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blood
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n 1: the fluid (red in vertebrates) that is pumped through the
body by the heart and contains plasma, blood cells, and
platelets; "blood carries oxygen and nutrients to the
tissues and carries away waste products"; "the ancients
believed that blood was the seat of the emotions"
2: temperament or disposition; "a person of hot blood"
3: a dissolute man in fashionable society [syn: rake,
rakehell, profligate, rip, blood, roue]
4: the descendants of one individual; "his entire lineage has
been warriors" [syn: lineage, line, line of descent,
descent, bloodline, blood line, blood, pedigree,
ancestry, origin, parentage, stemma, stock]
5: people viewed as members of a group; "we need more young
blood in this organization"
v 1: smear with blood, as in a hunting initiation rite, where
the face of a person is smeared with the blood of the kill
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bud
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n 1: a partially opened flower
2: a swelling on a plant stem consisting of overlapping immature
leaves or petals
v 1: develop buds; "The hibiscus is budding!"
2: start to grow or develop; "a budding friendship"
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chambered
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adj 1: having compartmental chambers; "a spiral chambered
seashell"
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crud
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n 1: heavy wet snow that is unsuitable for skiing
2: any substance considered disgustingly foul or unpleasant
[syn: filth, crud, skank]
3: an ill-defined bodily ailment; "he said he had the crud and
needed a doctor"
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cud
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n 1: food of a ruminant regurgitated to be chewed again [syn:
cud, rechewed food]
2: a wad of something chewable as tobacco [syn: chew, chaw,
cud, quid, plug, wad]
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cupboard
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n 1: a small room (or recess) or cabinet used for storage space
[syn: cupboard, closet]
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disbud
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v 1: thin out buds to improve the quality of the remaining
flowers
2: destroy undeveloped horn buds (of cattle)
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dud
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adj 1: failing to detonate; especially not charged with an
active explosive; "he stepped on a dud mine"
n 1: someone who is unsuccessful [syn: flop, dud, washout]
2: an explosion that fails to occur [syn: misfire, dud]
3: an event that fails badly or is totally ineffectual; "the
first experiment was a real turkey"; "the meeting was a dud
as far as new business was concerned" [syn: turkey, bomb,
dud]
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flood
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n 1: the rising of a body of water and its overflowing onto
normally dry land; "plains fertilized by annual
inundations" [syn: flood, inundation, deluge,
alluvion]
2: an overwhelming number or amount; "a flood of requests"; "a
torrent of abuse" [syn: flood, inundation, deluge,
torrent]
3: light that is a source of artificial illumination having a
broad beam; used in photography [syn: flood, floodlight,
flood lamp, photoflood]
4: a large flow [syn: flood, overflow, outpouring]
5: the act of flooding; filling to overflowing [syn: flood,
flowage]
6: the occurrence of incoming water (between a low tide and the
following high tide); "a tide in the affairs of men which,
taken at the flood, leads on to fortune" -Shakespeare [syn:
flood tide, flood, rising tide] [ant: ebbtide]
v 1: fill quickly beyond capacity; as with a liquid; "the
basement was inundated after the storm"; "The images
flooded his mind" [syn: deluge, flood, inundate,
swamp]
2: cover with liquid, usually water; "The swollen river flooded
the village"; "The broken vein had flooded blood in her eyes"
3: supply with an excess of; "flood the market with tennis
shoes"; "Glut the country with cheap imports from the Orient"
[syn: flood, oversupply, glut]
4: become filled to overflowing; "Our basement flooded during
the heavy rains"
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halberd
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n 1: a pike fitted with an ax head
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lifeblood
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n 1: the blood considered as the seat of vitality
2: an essential or life-giving force; "water is the lifeblood of
India"
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morbid
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adj 1: suggesting an unhealthy mental state; "morbid interest in
death"; "morbid curiosity"
2: suggesting the horror of death and decay; "morbid details"
[syn: ghoulish, morbid]
3: caused by or altered by or manifesting disease or pathology;
"diseased tonsils"; "a morbid growth"; "pathologic tissue";
"pathological bodily processes" [syn: diseased, morbid,
pathologic, pathological]
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mud
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n 1: water soaked soil; soft wet earth [syn: mud, clay]
