| abelmosk | (noun) bushy herb of tropical Asia grown for its yellow or pink to scarlet blooms that resemble the hibiscus | Synonyms: Abelmoschus moschatus, Hibiscus moschatus, musk mallow |
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| ask | (verb) make a request or demand for something to somebody | - |
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| (verb) direct or put; seek an answer to | - |
| (verb) address a question to and expect an answer from | Synonyms: enquire, inquire |
| (verb) consider obligatory; request and expect | Synonyms: expect, require |
| (verb) require or ask for as a price or condition | - |
| (verb) make a date | Synonyms: ask out, invite out, take out |
| (verb) require as useful, just, or proper | Synonyms: call for, demand, involve, necessitate, need, postulate, require, take |
| askance | (adjective) (used especially of glances) directed to one side with or as if with doubt or suspicion or envy | Synonyms: askant, asquint, sidelong, squint-eyed, squint, squinty |
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| (adverb) with a side or oblique glance | - |
| (adverb) with suspicion or disapproval | - |
| askant | (adjective) (used especially of glances) directed to one side with or as if with doubt or suspicion or envy | Synonyms: askance, asquint, sidelong, squint-eyed, squint, squinty |
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| asker | (noun) someone who asks a question | Synonyms: enquirer, inquirer, querier, questioner |
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| askew | (adjective) turned or twisted toward one side | Synonyms: awry, cockeyed, lopsided, skew-whiff, wonky |
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| (adverb) turned or twisted to one side | Synonyms: awry, skew-whiff |
| asking | (noun) the verbal act of requesting | Synonyms: request |
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| asterisk | (noun) a star-shaped character * used in printing | Synonyms: star |
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| (verb) mark with an asterisk | Synonyms: star |
| asterisked | (adjective) marked with an asterisk | Synonyms: starred |
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| basilisk | (noun) small crested arboreal lizard able to run on its hind legs; of tropical America | - |
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| (noun) ancient brass cannon | - |
| (noun) (classical mythology) a serpent (or lizard or dragon) able to kill with its breath or glance | - |
| bask | (verb) be exposed | - |
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| (verb) derive or receive pleasure from; get enjoyment from; take pleasure in | Synonyms: enjoy, relish, savor, savour |
| basket | (noun) a score in basketball made by throwing the ball through the hoop | Synonyms: field goal |
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| (noun) a container that is usually woven and has handles | Synonyms: handbasket |
| (noun) horizontal circular metal hoop supporting a net through which players try to throw the basketball | Synonyms: basketball hoop, hoop |
| (noun) the quantity contained in a basket | Synonyms: basketful |
| basketball | (noun) a game played on a court by two opposing teams of 5 players; points are scored by throwing the ball through an elevated horizontal hoop | Synonyms: basketball game, hoops |
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| (noun) an inflated ball used in playing basketball | - |
| basketeer | (noun) an athlete who plays basketball | Synonyms: basketball player, cager |
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| basketful | (noun) the quantity contained in a basket | Synonyms: basket |
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| basketmaker | (noun) someone skilled in weaving baskets | Synonyms: basketweaver |
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| basketry | (noun) the craft of basket making | - |
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| basketweaver | (noun) someone skilled in weaving baskets | Synonyms: basketmaker |
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| bassarisk | (noun) raccoon-like omnivorous mammal of Mexico and the southwestern United States having a long bushy tail with black and white rings | Synonyms: Bassariscus astutus, cacomistle, cacomixle, civet cat, coon cat, miner's cat, raccoon fox, ring-tailed cat, ringtail |
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| bearskin | (noun) tall hat; worn by some British soldiers on ceremonial occasions | Synonyms: busby, shako |
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| (noun) the pelt of a bear | - |
| bewhisker | (verb) furnish with whiskers | Synonyms: whisker |
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| bewhiskered | (adjective) having hair on the cheeks and chin | Synonyms: barbate, bearded, whiskered, whiskery |
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| blatherskite | (noun) foolish gibberish | Synonyms: blather |
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| bosk | (noun) a small wooded area | - |
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| boskopoid | (adjective) belonging or relating to or resembling Boskop man | - |
