novels by Ian Fleming [syn: Bond, James Bond] 10: the property of sticking together (as of glue and wood) or the joining of surfaces of different composition; "the mutual adhesiveness of cells"; "a heated hydraulic press was required for adhesion" [syn: adhesiveness, adhesion, adherence, bond] v 1: stick to firmly; "Will this wallpaper adhere to the wall?" [syn: adhere, hold fast, bond, bind, stick, stick to] 2: create social or emotional ties; "The grandparents want to bond with the child" [syn: bind, tie, attach, bond] 3: issue bonds on 4: bring together in a common cause or emotion; "The death of their child had drawn them together" [syn: bond, bring together, draw together] -
bracken
n 1: fern of southeastern Asia; not hardy in cold temperate regions [syn: bracken, Pteridium esculentum] 2: large coarse fern often several feet high; essentially weed ferns; cosmopolitan [syn: bracken, pasture brake, brake, Pteridium aquilinum] -
brigand
n 1: an armed thief who is (usually) a member of a band [syn: bandit, brigand] -
broken
adj 1: physically and forcibly separated into pieces or cracked or split; "a broken mirror"; "a broken tooth"; "a broken leg"; "his neck is broken" [ant: unbroken] 2: not continuous in space, time, or sequence or varying abruptly; "broken lines of defense"; "a broken cable transmission"; "broken sleep"; "tear off the stub above the broken line"; "a broken note"; "broken sobs" [ant: unbroken] 3: subdued or brought low in condition or status; "brought low"; "a broken man"; "his broken spirit" [syn: broken, crushed, humbled, humiliated, low] 4: (especially of promises or contracts) having been violated or disregarded; "broken (or unkept) promises"; "broken contracts" [syn: broken, unkept] [ant: kept, unbroken] 5: tamed or trained to obey; "a horse broken to the saddle"; "this old nag is well broken in" [syn: broken, broken in] 6: topographically very uneven; "broken terrain"; "rugged ground" [syn: broken, rugged] 7: imperfectly spoken or written; "broken English" 8: thrown into a state of disarray or confusion; "troops fleeing in broken ranks"; "a confused mass of papers on the desk"; "the small disordered room"; "with everything so upset" [syn: broken, confused, disordered, upset] 9: weakened and infirm; "broken health resulting from alcoholism" 10: destroyed financially; "the broken fortunes of the family" [syn: broken, wiped out(p), impoverished] 11: out of working order (`busted' is an informal substitute for `broken'); "a broken washing machine"; "the coke machine is broken"; "the coke machine is busted" [syn: broken, busted] 12: discontinuous; "broken clouds"; "broken sunshine" 13: lacking a part or parts; "a broken set of encyclopedia" -
can
n 1: airtight sealed metal container for food or drink or paint etc. [syn: can, tin, tin can] 2: the quantity contained in a can [syn: can, canful] 3: a buoy with a round bottom and conical top [syn: can, can buoy] 4: the fleshy part of the human body that you sit on; "he deserves a good kick in the butt"; "are you going to sit on your fanny and do nothing?" [syn: buttocks, nates, arse, butt, backside, bum, buns, can, fundament, hindquarters, hind end, keister, posterior, prat, rear, rear end, rump, stern, seat, tail, tail end, tooshie, tush, bottom, behind, derriere, fanny, ass] 5: a plumbing fixture for defecation and urination [syn: toilet, can, commode, crapper, pot, potty, stool, throne] 6: a room or building equipped with one or more toilets [syn: toilet, lavatory, lav, can, john, privy, bathroom] v 1: preserve in a can or tin; "tinned foods are not very tasty" [syn: can, tin, put up] 2: terminate the employment of; discharge from an office or position; "The boss fired his secretary today"; "The company terminated 25% of its workers" [syn: displace, fire, give notice, can, dismiss, give the axe, send away, sack, force out, give the sack, terminate] [ant: employ, engage, hire] -