2: slanderous remarks or charges
v 1: soil with mud, muck, or mire; "The child mucked up his
shirt while playing ball in the garden" [syn: mire,
muck, mud, muck up]
2: plaster with mud
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redbud
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n 1: small shrubby tree of eastern North America similar to the
Judas tree having usually pink flowers; found in damp
sheltered underwood [syn: redbud, Cercis canadensis]
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rosebud
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n 1: the bud of a rose
2: (a literary reference to) a pretty young girl
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scabbard
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n 1: a sheath for a sword or dagger or bayonet
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scud
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n 1: the act of moving along swiftly (as before a gale) [syn:
scud, scudding]
v 1: run or move very quickly or hastily; "She dashed into the
yard" [syn: dart, dash, scoot, scud, flash,
shoot]
2: run before a gale [syn: scud, rack]
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spud
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n 1: an edible tuber native to South America; a staple food of
Ireland [syn: potato, white potato, Irish potato,
murphy, spud, tater]
2: a sharp hand shovel for digging out roots and weeds [syn:
spud, stump spud]
v 1: initiate drilling operations, as for petroleum; "The well
was spudded in April"
2: produce buds, branches, or germinate; "the potatoes sprouted"
[syn: shoot, spud, germinate, pullulate, bourgeon,
burgeon forth, sprout]
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starboard
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adj 1: located on the right side of a ship or aircraft
n 1: the right side of a ship or aircraft to someone who is
aboard and facing the bow or nose [ant: larboard, port]
v 1: turn to the right, of helms or rudders
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stud
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n 1: a man who is virile and sexually active [syn: stud, he-
man, macho-man]
2: ornament consisting of a circular rounded protuberance (as on
a vault or shield or belt) [syn: stud, rivet]
3: an upright in house framing [syn: scantling, stud]
4: adult male horse kept for breeding [syn: stud, studhorse]
5: poker in which each player receives hole cards and the
remainder are dealt face up; bets are placed after each card
is dealt [syn: stud, stud poker]
v 1: scatter or intersperse like dots or studs; "Hills
constellated with lights" [syn: dot, stud,
constellate]
2: provide with or construct with studs; "stud the wall"
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thud
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n 1: a heavy dull sound (as made by impact of heavy objects)
[syn: thump, thumping, clump, clunk, thud]
v 1: make a dull sound; "the knocker thudded against the front
door" [syn: thud, thump]
2: strike with a dull sound; "Bullets were thudding against the
wall"
3: make a noise typical of an engine lacking lubricants [syn:
crump, thud, scrunch]
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unnumbered
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adj 1: too numerous to be counted; "incalculable riches";
"countless hours"; "an infinite number of reasons";
"innumerable difficulties"; "the multitudinous seas";
"myriad stars"; "untold thousands" [syn: countless,
infinite, innumerable, innumerous, multitudinous,
myriad, numberless, uncounted, unnumberable,
unnumbered, unnumerable]
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rudd
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n 1: European freshwater fish resembling the roach [syn: rudd,
Scardinius erythrophthalmus]
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larboard
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adj 1: located on the left side of a ship or aircraft [syn:
port, larboard]
n 1: the left side of a ship or aircraft to someone who is
aboard and facing the bow or nose [syn: larboard, port]
[ant: starboard]
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tribade
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n 1: a female homosexual [syn: lesbian, tribade, gay
woman]
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hubbard
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n 1: a United States writer of science fiction and founder of
Scientology (1911-1986) [syn: Hubbard, L. Ron Hubbard]
2: a mountain peak in southeastern Alaska that is part of the
Coast Range (14,950 feet high) [syn: Hubbard, Mount
Hubbard]
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budd
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budde
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flud
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fludd
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nudd
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rud
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sudd
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uhde
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ehud
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lebudde
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