| lineman | (noun) (American football) the position of a player on a football team who is stationed on the line of scrimmage | - |
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| (noun) one of the players on the line of scrimmage | - |
| (noun) a person who installs or repairs electrical or telephone lines | Synonyms: electrician, linesman |
| (noun) the surveyor who marks positions with a range pole | - |
| linesman | (noun) a person who installs or repairs electrical or telephone lines | Synonyms: electrician, lineman |
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| (noun) official (in tennis, soccer, football, etc.) who assists the referee in some way (especially by watching for out of bounds or offside) | - |
| linkman | (noun) (formerly) an attendant hired to carry a torch for pedestrians in dark streets | Synonyms: linkboy |
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| linksman | (noun) someone who plays the game of golf | Synonyms: golf player, golfer |
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| lithomancer | (noun) one who practices lithomancy | - |
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| lithomancy | (noun) divination by means of stones or stone talismans | - |
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| lithomantic | (adjective) of or relating to lithomancy | - |
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| liveryman | (noun) a worker in a livery stable | - |
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| lobsterman | (noun) a person whose occupation is catching lobsters | - |
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| lockman | (noun) a worker in charge of a lock (on a canal) | Synonyms: lockkeeper, lockmaster |
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| logomania | (noun) pathologically excessive (and often incoherent) talking | Synonyms: logorrhea |
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| longbowman | (noun) a medieval English archer who used a longbow | - |
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| longshoreman | (noun) a laborer who loads and unloads vessels in a port | Synonyms: dock-walloper, dock worker, docker, dockhand, dockworker, loader, lumper, stevedore |
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| lowerclassman | (noun) an undergraduate who is not yet a senior | Synonyms: underclassman |
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| lumberman | (noun) a person who fells trees | Synonyms: faller, feller, logger, lumberjack |
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| lymantriid | (noun) dull-colored moth whose larvae have tufts of hair on the body and feed on the leaves of many deciduous trees | Synonyms: tussock moth |
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| madman | (noun) a male insane person | - |
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| madwoman | (noun) a woman lunatic | - |
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| mailman | (noun) a man who delivers the mail | Synonyms: carrier, letter carrier, mail carrier, postman |
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| maltman | (noun) a maker of malt | Synonyms: maltster |
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| man | (noun) all of the living human inhabitants of the earth | Synonyms: human beings, human race, humanity, humankind, humans, mankind, world |
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| (noun) any living or extinct member of the family Hominidae characterized by superior intelligence, articulate speech, and erect carriage | Synonyms: homo, human, human being |
| (noun) game equipment consisting of an object used in playing certain board games | Synonyms: piece |
| (noun) an adult person who is male (as opposed to a woman) | Synonyms: adult male |
| (noun) someone who serves in the armed forces; a member of a military force | Synonyms: military man, military personnel, serviceman |
| (noun) the generic use of the word to refer to any human being | - |
| (noun) a manservant who acts as a personal attendant to his employer | Synonyms: gentleman's gentleman, gentleman, valet, valet de chambre |
| (noun) an adult male person who has a manly character (virile and courageous competent) | - |
| (noun) a male person who plays a significant role (husband or lover or boyfriend) in the life of a particular woman | - |
| (noun) a male subordinate | - |
| (verb) provide with workers | - |
| (verb) take charge of a certain job; occupy a certain work place | - |
| manacle | (noun) shackle that consists of a metal loop that can be locked around the wrist; usually used in pairs | Synonyms: cuff, handcuff, handlock |
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| (verb) confine or restrain with or as if with manacles or handcuffs | Synonyms: cuff, handcuff |
| manage | (verb) handle effectively | Synonyms: handle, wield |
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| (verb) be in charge of, act on, or dispose of | Synonyms: care, deal, handle |
| (verb) watch and direct | Synonyms: oversee, superintend, supervise |
| (verb) carry on or function | Synonyms: do |
| (verb) succeed in doing, achieving, or producing (something) with the limited or inadequate means available | Synonyms: contend, cope, deal, get by, grapple, make do, make out |
| (verb) achieve something by means of trickery or devious methods | Synonyms: finagle, wangle |
