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become
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v 1: enter or assume a certain state or condition; "He became
annoyed when he heard the bad news"; "It must be getting
more serious"; "her face went red with anger"; "She went
into ecstasy"; "Get going!" [syn: become, go, get]
2: undergo a change or development; "The water turned into ice";
"Her former friend became her worst enemy"; "He turned
traitor" [syn: become, turn]
3: come into existence; "What becomes has duration"
4: enhance the appearance of; "Mourning becomes Electra"; "This
behavior doesn't suit you!" [syn: become, suit]
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bum
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adj 1: of very poor quality; flimsy [syn: bum, cheap,
cheesy, chintzy, crummy, punk, sleazy, tinny]
n 1: a person who is deemed to be despicable or contemptible;
"only a rotter would do that"; "kill the rat"; "throw the
bum out"; "you cowardly little pukes!"; "the British call a
contemptible person a `git'" [syn: rotter, dirty dog,
rat, skunk, stinker, stinkpot, bum, puke,
crumb, lowlife, scum bag, so-and-so, git]
2: a disreputable vagrant; "a homeless tramp"; "he tried to help
the really down-and-out bums" [syn: tramp, hobo, bum]
3: person who does no work; "a lazy bum" [syn: idler,
loafer, do-nothing, layabout, bum]
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]
v 1: ask for and get free; be a parasite [syn: mooch, bum,
cadge, grub, sponge]
2: be lazy or idle; "Her son is just bumming around all day"
[syn: bum, bum around, bum about, arse around, arse
about, fuck off, loaf, frig around, waste one's
time, lounge around, loll, loll around, lounge
about]
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bunkum
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n 1: unacceptable behavior (especially ludicrously false
statements) [syn: bunk, bunkum, buncombe, guff,
rot, hogwash]
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chum
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n 1: a close friend who accompanies his buddies in their
activities [syn: buddy, brother, chum, crony,
pal, sidekick]
2: bait consisting of chopped fish and fish oils that are dumped
overboard to attract fish
3: a large Pacific salmon with small spots on its back; an
important food fish [syn: chum salmon, chum,
Oncorhynchus keta]
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come
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n 1: the thick white fluid containing spermatozoa that is
ejaculated by the male genital tract [syn: semen, seed,
seminal fluid, ejaculate, cum, come]
v 1: move toward, travel toward something or somebody or
approach something or somebody; "He came singing down the
road"; "Come with me to the Casbah"; "come down here!";
"come out of the closet!"; "come into the room" [syn:
come, come up] [ant: depart, go, go away]
2: reach a destination; arrive by movement or progress; "She
arrived home at 7 o'clock"; "She didn't get to Chicago until
after midnight" [syn: arrive, get, come] [ant: go
away, go forth, leave]
3: come to pass; arrive, as in due course; "The first success
came three days later"; "It came as a shock"; "Dawn comes
early in June"
4: reach or enter a state, relation, condition, use, or
position; "The water came to a boil"; "We came to understand
the true meaning of life"; "Their anger came to a boil"; "I
came to realize the true meaning of life"; "The shoes came
untied"; "come into contact with a terrorist group"; "his
face went red"; "your wish will come true"
5: to be the product or result; "Melons come from a vine";
"Understanding comes from experience" [syn: come, follow]
6: be found or available; "These shoes come in three colors; The
furniture comes unassembled"
7: come forth; "A scream came from the woman's mouth"; "His
breath came hard" [syn: issue forth, come]
8: be a native of; "She hails from Kalamazoo" [syn: hail,
come]
9: extend or reach; "The water came up to my waist"; "The
sleeves come to your knuckles"
10: exist or occur in a certain point in a series; "Next came
the student from France"
11: cover a certain distance; "She came a long way"
12: come under, be classified or included; "fall into a
category"; "This comes under a new heading" [syn: fall,
come]
13: happen as a result; "Nothing good will come of this"
14: add up in number or quantity; "The bills amounted to
$2,000"; "The bill came to $2,000" [syn: total, number,
add up, come, amount]
15: develop into; "This idea will never amount to anything";
"nothing came of his grandiose plans" [syn: come, add
up, amount]
16: be received; "News came in of the massacre in Rwanda" [syn:
come, come in]
17: come to one's mind; suggest itself; "It occurred to me that
we should hire another secretary"; "A great idea then came
to her" [syn: occur, come]
18: come from; be connected by a relationship of blood, for
example; "She was descended from an old Italian noble
family"; "he comes from humble origins" [syn: derive,
come, descend]
19: proceed or get along; "How is she doing in her new job?";
"How are you making out in graduate school?"; "He's come a
long way" [syn: do, fare, make out, come, get
along]
20: experience orgasm; "she could not come because she was too
upset"
21: have a certain priority; "My family comes first"
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cum
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n 1: the thick white fluid containing spermatozoa that is
ejaculated by the male genital tract [syn: semen, seed,
seminal fluid, ejaculate, cum, come]
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drum
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n 1: a musical percussion instrument; usually consists of a
hollow cylinder with a membrane stretched across each end
[syn: drum, membranophone, tympan]
2: the sound of a drum; "he could hear the drums before he heard
the fifes"
