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  • 42Taste the Blood of Dracula — Infobox Film name = Taste the Blood of Dracula caption = Promotional poster for Taste the Blood of Dracula director = Peter Sasdy producer = Aida Young writer = Anthony Hinds Bram Stoker (character) starring = Christopher Lee Geoffrey Keen Gwen… …

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  • 43Walk Like a Man (The Sopranos episode) — Infobox Television episode | Title = Walk Like a Man Series = The Sopranos Season = 6 Episode = 17 Guests= see below Airdate = May 6, 2007 (HBO) Production = 617 Writer = Terence Winter Director = Terence Winter Episode list = Episode chronology… …

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  • 44bush — bush1 bushless, adj. bushlike, adj. /boosh/, n. 1. a low plant with many branches that arise from or near the ground. 2. a small cluster of shrubs appearing as a single plant. 3. something resembling or suggesting this, as a thick, shaggy head of …

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  • 45bush — I [[t]bʊʃ[/t]] n. 1) bot a low plant with many branches that arise from or near the ground 2) bot a small cluster of shrubs appearing as a single plant 3) something resembling or suggesting this, as a shaggy head of hair 4) zool. a fox s tail 5)… …

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  • 46comb — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) v. t. scrape; card; dress, tease, back comb; search. See cleanness, inquiry. II (Roget s IV) n. Combs include the following hair comb, ivorycomb, currycomb, flax comb, carding knife, graining instrument; …

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  • 47forage — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. fodder, feed, food; pasturage, herbage. v. pasture, graze, feed; hunt, search, beat the bushes; raid, maraud, pillage, plunder, loot, ravage, scrounge around. See stealing, inquiry, provision. II… …

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  • 48bush — (n.) many stemmed woody plant, O.E. bysc, from W.Gmc. *busk bush, thicket (Cf. Du. bos, Ger. Busch). Influenced by or combined with cognate words from Scandinavian (Cf. Dan. busk) and O.Fr. (busche firewood, apparently of Frankish origin), and… …

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  • 49hunt — Synonyms and related words: angle for, ask for, beat, beat about for, beat the bushes, beset, burrow, capture, cast about, chase, chase out, check out, chevy, chivy, course, coursing, cynegetics, delve, delve for, dig, dig for, dog, domiciliary… …

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  • 50Experiment — (Roget s Thesaurus) < N PARAG:Experiment >N GRP: N 1 Sgm: N 1 experiment experiment Sgm: N 1 essay essay &c.(attempt) 675 Sgm: N 1 analysis analysis &c.(investigation) 461 Sgm: N 1 trial trial tentative method tΔtonnement …

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