| (verb) be successful; achieve a goal | Synonyms: bring off, carry off, negociate, pull off |
| manageability | (noun) the capability of being managed or controlled | Synonyms: manageableness |
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| manageable | (adjective) capable of being managed or controlled | - |
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| (adjective) capable of existing or taking place or proving true; possible to do | Synonyms: accomplishable, achievable, doable, realizable |
| manageableness | (noun) the capability of being managed or controlled | Synonyms: manageability |
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| manageably | (adverb) so as to be manageable | - |
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| management | (noun) the act of managing something | Synonyms: direction |
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| (noun) those in charge of running a business | - |
| manager | (noun) someone who controls resources and expenditures | Synonyms: director, managing director |
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| (noun) (sports) someone in charge of training an athlete or a team | Synonyms: coach, handler |
| manageress | (noun) a woman manager | - |
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| managerial | (adjective) of or relating to the function or responsibility or activity of management | - |
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| managerially | (adverb) in a managerial manner | - |
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| managership | (noun) the position of manager | - |
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| manakin | (noun) any of numerous small bright-colored birds of Central America and South America having short bills and elaborate courtship behavior | - |
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| (noun) a life-size dummy used to display clothes | Synonyms: form, manikin, mannequin, mannikin |
| (noun) a woman who wears clothes to display fashions | Synonyms: fashion model, manikin, mannequin, mannikin, model |
| manana | (noun) an unspecified time in the future | - |
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| manat | (noun) the basic unit of money in Azerbaijan | - |
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| (noun) the basic unit of money in Turkmenistan | - |
| manatee | (noun) sirenian mammal of tropical coastal waters of America; the flat tail is rounded | Synonyms: Trichechus manatus |
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| mandala | (noun) any of various geometric designs (usually circular) symbolizing the universe; used chiefly in Hinduism and Buddhism as an aid to meditation | - |
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| mandamus | (noun) an extraordinary writ commanding an official to perform a ministerial act that the law recognizes as an absolute duty and not a matter for the official's discretion; used only when all other judicial remedies fail | Synonyms: writ of mandamus |
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| mandarin | (noun) a somewhat flat reddish-orange loose skinned citrus of China | Synonyms: mandarin orange |
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| (noun) a high public official of imperial China | - |
| (noun) any high government official or bureaucrat | - |
| (noun) a member of an elite intellectual or cultural group | - |
| (noun) shrub or small tree having flattened globose fruit with very sweet aromatic pulp and thin yellow-orange to flame-orange rind that is loose and easily removed; native to southeastern Asia | Synonyms: Citrus reticulata, mandarin orange, mandarin orange tree |
| mandatary | (noun) the recipient of a mandate | Synonyms: mandatory |
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| mandate | (noun) the commission that is given to a government and its policies through an electoral victory | - |
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| (noun) a document giving an official instruction or command | Synonyms: authorisation, authorization |
| (noun) a territory surrendered by Turkey or Germany after World War I and put under the tutelage of some other European power until they are able to stand by themselves | Synonyms: mandatory |
| (verb) assign authority to | - |
| (verb) make mandatory | - |
| (verb) assign under a mandate | - |
| mandator | (noun) an authority who issues a mandate | - |
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| mandatorily | (adverb) in a manner that cannot be evaded | Synonyms: compulsorily, obligatorily |
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| mandatory | (adjective) required by rule | Synonyms: compulsory, required |
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| (noun) a territory surrendered by Turkey or Germany after World War I and put under the tutelage of some other European power until they are able to stand by themselves | Synonyms: mandate |
| (noun) the recipient of a mandate | Synonyms: mandatary |
| mandible | (noun) the jaw in vertebrates that is hinged to open the mouth | Synonyms: jawbone, jowl, lower jaw, lower jawbone, mandibula, mandibular bone, submaxilla |
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| mandibula | (noun) the jaw in vertebrates that is hinged to open the mouth | Synonyms: jawbone, jowl, lower jaw, lower jawbone, mandible, mandibular bone, submaxilla |
