to make few
111aulos — /aw los/, n., pl. auloi / loy/. an ancient Greek wind instrument, a double pipe played with a double reed. [ < Gk aulós tube, pipe, flute] * * * Single or double reed pipe usually played in pairs, particularly in ancient Greece. During the… …
112ὠλιγοποίησεν — ὀλιγοποιέω make few aor ind act 3rd sg …
113Cosmetics — Make up redirects here. For other uses, see Make up (disambiguation). For other uses, see Cosmetic (disambiguation). Assorted cosmetics and tools …
114List of English words of Finnish origin — Few words of Finnish origin have entered other languages. On the contrary, the language is a rather a net importer of words. NOTOC Words lent to the English languageFinnish has lent few words to the English language. The most commonly used… …
115Khrushchev, Nikita — Few errors make a publication look more careless than misspelling the name of a world leader, and few leaders’ names have been misspelled more frequently or variously than that of the late Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev. Note that the surname… …
116Khrushchev, Nikita — Few errors make a publication look more careless than misspelling the name of a world leader, and few leaders names have been misspelled more frequently or variously than that of the late Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev. Note that the surname… …
117run for it — (make a) run for it to hurry away from something. We d better run for it or we ll get wet. After a few days in the prison camp, Riney decided to make a run for it …
118crank out — make, write, manufacture Can you crank out a few jokes for our school newspaper? …
119caterpillars — Make but few appearances in English lore, in most cases as one of the many small creatures who must be sacrificed to cure someone of whooping cough or, in at least one instance, the ague. The usual procedure is to tie the caterpillar in a bag… …
120United States — a republic in the N Western Hemisphere comprising 48 conterminous states, the District of Columbia, and Alaska in North America, and Hawaii in the N Pacific. 267,954,767; conterminous United States, 3,022,387 sq. mi. (7,827,982 sq. km); with… …