chateaubriand
n 1: French statesman and writer; considered a precursor of the romantic movement in France (1768-1848) [syn: Chateaubriand, Francois Rene Chateaubriand, Vicomte de Chateaubriand] 2: a very thick center cut of beef tenderloin -
commissioned
adj 1: (of military officers) holding by virtue of a commission a rank of second lieutenant or ensign or above [ant: noncommissioned] 2: given official approval to act; "an accredited college"; "commissioned broker"; "licensed pharmacist"; "authorized representative" [syn: accredited, commissioned, licensed, licenced] -
correspond
v 1: be compatible, similar or consistent; coincide in their characteristics; "The two stories don't agree in many details"; "The handwriting checks with the signature on the check"; "The suspect's fingerprints don't match those on the gun" [syn: match, fit, correspond, check, jibe, gibe, tally, agree] [ant: disaccord, disagree, discord] 2: be equivalent or parallel, in mathematics [syn: equate, correspond] 3: exchange messages; "My Russian pen pal and I have been corresponding for several years" 4: take the place of or be parallel or equivalent to; "Because of the sound changes in the course of history, an 'h' in Greek stands for an 's' in Latin" [syn: represent, stand for, correspond] -
dachshund
n 1: small long-bodied short-legged German breed of dog having a short sleek coat and long drooping ears; suited for following game into burrows [syn: dachshund, dachsie, badger dog] -
darken
v 1: become dark or darker; "The sky darkened" [ant: lighten, lighten up] 2: tarnish or stain; "a scandal that darkened the family's good name" 3: make dark or darker; "darken a room" [ant: brighten, lighten, lighten up] -
despond
v 1: lose confidence or hope; become dejected; "The supporters of the Presidential candidate desponded when they learned the early results of the election" -
destined
adj 1: headed or intending to head in a certain direction; often used as a combining form as in `college-bound students'; "children bound for school"; "a flight destined for New York" [syn: bound, destined] 2: (usually followed by `to') governed by fate; "bound to happen"; "an old house destined to be demolished"; "he is destined to be famous" [syn: bound(p), destined] -
diamond
n 1: a transparent piece of diamond that has been cut and polished and is valued as a precious gem 2: very hard native crystalline carbon valued as a gem [syn: diamond, adamant] 3: a parallelogram with four equal sides; an oblique-angled equilateral parallelogram [syn: rhombus, rhomb, diamond] 4: a playing card in the minor suit that has one or more red rhombuses on it; "he led a small diamond"; "diamonds were trumps" 5: the area of a baseball field that is enclosed by 3 bases and home plate [syn: baseball diamond, diamond, infield] [ant: outfield] 6: the baseball playing field [syn: ball field, baseball field, diamond] -
dividend
n 1: that part of the earnings of a corporation that is distributed to its shareholders; usually paid quarterly 2: a number to be divided by another number 3: a bonus; something extra (especially a share of a surplus) -
enlightened
adj 1: having knowledge and spiritual insight [ant: unenlightened] 2: characterized by full comprehension of the problem involved; "an educated guess"; "an enlightened electorate" [syn: educated, enlightened] n 1: people who have been introduced to the mysteries of some field or activity; "it is very familiar to the initiate" [syn: initiate, enlightened] [ant: uninitiate] -
errand
n 1: a short trip that is taken in the performance of a necessary task or mission -
fecund
adj 1: capable of producing offspring or vegetation 2: intellectually productive; "a prolific writer"; "a fecund imagination" [syn: fecund, fertile, prolific] -
fond
