drags (verb)
31Mooring (watercraft) — A dockworker places a mooring line on a bollard. A vessel is said to be moored when it is fastened to a fixed object such as a bollard, pier, quay or the seabed, or to a floating object such as an anchor buoy. Mooring is often accomplished using… …
32Fleet — may refer to:Places Fleet is a geographical name: *Fleet, a village in Dorset, England, sited on The Fleet, a lagoon *Fleet, in the county of Hampshire, England * a Fleet, in Kent, inlet, creek, a name for saline waterways in the Thames marshes * …
33Michelangelo Signorile — Signorile in 2011 at the book launch party for Michael Musto s Fork on the Left, Knife in the Back Born December 19, 1960 (1960 12 19) …
34Troilus — [ Etruscan fresco, Tomb of the Bulls, Tarquinia, c540 530BC.] Troilus (also Troilos, Troylus) (Ancient Greek: Τρωίλος, Troïlos, Latin: Troilus) is a legendary character associated with the story of the Trojan War. The first surviving reference to …
35Whirligig — A whirligig is an object that spins or whirls, or has at least one member that spins or whirls in the wind. The word, derived from the verb to whirl, is known in English since 1440, originally for various spinning toys. [The Oxford English… …
36Apocalypse — Apocalypse † Catholic Encyclopedia ► Apocalypse Apocalypse, from the verb apokalypto, to reveal, is the name given to the last book in the Bible. It is also called the Book of Revelation. Although a Christian work, the Apocalypse… …
37European polecat — This article is about a species of mammal referred to as polecat . For other uses, see Polecat (disambiguation). European polecat Temporal range: Middle Pleistocene – Recent Welsh polecat (Mustela p. anglia) at the British Wildlife Centre,… …
38Polis and its culture (The) — The polis and its culture Robin Osborne INTRODUCTION ‘We love wisdom without becoming soft’, Thucydides has the Athenian politician Pericles claim, using the verb philosophein.1 Claims to, and respect for, wisdom in archaic Greece were by no… …
39drag on — PHRASAL VERB (disapproval) You say that an event or process drags on when you disapprove of the fact that it lasts for longer than necessary. [V P] The conflict with James has dragged on for two years …
40drag up — PHRASAL VERB If someone drags up an unpleasant event or an old story from the past, they mention it when people do not want to be reminded of it. [V P n (not pron)] I don t want to go back there and drag up that anger again... [V P n (not pron)]… …