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| bosky | (adjective) covered with or consisting of bushes or thickets | Synonyms: brushy |
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| breadbasket | (noun) a basket for serving bread | - |
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| (noun) an enlarged and muscular saclike organ of the alimentary canal; the principal organ of digestion | Synonyms: stomach, tum, tummy |
| (noun) a geographic region serving as the principal source of grain | - |
| brisk | (adjective) very active | - |
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| (adjective) quick and energetic | Synonyms: alert, lively, merry, rattling, snappy, spanking, zippy |
| (adjective) imparting vitality and energy | Synonyms: bracing, fresh, refreshful, refreshing, tonic |
| (verb) become brisk | Synonyms: brisk up, brisken |
| brisken | (verb) become brisk | Synonyms: brisk, brisk up |
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| brisket | (noun) a cut of meat from the breast or lower chest especially of beef | - |
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| briskly | (adverb) in a brisk manner | - |
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| briskness | (noun) liveliness and eagerness | Synonyms: alacrity, smartness |
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| brusk | (adjective) marked by rude or peremptory shortness | Synonyms: brusque, curt, short |
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| buckskin | (noun) horse of a light yellowish dun color with dark mane and tail | - |
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| (noun) a soft yellowish suede leather originally from deerskin but now usually from sheepskin | - |
| buckskins | (noun) (used in the plural) breeches made of buckskin | - |
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| busk | (verb) play music in a public place and solicit money for it | - |
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| busker | (noun) a person who entertains people for money in public places (as by singing or dancing), usually while asking for money | - |
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| buskin | (noun) a boot reaching halfway up to the knee | Synonyms: combat boot, desert boot, half boot, top boot |
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| buttinsky | (noun) a meddler who tends to butt in | - |
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| calfskin | (noun) fine leather from the skin of a calf | Synonyms: calf |
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| cask | (noun) a cylindrical container that holds liquids | Synonyms: barrel |
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| (noun) the quantity a cask will hold | Synonyms: caskful |
| casket | (noun) small and often ornate box for holding jewels or other valuables | Synonyms: jewel casket |
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| (noun) box in which a corpse is buried or cremated | Synonyms: coffin |
| (verb) enclose in a casket | - |
| caskful | (noun) the quantity a cask will hold | Synonyms: cask |
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| cheapskate | (noun) a miserly person | Synonyms: tightwad |
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| coonskin | (noun) a raccoon cap with the tail hanging down the back | Synonyms: coonskin cap |
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| cornhusk | (noun) the husk of an ear of corn | - |
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| cornhusker | (noun) a worker who husks corn | - |
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| cornhusking | (noun) the act of removing the husks from ears of corn | - |
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| (noun) a social gathering for the purpose of husking corn | Synonyms: husking bee |
| cowskin | (noun) leather made from the hide of a cow | Synonyms: cowhide |
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| cusk | (noun) large edible marine fish of northern coastal waters; related to cod | Synonyms: Brosme brosme, torsk |
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| (noun) elongate freshwater cod of northern Europe and Asia and North America having barbels around its mouth | Synonyms: burbot, eelpout, ling, Lota lota |
| (noun) the lean flesh of a cod-like fish of North Atlantic waters | - |
| cytoskeleton | (noun) a microscopic network of actin filaments and microtubules in the cytoplasm of many living cells that gives the cell shape and coherence | - |
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| damask | (adjective) having a woven pattern | - |
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| (noun) a fabric of linen or cotton or silk or wool with a reversible pattern woven into it | - |
| (noun) a table linen made from linen with a damask pattern | - |
| deerskin | (noun) leather from the hide of a deer | - |
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| desk | (noun) a piece of furniture with a writing surface and usually drawers or other compartments | - |
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| deskbound | (adjective) restricted to working in an office rather than in an active physical capacity | Synonyms: desk-bound |