3: a bulging cylindrical shape; hollow with flat ends [syn:
barrel, drum]
4: a cylindrical metal container used for shipping or storage of
liquids [syn: drum, metal drum]
5: a hollow cast-iron cylinder attached to the wheel that forms
part of the brakes [syn: brake drum, drum]
6: small to medium-sized bottom-dwelling food and game fishes of
shallow coastal and fresh waters that make a drumming noise
[syn: drum, drumfish]
v 1: make a rhythmic sound; "Rain drummed against the
windshield"; "The drums beat all night" [syn: drum,
beat, thrum]
2: play a percussion instrument
3: study intensively, as before an exam; "I had to bone up on my
Latin verbs before the final exam" [syn: cram, grind
away, drum, bone up, swot, get up, mug up, swot
up, bone]
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glum
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adj 1: moody and melancholic
2: 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]
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guaiacum
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n 1: medicinal resin from the lignum vitae tree
2: hard greenish-brown wood of the lignum vitae tree and other
trees of the genus Guaiacum [syn: lignum vitae, guaiac,
guaiacum]
3: small genus of evergreen resinous trees or shrubs of warm and
tropical America [syn: Guaiacum, genus Guaiacum]
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hokum
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n 1: a message that seems to convey no meaning [syn: nonsense,
bunk, nonsensicality, meaninglessness, hokum]
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home
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adv 1: at or to or in the direction of one's home or family; "He
stays home on weekends"; "after the game the children
brought friends home for supper"; "I'll be home
tomorrow"; "came riding home in style"; "I hope you will
come home for Christmas"; "I'll take her home"; "don't
forget to write home"
2: on or to the point aimed at; "the arrow struck home"
3: to the fullest extent; to the heart; "drove the nail home";
"drove his point home"; "his comments hit home"
adj 1: used of your own ground; "a home game" [ant: away]
2: relating to or being where one lives or where one's roots
are; "my home town"
3: inside the country; "the British Home Office has broader
responsibilities than the United States Department of the
Interior"; "the nation's internal politics" [syn: home(a),
interior(a), internal, national]
n 1: where you live at a particular time; "deliver the package
to my home"; "he doesn't have a home to go to"; "your place
or mine?" [syn: home, place]
2: housing that someone is living in; "he built a modest
dwelling near the pond"; "they raise money to provide homes
for the homeless" [syn: dwelling, home, domicile,
abode, habitation, dwelling house]
3: the country or state or city where you live; "Canadian
tariffs enabled United States lumber companies to raise
prices at home"; "his home is New Jersey"
4: (baseball) base consisting of a rubber slab where the batter
stands; it must be touched by a base runner in order to
score; "he ruled that the runner failed to touch home" [syn:
home plate, home base, home, plate]
5: the place where you are stationed and from which missions
start and end [syn: base, home]
6: place where something began and flourished; "the United
States is the home of basketball"
7: an environment offering affection and security; "home is
where the heart is"; "he grew up in a good Christian home";
"there's no place like home"
8: a social unit living together; "he moved his family to
Virginia"; "It was a good Christian household"; "I waited
until the whole house was asleep"; "the teacher asked how
many people made up his home" [syn: family, household,
house, home, menage]
9: an institution where people are cared for; "a home for the
elderly" [syn: home, nursing home, rest home]
v 1: provide with, or send to, a home
2: return home accurately from a long distance; "homing pigeons"
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income
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n 1: the financial gain (earned or unearned) accruing over a
given period of time [ant: expenditure, outgo,
outlay, spending]
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locum
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n 1: someone (physician or clergyman) who substitutes
temporarily for another member of the same profession [syn:
locum tenens, locum]
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modicum
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n 1: a small or moderate or token amount; "England still expects
a modicum of eccentricity in its artists"- Ian Jack
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numb
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adj 1: lacking sensation; "my foot is asleep"; "numb with cold"
[syn: asleep(p), benumbed, numb]
2: (followed by `to') not showing human feeling or sensitivity;
unresponsive; "passersby were dead to our plea for help";
"numb to the cries for mercy" [syn: dead(p), numb(p)]
3: so frightened as to be unable to move; stunned or paralyzed
with terror; petrified; "too numb with fear to move"
v 1: make numb or insensitive; "The shock numbed her senses"
[syn: numb, benumb, blunt, dull]
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oakum
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n 1: loose hemp or jute fiber obtained by unravelling old ropes;
when impregnated with tar it was used to caulk seams and
pack joints in wooden ships
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outcome
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n 1: something that results; "he listened for the results on the
radio" [syn: result, resultant, final result,
outcome, termination]
2: a phenomenon that follows and is caused by some previous
phenomenon; "the magnetic effect was greater when the rod was
lengthwise"; "his decision had depressing consequences for
