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acolyte
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n 1: someone who assists a priest or minister in a liturgical
service; a cleric ordained in the highest of the minor
orders in the Roman Catholic Church but not in the Anglican
Church or the Eastern Orthodox Churches
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alight
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adj 1: lighted up by or as by fire or flame; "forests set ablaze
(or afire) by lightning"; "even the car's tires were
aflame"; "a night aflare with fireworks"; "candles alight
on the tables"; "houses on fire" [syn: ablaze(p),
afire(p), aflame(p), aflare(p), alight(p), on
fire(p)]
v 1: to come to rest, settle; "Misfortune lighted upon him"
[syn: alight, light, perch]
2: come down; "the birds alighted" [syn: alight, climb down]
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metabolite
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n 1: any substance involved in metabolism (either as a product
of metabolism or as necessary for metabolism)
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satellite
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adj 1: surrounding and dominated by a central authority or
power; "a city and its satellite communities"
n 1: man-made equipment that orbits around the earth or the moon
[syn: satellite, artificial satellite, orbiter]
2: a person who follows or serves another [syn: satellite,
planet]
3: any celestial body orbiting around a planet or star
v 1: broadcast or disseminate via satellite
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twilight
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adj 1: lighted by or as if by twilight; "The dusky night rides
down the sky/And ushers in the morn"-Henry Fielding; "the
twilight glow of the sky"; "a boat on a twilit river"
[syn: dusky, twilight(a), twilit]
n 1: the time of day immediately following sunset; "he loved the
twilight"; "they finished before the fall of night" [syn:
twilight, dusk, gloaming, gloam, nightfall,
evenfall, fall, crepuscule, crepuscle]
2: the diffused light from the sky when the sun is below the
horizon but its rays are refracted by the atmosphere of the
earth
3: a condition of decline following successes; "in the twilight
of the empire"
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vermiculite
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n 1: any of a group of yellow or brown hydrous silicate minerals
having a micaceous structure
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zeolite
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n 1: any of a family of glassy minerals analogous to feldspar
containing hydrated aluminum silicates of calcium or sodium
or potassium; formed in cavities in lava flows and in
plutonic rocks
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bakelite
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n 1: a thermosetting plastic used as electric insulators and for
making plastic ware and telephone receivers etc.
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jacklight
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n 1: a light used as a lure in hunting or fishing at night
v 1: hunt with a jacklight [syn: jacklight, jack]
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sodalite
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n 1: a vitreous mineral consisting of sodium aluminum silicate
and sodium chloride in crystalline form; occurs in igneous
rocks
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aerolite
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n 1: a stony meteorite consisting of silicate minerals
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carmelite
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adj 1: of or relating to the Carmelite friars; "Carmelite
monasteries"
n 1: a Roman Catholic friar wearing the white cloak of the
Carmelite order; mendicant preachers [syn: Carmelite,
White Friar]
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cellulite
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n 1: lumpy deposits of body fat especially on women's thighs
etc.
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chrysolite
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n 1: a brown or yellow-green olivine found in igneous and
metamorphic rocks and used as a gemstone
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cryolite
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n 1: a white mineral consisting of fluorides of aluminum and
sodium; a source of fluorine [syn: cryolite, Greenland
spar]
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kimberlite
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n 1: a rare type of peridotite that sometimes contains diamonds;
found in South Africa and Siberia
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lepidolite
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n 1: a mineral of the mica group; an important source of lithium
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spaceflight
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n 1: a voyage outside the Earth's atmosphere [syn:
spaceflight, space travel, spacefaring]
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graptolite
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peine
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phonolite
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corallite
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featherlight
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phacolite
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pharmacolite
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rhyacolite
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topazolite
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toxophilite
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variolite
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perlite
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