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| mandibular | (adjective) relating to the lower jaw | Synonyms: inframaxillary |
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| mandibulate | (adjective) having mandibles | - |
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| mandibulofacial | (adjective) of or relating to the lower jaw and face | - |
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| mandioc | (noun) cassava with long tuberous edible roots and soft brittle stems; used especially to make cassiri (an intoxicating drink) and tapioca | Synonyms: bitter cassava, gari, mandioca, Manihot esculenta, Manihot utilissima, manioc, tapioca plant |
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| mandioca | (noun) cassava with long tuberous edible roots and soft brittle stems; used especially to make cassiri (an intoxicating drink) and tapioca | Synonyms: bitter cassava, gari, mandioc, Manihot esculenta, Manihot utilissima, manioc, tapioca plant |
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| mandola | (noun) an early type of mandolin | - |
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| mandolin | (noun) a stringed instrument related to the lute, usually played with a plectrum | - |
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| mandrake | (noun) a plant of southern Europe and North Africa having purple flowers, yellow fruits and a forked root formerly thought to have magical powers | Synonyms: devil's apples, Mandragora officinarum |
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| (noun) the root of the mandrake plant; used medicinally or as a narcotic | Synonyms: mandrake root |
| mandrel | (noun) any of various rotating shafts that serve as axes for larger rotating parts | Synonyms: arbor, mandril, spindle |
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| mandril | (noun) any of various rotating shafts that serve as axes for larger rotating parts | Synonyms: arbor, mandrel, spindle |
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| mandrill | (noun) baboon of west Africa with a bright red and blue muzzle and blue hindquarters | Synonyms: Mandrillus sphinx |
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| manducate | (verb) chew (food); to bite and grind with the teeth | Synonyms: chew, jaw, masticate |
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| manduction | (noun) biting and grinding food in your mouth so it becomes soft enough to swallow | Synonyms: chew, chewing, mastication |
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| (noun) the act of participating in the celebration of the Eucharist | Synonyms: Communion, Holy Communion, sacramental manduction |
| mane | (noun) long coarse hair growing from the crest of the animal's neck | - |
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| (noun) growth of hair covering the scalp of a human being | Synonyms: head of hair |
| maneuver | (noun) a move made to gain a tactical end | Synonyms: manoeuvre, tactical maneuver, tactical manoeuvre |
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| (noun) an action aimed at evading an opponent | Synonyms: evasive action, manoeuvre |
| (noun) a military training exercise | Synonyms: manoeuvre, simulated military operation |
| (noun) a deliberate coordinated movement requiring dexterity and skill | Synonyms: manoeuvre, play |
| (noun) a plan for attaining a particular goal | Synonyms: manoeuvre, tactic, tactics |
| (verb) perform a movement in military or naval tactics in order to secure an advantage in attack or defense | Synonyms: manoeuver, manoeuvre, operate |
| (verb) direct the course; determine the direction of travelling | Synonyms: channelise, channelize, direct, guide, head, manoeuver, manoeuvre, point, steer |
| (verb) act in order to achieve a certain goal | Synonyms: manoeuver, manoeuvre |
| maneuverability | (noun) the quality of being maneuverable | Synonyms: manoeuvrability |
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| maneuverable | (adjective) capable of maneuvering or changing position | Synonyms: manoeuvrable |
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| maneuverer | (noun) a person skilled in maneuvering | Synonyms: manoeuvrer |
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| manful | (adjective) possessing qualities befitting a man | Synonyms: manlike, manly |
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| (adjective) characteristic of a man | Synonyms: male, manlike, manly, virile |
| manfully | (adverb) in a manful manner; with qualities thought to befit a man | Synonyms: manly |
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| manfulness | (noun) the trait of being manly; having the characteristics of an adult male | Synonyms: manliness, virility |
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| manga | (noun) graphic novel that originated in Japan, usually intended for adults and characterized by highly stylized art | - |
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| mangabey | (noun) large agile arboreal monkey with long limbs and tail and white upper eyelids | - |
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| manganate | (noun) a salt of manganic acid containing manganese as its anion | - |
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| manganese | (noun) a hard brittle grey polyvalent metallic element that resembles iron but is not magnetic; used in making steel; occurs in many minerals | Synonyms: atomic number 25, Mn |