adj 1: having or displaying warmth or affection; "affectionate children"; "a fond embrace"; "fond of his nephew"; "a tender glance"; "a warm embrace" [syn: affectionate, fond, lovesome, tender, warm] 2: extravagantly or foolishly loving and indulgent; "adoring grandparents"; "deceiving her preoccupied and doting husband with a young captain"; "hopelessly spoiled by a fond mother" [syn: adoring, doting, fond] 3: (followed by `of' or `to') having a strong preference or liking for; "fond of chocolate"; "partial to horror movies" [syn: fond(p), partial(p)] 4: absurd or silly because unlikely; "fond hopes of becoming President"; "fond fancies" -
frond
n 1: compound leaf of a fern or palm or cycad -
gourmand
n 1: a person who is devoted to eating and drinking to excess [syn: glutton, gourmand, gourmandizer, trencherman] -
hearken
v 1: listen; used mostly in the imperative [syn: hark, harken, hearken] -
husband
n 1: a married man; a woman's partner in marriage [syn: husband, hubby, married man] [ant: married woman, wife] v 1: use cautiously and frugally; "I try to economize my spare time"; "conserve your energy for the ascent to the summit" [syn: conserve, husband, economize, economise] [ant: blow, squander, waste] -
impassioned
adj 1: characterized by intense emotion; "ardent love"; "an ardent lover"; "a fervent desire to change society"; "a fervent admirer"; "fiery oratory"; "an impassioned appeal"; "a torrid love affair" [syn: ardent, fervent, fervid, fiery, impassioned, perfervid, torrid] -
jocund
adj 1: full of or showing high-spirited merriment; "when hearts were young and gay"; "a poet could not but be gay, in such a jocund company"- Wordsworth; "the jolly crowd at the reunion"; "jolly old Saint Nick"; "a jovial old gentleman"; "have a merry Christmas"; "peals of merry laughter"; "a mirthful laugh" [syn: gay, jocund, jolly, jovial, merry, mirthful] -
legend
n 1: a story about mythical or supernatural beings or events [syn: legend, fable] 2: brief description accompanying an illustration [syn: caption, legend] -
lichen
n 1: any of several eruptive skin diseases characterized by hard thick lesions grouped together and resembling lichens growing on rocks 2: any thallophytic plant of the division Lichenes; occur as crusty patches or bushy growths on tree trunks or rocks or bare ground etc. -
liken
v 1: consider or describe as similar, equal, or analogous; "We can compare the Han dynasty to the Romans"; "You cannot equate success in financial matters with greed" [syn: compare, liken, equate] -
microsecond
n 1: one millionth (10^-6) of a second; one thousandth of a millisecond -
millisecond
n 1: one thousandth (10^-3) of a second [syn: millisecond, msec] -
millpond
n 1: a pond formed by damming a stream to provide a head of water to turn a mill wheel -
nanosecond
n 1: one billionth (10^-9) of a second; one thousandth of a microsecond -
oaken
adj 1: consisting of or made of wood of the oak tree; "a solid oak table"; "the old oaken bucket" -
ordinand
n 1: a person being ordained -
paean
n 1: a formal expression of praise [syn: encomium, eulogy, panegyric, paean, pean] 2: (ancient Greece) a hymn of praise (especially one sung in ancient Greece to invoke or thank a deity) [syn: paean, pean] -
patterned
adj 1: having patterns (especially colorful patterns) [ant: plain, unpatterned] -
picosecond
n 1: one trillionth (10^-12) of a second; one thousandth of a nanosecond -
pond
n 1: a small lake; "the pond was too small for sailing" [syn: pond, pool] -
prebend
n 1: the stipend assigned by a cathedral to a canon -
quicken
v 1: move faster; "The car accelerated" [syn: accelerate, speed up, speed, quicken] [ant: decelerate, retard, slow, slow down, slow up] 2: make keen or more acute; "whet my appetite" [syn: whet, quicken] 3: give life or energy to; "The cold water invigorated him" [syn: quicken, invigorate] 4: show signs of life; "the fetus quickened" 5: give new life or energy to; "A hot soup will revive me"; "This will renovate my spirits"; "This treatment repaired my health" [syn: animate, recreate, reanimate, revive, renovate, repair, quicken, vivify, revivify] -