business"; "he acted very wise after the event" [syn:
consequence, effect, outcome, result, event,
issue, upshot]
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plum
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adv 1: exactly; "fell plumb in the middle of the puddle" [syn:
plumb, plum]
2: completely; used as intensifiers; "clean forgot the
appointment"; "I'm plumb (or plum) tuckered out" [syn:
clean, plumb, plum]
n 1: any of several trees producing edible oval fruit having a
smooth skin and a single hard stone [syn: plum, plum
tree]
2: any of numerous varieties of small to medium-sized round or
oval fruit having a smooth skin and a single pit
3: a highly desirable position or assignment; "a political plum"
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plumb
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adv 1: completely; used as intensifiers; "clean forgot the
appointment"; "I'm plumb (or plum) tuckered out" [syn:
clean, plumb, plum]
2: conforming to the direction of a plumb line
3: exactly; "fell plumb in the middle of the puddle" [syn:
plumb, plum]
adj 1: exactly vertical; "the tower of Pisa is far out of plumb"
n 1: the metal bob of a plumb line [syn: plumb bob, plumb,
plummet]
v 1: measure the depth of something
2: weight with lead
3: examine thoroughly and in great depth
4: adjust with a plumb line so as to make vertical
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rhumb
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n 1: a line on a sphere that cuts all meridians at the same
angle; the path taken by a ship or plane that maintains a
constant compass direction [syn: rhumb line, rhumb,
loxodrome]
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rum
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adj 1: beyond or deviating from the usual or expected; "a
curious hybrid accent"; "her speech has a funny twang";
"they have some funny ideas about war"; "had an odd
name"; "the peculiar aromatic odor of cloves"; "something
definitely queer about this town"; "what a rum fellow";
"singular behavior" [syn: curious, funny, odd,
peculiar, queer, rum, rummy, singular]
n 1: liquor distilled from fermented molasses
2: a card game based on collecting sets and sequences; the
winner is the first to meld all their cards [syn: rummy,
rum]
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scrum
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n 1: (rugby) the method of beginning play in which the forwards
of each team crouch side by side with locked arms; play
starts when the ball is thrown in between them and the two
sides compete for possession [syn: scrum, scrummage]
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scum
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n 1: worthless people [syn: trash, scum]
2: a film of impurities or vegetation that can form on the
surface of a liquid
v 1: remove the scum from
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slum
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n 1: a district of a city marked by poverty and inferior living
conditions [syn: slum, slum area]
v 1: spend time at a lower socio-economic level than one's own,
motivated by curiosity or desire for adventure; usage
considered condescending and insensitive; "attending a
motion picture show by the upper class was considered
sluming in the early 20th century"
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some
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adv 1: (of quantities) imprecise but fairly close to correct;
"lasted approximately an hour"; "in just about a minute";
"he's about 30 years old"; "I've had about all I can
stand"; "we meet about once a month"; "some forty people
came"; "weighs around a hundred pounds"; "roughly
$3,000"; "holds 3 gallons, more or less"; "20 or so
people were at the party" [syn: approximately, about,
close to, just about, some, roughly, more or
less, around, or so]
adj 1: quantifier; used with either mass nouns or plural count
nouns to indicate an unspecified number or quantity;
"have some milk"; "some roses were still blooming";
"having some friends over"; "some apples"; "some paper"
[ant: all(a), no(a)]
2: relatively much but unspecified in amount or extent; "we
talked for some time"; "he was still some distance away"
3: relatively many but unspecified in number; "they were here
for some weeks"; "we did not meet again for some years"
4: remarkable; "that was some party"; "she is some skier"
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strum
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n 1: sound of strumming; "the strum of a guitar"
v 1: sound the strings of (a string instrument); "strum a
guitar" [syn: strum, thrum]
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succumb
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v 1: consent reluctantly [syn: yield, give in, succumb,
knuckle under, buckle under]
2: be fatally overwhelmed [syn: succumb, yield] [ant: come
through, make it, pull round, pull through, survive]
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sum
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n 1: a quantity of money; "he borrowed a large sum"; "the amount
he had in cash was insufficient" [syn: sum, sum of
money, amount, amount of money]
2: a quantity obtained by the addition of a group of numbers
[syn: sum, amount, total]
3: the final aggregate; "the sum of all our troubles did not
equal the misery they suffered" [syn: sum, summation,
sum total]
4: the choicest or most essential or most vital part of some
idea or experience; "the gist of the prosecutor's argument";
"the heart and soul of the Republican Party"; "the nub of the
story" [syn: kernel, substance, core, center,
centre, essence, gist, heart, heart and soul,
inwardness, marrow, meat, nub, pith, sum, nitty-
gritty]
5: the whole amount [syn: sum, total, totality,
aggregate]
6: a set containing all and only the members of two or more