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| manganite | (noun) a black mineral consisting of basic manganese oxide; a source of manganese | - |
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| mange | (noun) a persistent and contagious disease of the skin causing inflammation and itching and loss of hair; affects domestic animals (and sometimes people) | - |
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| manger | (noun) a container (usually in a barn or stable) from which cattle or horses feed | Synonyms: trough |
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| mangey | (adjective) having many worn or threadbare spots in the nap | Synonyms: mangy |
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| mangily | (adverb) in a mangy manner | - |
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| manginess | (noun) a lack of elegance as a consequence of wearing threadbare or dirty clothing | Synonyms: seediness, shabbiness, sleaziness |
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| mangle | (noun) clothes dryer for drying and ironing laundry by passing it between two heavy heated rollers | - |
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| (verb) damage or injure severely | Synonyms: cut up, mutilate |
| (verb) alter so as to make unrecognizable | Synonyms: murder, mutilate |
| (verb) press with a mangle | - |
| (verb) injure badly by beating | Synonyms: maul |
| mangled | (adjective) having edges that are jagged from injury | Synonyms: lacerate, lacerated, torn |
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| mangler | (noun) a person who mutilates or destroys or disfigures or cripples | Synonyms: maimer, mutilator |
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| manglietia | (noun) a genus of flowering tree of the family Magnoliaceae found from Malay to southern China | Synonyms: genus Manglietia |
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| mango | (noun) large oval tropical fruit having smooth skin, juicy aromatic pulp, and a large hairy seed | - |
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| (noun) large evergreen tropical tree cultivated for its large oval fruit | Synonyms: Mangifera indica, mango tree |
| mangold | (noun) beet with a large yellowish root; grown chiefly as cattle feed | Synonyms: Beta vulgaris vulgaris, mangel-wurzel, mangold-wurzel |
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| mangonel | (noun) catapult operated by manpower pulling cords attached to a lever and slign to launch projectiles | Synonyms: bricole, traction trebuchet |
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| mangosteen | (noun) two- to three-inch tropical fruit with juicy flesh suggestive of both peaches and pineapples | - |
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| (noun) East Indian tree with thick leathery leaves and edible fruit | Synonyms: Garcinia mangostana, mangosteen tree |
| mangrove | (noun) a tropical tree or shrub bearing fruit that germinates while still on the tree and having numerous prop roots that eventually form an impenetrable mass and are important in land building | Synonyms: Rhizophora mangle |
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| mangy | (adjective) having many worn or threadbare spots in the nap | Synonyms: mangey |
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| manhandle | (verb) handle roughly | - |
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| manhattan | (noun) a cocktail made with whiskey and sweet vermouth with a dash of bitters | - |
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| manhole | (noun) a hole (usually with a flush cover) through which a person can gain access to an underground structure | - |
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| manhood | (noun) the status of being a man | - |
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| (noun) the quality of being human | Synonyms: humanity, humanness |
| (noun) the state of being a man; manly qualities | - |
| manhunt | (noun) an organized search (by police) for a person (charged with a crime) | - |
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| mania | (noun) an irrational but irresistible motive for a belief or action | Synonyms: cacoethes, passion |
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| (noun) a mood disorder; an affective disorder in which the victim tends to respond excessively and sometimes violently | Synonyms: manic disorder |
| maniac | (adjective) wildly disordered | Synonyms: maniacal |
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| (noun) an insane person | Synonyms: lunatic |
| (noun) a person who has an obsession with or excessive enthusiasm for something | - |
| maniacal | (adjective) wildly disordered | Synonyms: maniac |
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| maniacally | (adverb) in a maniacal manner or to a maniacal degree | - |
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| manic | (adjective) affected with or marked by frenzy or mania uncontrolled by reason | Synonyms: frenzied |
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| maniclike | (adjective) resembling the mania of manic-depressive illness | - |
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| manicotti | (noun) large pasta tubes stuffed with chopped meat or mild cheese and baked in tomato sauce | - |
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