reckon
v 1: expect, believe, or suppose; "I imagine she earned a lot of money with her new novel"; "I thought to find her in a bad state"; "he didn't think to find her in the kitchen"; "I guess she is angry at me for standing her up" [syn: think, opine, suppose, imagine, reckon, guess] 2: judge to be probable [syn: calculate, estimate, reckon, count on, figure, forecast] 3: deem to be; "She views this quite differently from me"; "I consider her to be shallow"; "I don't see the situation quite as negatively as you do" [syn: see, consider, reckon, view, regard] 4: make a mathematical calculation or computation [syn: calculate, cipher, cypher, compute, work out, reckon, figure] 5: have faith or confidence in; "you can count on me to help you any time"; "Look to your friends for support"; "You can bet on that!"; "Depend on your family in times of crisis" [syn: count, bet, depend, look, calculate, reckon] 6: take account of; "You have to reckon with our opponents"; "Count on the monsoon" [syn: reckon, count] -
respond
v 1: show a response or a reaction to something [syn: react, respond] 2: react verbally; "She didn't want to answer"; "answer the question"; "We answered that we would accept the invitation" [syn: answer, reply, respond] 3: respond favorably or as hoped; "The cancer responded to the aggressive therapy" -
riband
n 1: a ribbon used as a decoration [syn: riband, ribband] -
rubicund
adj 1: inclined to a healthy reddish color often associated with outdoor life; "a ruddy complexion"; "Santa's rubicund cheeks"; "a fresh and sanguine complexion" [syn: rubicund, ruddy, florid, sanguine] -
shaken
adj 1: disturbed psychologically as if by a physical jolt or shock; "retrieved his named from her jolted memory"; "the accident left her badly shaken" [syn: jolted, shaken] -
shrunken
adj 1: lean and wrinkled by shrinkage as from age or illness; "the old woman's shriveled skin"; "he looked shriveled and ill"; "a shrunken old man"; "a lanky scarecrow of a man with withered face and lantern jaws"-W.F.Starkie; "he did well despite his withered arm"; "a wizened little man with frizzy grey hair" [syn: shriveled, shrivelled, shrunken, withered, wizen, wizened] 2: reduced in efficacy or vitality or intensity; "our shriveled receipts during the storm"; "as the project wore on she found her enthusiasm shriveled"; "the dollar's shrunken buying power" [syn: shriveled, shrivelled, shrunken] -
sicken
v 1: cause aversion in; offend the moral sense of; "The pornographic pictures sickened us" [syn: disgust, revolt, nauseate, sicken, churn up] 2: get sick; "She fell sick last Friday, and now she is in the hospital" [syn: sicken, come down] 3: upset and make nauseated; "The smell of the food turned the pregnant woman's stomach"; "The mold on the food sickened the diners" [syn: sicken, nauseate, turn one's stomach] 4: make sick or ill; "This kind of food sickens me" -
slacken
v 1: become slow or slower; "Production slowed" [syn: slow, slow down, slow up, slack, slacken] 2: make less active or fast; "He slackened his pace as he got tired"; "Don't relax your efforts now" [syn: slack, slacken, slack up, relax] 3: become looser or slack; "the rope slackened" 4: make slack as by lessening tension or firmness [syn: slacken, remit] -
spoken
adj 1: uttered through the medium of speech or characterized by speech; sometimes used in combination; "a spoken message"; "the spoken language"; "a soft-spoken person"; "sharp-spoken" [ant: written] -
stricken
adj 1: grievously affected especially by disease [syn: afflicted, stricken] 2: (used in combination) affected by something overwhelming; "conscience-smitten"; "awe-struck" [syn: smitten, stricken, struck] 3: put out of action (by illness) [syn: laid low(p), stricken] -
sweetened
adj 1: with sweetening added [syn: sugared, sweetened, sweet, sweet-flavored] -
taken
