
The “vocabulary” of this dictionary referred to within the definitions of certain collocations are those words serving as headwords for main entries, and distinguished from word combinations (“collocations”) which follow the main part of certain entries. In the XML-tagged version, these headwords are marked by the tags . [ PJC ]
His vocabulary seems to have been no larger than was necessary for the transaction of business. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]
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adj. & adv. ety>[ From 24 hours per day, 7 days per week. ] Without interruption; non-stop; continuous;
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pos>n. September 11, 2001 -- the day when two airplanes hijacked by Islamic terrorists were deliberately crashed into the "twin towers" (the two 110-storey skyscrapers of the World Trade Center) in New York City, causing those buildings to collapse and much other damage in the nearby area. Another plane was crashed into the Pentagon near Washington. In total, the attacks caused nearly 3, 000 deaths. This was the worst incident of terrorism inside the United States to date. The abbreviated date
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‖n. [ D., earth-pig. ] (Zool.) An edentate mammal, of the genus
‖n. [ D, earth-wolf ] (Zool.) A carnivorous, striped, quadruped mammal (Proteles cristata, formerly Proteles Lalandii), of South Africa, resembling the fox and hyena. It feeds chiefly on insects. See Proteles. [ 1913 Webster WordNet 1.5 ]
[ See Exodus vii. 9 and Numbers xvii. 8 ]
‖n. [ The native name. ] The Manila-hemp plant (Musa textilis); also, its fiber. See
v. t. [ LL. abacinatus, p. p. of abacinare; ab off + bacinus a basin. ] To blind by a red-hot metal plate held before the eyes. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]
n. The act of abacinating. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]