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21flesh — {{11}}flesh (n.) O.E. flæsc flesh, meat, also near kindred (a sense now obsolete except in phrase flesh and blood), common West and North Germanic (Cf. O.Fris. flesk, M.L.G. vlees, Ger. Fleisch flesh, O.N. flesk pork, bacon ), of uncertain origin …
22stock — {{11}}stock (n.1) O.E. stocc stump, post, stake, tree trunk, log, also pillory (usually plural, stocks), from P.Gmc. *stukkaz tree trunk (Cf. O.N. stokkr block of wood, trunk of a tree, O.S., O.Fris. stok, M.Du. stoc tree trunk, stump, Du. stok …
23anodyne — 1 Anodyne, analgesic, anesthetic all denote something used to relieve or prevent pain, all are freely used both substantively and adjectivally, and all have a related noun, anodynia, analgesia, anesthesia, denoting the corresponding state.… …
24death — death, decease, demise, passing denote the end or the ending of life. Death is the general word and is used for the termination of plants and animals as well as of men and also of inanimate things marked by continuity or development {the death of …
25nauseous — adjective Date: 1612 1. causing nausea or disgust ; nauseating 2. affected with nausea or disgust • nauseously adverb • nauseousness noun Usage: Those who insist that nauseous can properly be used only in sense 1 and that in sense 2 it is an… …
26kingpin — (n.) also king pin, 1801 as the name of the large pin in the game of kayles (similar to bowls except a club or stick was thrown instead of a ball; Cf. Games, Gaming and Gamesters Laws, Frederick Brandt, London, 1871), from KING (Cf. king) with a… …
27add — 1 Add, sum, total, tot, cast, figure, foot share the meaning to find or represent the amount reached by putting together arithmetically a series of numbers or quantities, and are commonly followed by up. Add is both the common and the technical… …
28maker — n Maker, creator, author denote one who brings something into being or existence. When written with an initial capital letter, all three terms designate God or the Supreme Being; without the capital they ascribe similar but not equivalent powers… …
29dumps — n.pl. colloq. depression; melancholy (in the dumps). Etymology: prob. f. LG or Du., fig. use of MDu. domp exhalation, haze, mist: rel. to DAMP * * * [dəmps] plural n. in phrase down (down) in the dumps informal …
30Javanese language — Not to be confused with Japanese language. Javanese ꦧꦱꦗꦮ (Basa Jawa) Spoken in Java (Indonesia) Peninsular Malaysia Suriname New Caledonia …