adj 1: understood in a certain way; made sense of; "a word taken literally"; "a smile taken as consent"; "an open door interpreted as an invitation" [syn: interpreted, taken] 2: be affected with an indisposition; "the child was taken ill"; "couldn't tell when he would be taken drunk" -
thicken
v 1: make thick or thicker; "Thicken the sauce"; "inspissate the tar so that it becomes pitch" [syn: thicken, inspissate] [ant: thin] 2: become thick or thicker; "The sauce thickened"; "The egg yolk will inspissate" [syn: thicken, inspissate] [ant: thin] 3: make viscous or dense; "thicken the sauce by adding flour" [syn: thicken, inspissate] -
thousand
adj 1: denoting a quantity consisting of 1,000 items or units [syn: thousand, one thousand, 1000, m, k] n 1: the cardinal number that is the product of 10 and 100 [syn: thousand, one thousand, 1000, M, K, chiliad, G, grand, thou, yard] -
threatened
adj 1: (of flora or fauna) likely in the near future to become endangered; "the spotted owl is a threatened species, not yet an endangered one" -
token
adj 1: 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] n 1: an individual instance of a type of symbol; "the word`error' contains three tokens of `r'" [syn: token, item] 2: something serving as a sign of something else 3: a metal or plastic disk that can be redeemed or used in designated slot machines 4: something of sentimental value [syn: keepsake, souvenir, token, relic] -
unconditioned
adj 1: not established by conditioning or learning; "an unconditioned reflex" [syn: unconditioned, innate, unlearned] [ant: conditioned, learned] 2: not conditional; "unconditional surrender" [syn: unconditional, unconditioned] [ant: conditional] -
undetermined
adj 1: not yet having been ascertained or determined; "of undetermined species" [ant: determined] 2: not precisely determined or established; not fixed or known in advance; "of indeterminate age"; "a zillion is a large indeterminate number"; "an indeterminate point of law"; "the influence of environment is indeterminate"; "an indeterminate future" [syn: indeterminate, undetermined] [ant: determinate] 3: not brought to a conclusion; subject to further thought; "an open question"; "our position on this bill is still undecided"; "our lawsuit is still undetermined" [syn: open, undecided, undetermined, unresolved] -
ungoverned
adj 1: not restrained or controlled; "unbridled rage"; "an unchecked temper"; "ungoverned rage" [syn: unbridled, unchecked, uncurbed, ungoverned] 2: lacking in discipline or control; "undisciplined behavior"; "ungoverned youth" [syn: undisciplined, ungoverned] -
unleavened
adj 1: made without leavening; "unleavened bread is often simply flour mixed with water" [syn: unleavened, unraised] [ant: leavened] -
unquestioned
adj 1: generally agreed upon; not subject to dispute; "the undisputed fact" [syn: undisputed, unchallenged, unquestioned] -
unseasoned
adj 1: not aged or processed; "unseasoned timber" [ant: seasoned] 2: without salt or seasoning [syn: unsalted, unseasoned] 3: not tried or tested by experience; "unseasoned artillery volunteers"; "still untested in battle"; "an illustrator untried in mural painting"; "a young hand at plowing" [syn: unseasoned, untested, untried, young] -
vagabond
adj 1: wandering aimlessly without ties to a place or community; "led a vagabond life"; "a rootless wanderer" [syn: rootless, vagabond] 2: continually changing especially as from one abode or occupation to another; "a drifting double-dealer"; "the floating population"; "vagrant hippies of the sixties" [syn: aimless, drifting, floating, vagabond, vagrant] n 1: anything that resembles a vagabond in having no fixed place; "pirate ships were vagabonds of the sea" 2: a wanderer who has no established residence or visible means of support [syn: vagrant, drifter, floater, vagabond] v 1: move about aimlessly or without any destination, often in search of food or employment; "The gypsies roamed the woods"; "roving vagabonds"; "the wandering Jew"; "The cattle roam across the prairie"; "the laborers drift from one town to the next"; "They rolled from town to town" [syn: roll, wander, swan, stray, tramp, roam, cast, ramble, rove, range, drift, vagabond] -
