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hoped-for or exciting. 1907 Alexander Macdonald: In The Land of Pearl and Gold "That's a bit of all right," said the guard, cutting off a piece of the stem and...

(“a bit of gold”) gullbjartr (“bright as gold”) gullborði (“gold lace”) gullbóka (“to embroider with gold”) gullbóla (“gold bull”) gullbrynja (“gold coat...

[vaːŋ˨˩ təj˧˧] (Huế) IPA(key): [vaːŋ˦˩ təj˧˧] (Saigon) IPA(key): [vaːŋ˨˩ təj˧˧] ~ [jaːŋ˨˩ təj˧˧] vàng tây an alloy of gold and a bit of copper; tumbaga...

with details, especially when fictitious. Assisi embroidery embroidery hoop gold embroidery reembroidery Russian embroidery   ornamentation fabric elaboration...

-uːn doubloon (plural doubloons) (historical, numismatics) A former Spanish gold coin, also used in its American colonies. [from early 17th c.] 1883, Robert...

2014, Dennis J. McTaggart, Cold Gold II, page 112: Derek smiled at her and said, 'That would have shut him up a bit. He thought that he was in a fish...

sang—“Little bita bread and - no - cheese! Little bit - a - bread an’ - no - cheese!” 1931 May 20, Louis Golding, “A Rosary of Lovely Places”, in The Commonweal:...

Animated Nature pyramidical rocks.] 1743, William Shenstone, Written in Spring: Gold in pyramidic plenty piled. 1821, Lord Byron, Don Juan: In mockery to the...

for West Africa, the coins originally being made of gold from the region, mostly from the 'Gold Coast' (modern Ghana) and used for African trade, and...

from Classical Malay sungkit. IPA(key): /sʊŋkɪt/ sungkit embroided with bits of gold or silver thread; the process of making songket weaving. pry out. Affixed...

dots. or:   (gold or yellow tincture): o., Or Au (chemical symbol for gold) gold or yellow tincture or (not comparable) (heraldry) Of gold or yellow tincture...

my great amusement, the dog kept on chasing its tail and yelped when it bit it. 2005, Plato, translated by Lesley Brown, Sophist, page 234a: This is...

Virginia Woolf, Jacob's Room, Chapter 1: Slowly welling from the point of her gold nib, pale blue ink dissolved the full stop; for there her pen stuck; her...

คำ • (kam) word speech (archaic, in compounds) bite (of food), morsel; bit กลุ่มคำ คำกล่าว คำคม (kam-kom) คำจำกัดความ คำชี้แจง คำตอบ (kam-dtɔ̀ɔp) คำตัดสิน...

that the 32-bit market will almost equal that of 16-bitters by the end of the decade. Chip maker Zilog Inc., not a major player in the 16-bit arena, is...

From French limaille. limaille (uncountable) (dentistry, obsolete) Bits of waste metal mixed with bone, dust, etc.; lemel. 1833, John Forbes, The Cyclopaedia...

loose-ringed bit (metal in a horse's mouth). It brings pressure to bear on the tongue and bars and corners of the mouth, and is often used as a training bit. [1877]...

(date written), Thomas Heywood, The Fair Maid of the West. Or, A Girle Worth Gold. The First Part. […], London: […] [Miles Flesher] for Richard Royston, […]...

intuitively) Han studerade guldtackan i handen. Kände dess tyngd. He studied the gold bar in his hand. Felt its weight/heaviness. vara tyngdlös be weightless (physics)...

coin and unit of currency notionally equivalent to an adarme of gold) (figurative) bit, ounce (any insignificantly small weight or amount of anything)...