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  • qahqolunskuhk, diminutive qahqolunsqossis) clay Francis, David A. with Leavitt, Robert R. and Apt, Margaret (2008) “qahqolunsq”, in The Passamaquoddy-Maliseet...
    244 bytes (35 words) - 11:11, 26 July 2021
  • unclean”) [and other forms], either: from Middle English clei, cley (“clay; clayey soil; clay-containing material used as mortar or plaster”) [and other forms]...
    7 KB (908 words) - 16:38, 5 October 2024
  • Reminiscent or representative of an older time. Synonym: old-timely 1951, Margaret Cussler, Not by a Long Shot: Adventures of a Documentary Film Producer...
    1 KB (164 words) - 15:18, 5 June 2024
  • resembling, or characteristic of a sunrise. 1942, Sir Henry John Newbolt, Lady Margaret Edina Duckworth Newbolt, The Later Life and Letters of Sir Henry Newbolt:...
    1 KB (143 words) - 05:27, 23 April 2023
  • Jewish scrolls) tagin (plural tagins) Alternative spelling of tajine 2005, Margaret Littman, “Restaurants [South Side]”, in Veg Out: Vegetarian Guide to Chicago...
    2 KB (204 words) - 18:19, 7 November 2023
  • from Old English derived from Old English clǣġ (“clay”) as an occupational name for a worker in clay. A male given name transferred from the surname,...
    5 KB (585 words) - 17:38, 7 December 2024
  • kinde heate made more, the humors made temperate, & wit made cleere: 1969, Margaret Atwood, The Edible Woman‎[2], Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, published...
    9 KB (786 words) - 03:40, 28 September 2024
  • father's godson seek your life? He whom my father nam'd? your Edgar? 2000, Margaret Atwood, The Blind Assassin, Random House, →ISBN, page 62: My father was...
    4 KB (547 words) - 19:09, 8 December 2024
  • cookies? Stars, circles, or diamonds? 2012, Robert Bradgate, Fidelma White, Margaret Llewelyn, Commercial Law‎[1], page 429: No design right can exist in features...
    18 KB (1,168 words) - 22:06, 20 November 2024
  • with the open hand; to clap together, as the hands. 1845, Sylvester Judd, Margaret: Little Isabel leaped up and down, spatting her hands. to strike with spattering...
    10 KB (845 words) - 05:23, 3 October 2024
  • them his own is a work of grace only from above. 1881, William Minto, Margaret Bryant, “John Dryden”, in Encyclopædia Britannica, Ninth Edition‎[1]: Dryden’s...
    16 KB (1,435 words) - 04:35, 9 December 2024
  • the causal-links in one of the constituent plans. 2004, John R. Levine, Margaret Levine Young, Unix for Dummies, page 314: The cp command does one thing...
    10 KB (956 words) - 01:53, 19 October 2024
  • quickly discovered, and De Lacey and Agatha were thrown into prison. 1993, Margaret McKee, Fred Chisenhall, Beale black & blue: life and music on black America’s...
    36 KB (3,625 words) - 00:53, 11 December 2024
  • spatial adverbs. [from 15th c.] 1891, Thomas Nelson Page, On Newfound River: Margaret passed quite through the pines, and reached the opening beyond which was...
    16 KB (1,723 words) - 20:14, 11 December 2024
  • Conservative; especially, one who supported the policies of British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher in the 1980s. Antonym: wet dry (third-person singular simple present...
    35 KB (2,839 words) - 06:32, 11 December 2024
  • cruel tongues would force us apart, if nothing else did. 1936 June 30, Margaret Mitchell, chapter 30, in Gone with the Wind, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan...
    36 KB (2,853 words) - 21:58, 8 December 2024
  • “The First Booke for the Youth [Teachyng the Brynging vp of Youth]”, in Margaret Ascham, editor, The Scholemaster: Or Plaine and Perfite Way of Teaching...
    9 KB (1,231 words) - 15:39, 21 November 2024
  • agree in this, that far is most proper for wet clay land, and triticum for dry land. ‘In wet red clays,’ says Cato, ‘sow far; and in dry, clean, and open...
    9 KB (1,119 words) - 10:29, 27 September 2024
  • especially, one who opposed the hard-line policies of British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher in the 1980s. Antonym: dry (colloquial) An alcoholic drink. 1974...
    39 KB (3,450 words) - 15:49, 6 December 2024
  • to a thin, pointed object. (historical) A sharp stick used for writing on clay tablets or other surfaces; a stylus; (by extension, obsolete) an instrument...
    37 KB (3,773 words) - 00:08, 31 October 2024
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