viand
n 1: a choice or delicious dish -
waken
v 1: cause to become awake or conscious; "He was roused by the drunken men in the street"; "Please wake me at 6 AM." [syn: awaken, wake, waken, rouse, wake up, arouse] [ant: cause to sleep] 2: stop sleeping; "She woke up to the sound of the alarm clock" [syn: wake up, awake, arouse, awaken, wake, come alive, waken] [ant: dope off, doze off, drift off, drop off, drowse off, fall asleep, flake out, nod off] -
wand
n 1: a rod used by a magician or water diviner 2: a thin supple twig or rod; "stems bearing slender wands of flowers" 3: a ceremonial or emblematic staff [syn: scepter, sceptre, verge, wand] 4: a thin tapered rod used by a conductor to lead an orchestra or choir [syn: baton, wand] -
weakened
adj 1: impaired by diminution [syn: diminished, lessened, vitiated, weakened] 2: made weak or weaker 3: reduced in strength; "the faded tones of an old recording" [syn: attenuate, attenuated, faded, weakened] 4: mixed with water; "sold cut whiskey"; "a cup of thinned soup" [syn: cut, thinned, weakened] 5: damaged inanimate objects or their value [syn: hurt, weakened] -
whitened
adj 1: (of hair) having lost its color; "the white hairs of old age" [syn: white, whitened] -
wizened
adj 1: lean and wrinkled by shrinkage as from age or illness; "the old woman's shriveled skin"; "he looked shriveled and ill"; "a shrunken old man"; "a lanky scarecrow of a man with withered face and lantern jaws"-W.F.Starkie; "he did well despite his withered arm"; "a wizened little man with frizzy grey hair" [syn: shriveled, shrivelled, shrunken, withered, wizen, wizened] -
flection
n 1: the state of being flexed (as of a joint) [syn: flexure, flection, flexion] 2: deviation from a straight or normal course [syn: inflection, flection, flexion] -
gironde
n 1: the French moderate political party that was in power (1791-1793) during the French Revolution -
caribbean
n 1: an arm of the Atlantic Ocean between North and South America; the origin of the Gulf stream [syn: Caribbean, Caribbean Sea] 2: region including the Caribbean Islands -
ferdinand
n 1: the king of Castile and Aragon who ruled jointly with his wife Isabella; his marriage to Isabella I in 1469 marked the beginning of the modern state of Spain and their capture of Granada from the Moors in 1492 united Spain as one country; they instituted the Spanish Inquisition in 1478 and supported the expedition of Christopher Columbus in 1492 (1452-1516) [syn: Ferdinand, King Ferdinand, Ferdinand of Aragon, Ferdinand V, Ferdinand the Catholic] -
overfond
adj 1: excessively fond -
andean
adj 1: relating to the Andes and their inhabitants -
streisand
n 1: United States singer and actress (born in 1942) [syn: Streisand, Barbra Streisand, Barbra Joan Streisand] -
pekan
n 1: large dark brown North American arboreal carnivorous mammal [syn: fisher, pekan, fisher cat, black cat, Martes pennanti] -
ligand
n 1: a substance (an atom or molecule or radical or ion) that forms a complex around a central atom -
dortmund
n 1: an industrial city in northwestern Germany; flourished from the 13th to 17th century as a member of the Hanseatic League -
osmund
n 1: any fern of the genus Osmunda: large ferns with creeping rhizomes; naked sporangia are on modified fronds that resemble flower clusters [syn: flowering fern, osmund] -
richmond
n 1: capital of the state of Virginia located in the east central part of the state; was capital of the Confederacy during the American Civil War [syn: Richmond, capital of Virginia] -
unsanctioned
adj 1: without explicit official permission; "unsanctioned use of company cars" -
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