given sets; "let C be the union of the sets A and B" [syn:
union, sum, join]
v 1: be a summary of; "The abstract summarizes the main ideas in
the paper" [syn: summarize, summarise, sum, sum up]
2: determine the sum of; "Add all the people in this town to
those of the neighboring town" [syn: total, tot, tot
up, sum, sum up, summate, tote up, add, add
together, tally, add up]
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talcum
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n 1: a fine grained mineral having a soft soapy feel and
consisting of hydrated magnesium silicate; used in a
variety of products including talcum powder [syn: talc,
talcum]
2: a toilet powder made of purified talc and usually scented;
absorbs excess moisture [syn: talcum, talcum powder]
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thrum
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n 1: a thrumming sound; "he could hear the thrum of a banjo"
v 1: sound with a monotonous hum [syn: hum, thrum]
2: sound the strings of (a string instrument); "strum a guitar"
[syn: strum, thrum]
3: make a rhythmic sound; "Rain drummed against the windshield";
"The drums beat all night" [syn: drum, beat, thrum]
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thumb
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n 1: the thick short innermost digit of the forelimb [syn:
thumb, pollex]
2: the part of a glove that provides a covering for the thumb
3: a convex molding having a cross section in the form of a
quarter of a circle or of an ellipse [syn: ovolo, thumb,
quarter round]
v 1: travel by getting free rides from motorists [syn:
hitchhike, hitch, thumb]
2: look through a book or other written material; "He thumbed
through the report"; "She leafed through the volume" [syn:
flick, flip, thumb, riffle, leaf, riff]
3: feel or handle with the fingers; "finger the binding of the
book" [syn: finger, thumb]
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unwelcome
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adj 1: not welcome; not giving pleasure or received with
pleasure; "unwelcome publicity"; "unwelcome
interruptions"; "unwelcome visitors" [ant: welcome]
2: not welcome; "unwelcome publicity" [syn: unwelcome,
unwished, unwished-for]
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welcome
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adj 1: giving pleasure or satisfaction or received with pleasure
or freely granted; "a welcome relief"; "a welcome guest";
"made the children feel welcome"; "you are welcome to
join us" [ant: unwelcome]
n 1: the state of being welcome; "don't outstay your welcome"
2: a greeting or reception; "the proposal got a warm welcome"
v 1: accept gladly; "I welcome your proposals"
2: bid welcome to; greet upon arrival [syn: welcome,
receive] [ant: say farewell]
3: receive someone, as into one's house
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capsicum
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n 1: any of various tropical plants of the genus Capsicum
bearing peppers [syn: capsicum, pepper, capsicum
pepper plant]
2: chiefly tropical perennial shrubby plants having many-seeded
fruits: sweet and hot peppers [syn: genus Capsicum,
Capsicum]
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taraxacum
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n 1: an asterid dicot genus of the family Compositae including
dandelions [syn: Taraxacum, genus Taraxacum]
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caecum
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n 1: the cavity in which the large intestine begins and into
which the ileum opens; "the appendix is an offshoot of the
cecum" [syn: cecum, caecum, blind gut]
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occam
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n 1: English scholastic philosopher and assumed author of
Occam's Razor (1285-1349) [syn: Occam, William of
Occam, Ockham, William of Ockham]
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colchicum
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n 1: chiefly fall-blooming perennial cormous herbs; sometimes
placed in family Colchicaceae [syn: Colchicum, genus
Colchicum]
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doronicum
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n 1: genus of Eurasian perennial tuberous or rhizomatous herbs:
leopard's bane [syn: Doronicum, genus Doronicum]
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hypericum
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n 1: large almost cosmopolitan genus of evergreen or deciduous
shrubs and herbs with often showy yellow flowers;
cosmopolitan except tropical lowlands and Arctic or high
altitudes and desert regions [syn: Hypericum, genus
Hypericum]
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swum
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viaticum
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brum
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stum
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ancrum
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baucum
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boyum
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beckham
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peckham
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wickham
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wellcome
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ascham
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malcolm
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slocum
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edgecombe
0
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kirkham
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holcombe
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dinkum
0
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illyricum
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