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| deskman | (noun) the police sergeant on duty in a police station | Synonyms: desk sergeant, station keeper |
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| desktop | (noun) (computer science) the area of the screen in graphical user interfaces against which icons and windows appear | Synonyms: background, screen background |
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| (noun) the top of a desk | - |
| detusk | (verb) remove the tusks of animals | Synonyms: tusk |
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| disk | (noun) a flat circular plate | Synonyms: disc |
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| (noun) sound recording consisting of a disk with a continuous groove; used to reproduce music by rotating while a phonograph needle tracks in the groove | Synonyms: disc, phonograph record, phonograph recording, platter, record |
| (noun) (computer science) a memory device consisting of a flat disk covered with a magnetic coating on which information is stored | Synonyms: disc, magnetic disc, magnetic disk |
| (noun) something with a round shape resembling a flat circular plate | Synonyms: disc, saucer |
| (verb) draw a harrow over (land) | Synonyms: harrow |
| diskette | (noun) a small plastic magnetic disk enclosed in a stiff envelope with a radial slit; used to store data or programs for a microcomputer | Synonyms: floppy, floppy disk |
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| disklike | (adjective) having a flat circular shape | Synonyms: disc-shaped, disclike, discoid, discoidal, disk-shaped |
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| doeskin | (noun) a fine smooth soft woolen fabric | - |
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| (noun) soft leather from deerskin or lambskin | - |
| drosky | (noun) an open horse-drawn carriage with four wheels; formerly used in Poland and Russia | Synonyms: droshky |
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| dusk | (noun) the time of day immediately following sunset | Synonyms: crepuscle, crepuscule, evenfall, fall, gloam, gloaming, nightfall, twilight |
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| (verb) become dusk | - |
| duskiness | (noun) a swarthy complexion | Synonyms: darkness, swarthiness |
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| (noun) the state of being poorly illuminated | Synonyms: dimness |
| dusky | (adjective) naturally having skin of a dark color | Synonyms: dark-skinned, swart, swarthy |
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| (adjective) lighted by or as if by twilight | Synonyms: twilight, twilit |
| dyskinesia | (noun) abnormality in performing voluntary muscle movements | - |
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| eggwhisk | (noun) a mixer for beating eggs or whipping cream | Synonyms: eggbeater |
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| endoskeleton | (noun) the internal skeleton; bony and cartilaginous structure (especially of vertebrates) | - |
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| ensky | (verb) exalt to the skies; lift to the skies or to heaven with praise | - |
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| esker | (noun) (geology) a long winding ridge of post glacial gravel and other sediment; deposited by meltwater from glaciers or ice sheets | - |
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| exoskeleton | (noun) the exterior protective or supporting structure or shell of many animals (especially invertebrates) including bony or horny parts such as nails or scales or hoofs | - |
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| flask | (noun) bottle that has a narrow neck | - |
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| (noun) the quantity a flask will hold | Synonyms: flaskful |
| flaskful | (noun) the quantity a flask will hold | Synonyms: flask |
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| foreskin | (noun) a fold of skin covering the tip of the penis | Synonyms: prepuce |
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| (noun) a fold of skin covering the tip of the clitoris | Synonyms: prepuce |
| frisk | (noun) the act of searching someone for concealed weapons or illegal drugs | Synonyms: frisking |
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| (verb) search as for concealed weapons by running the hands rapidly over the clothing and through the pockets | - |
| (verb) play boisterously | Synonyms: cavort, disport, frolic, gambol, lark, lark about, rollick, romp, run around, skylark, sport |
| friskily | (adverb) in a playfully frisky manner | - |
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| friskiness | (noun) lively high-spirited playfulness | Synonyms: frolicsomeness, sportiveness |
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| frisking | (noun) the act of searching someone for concealed weapons or illegal drugs | Synonyms: frisk |
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| frisky | (adjective) playful like a lively kitten | Synonyms: kittenish |
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| gasket | (noun) seal consisting of a ring for packing pistons or sealing a pipe joint | - |
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| gaskin | (noun) lower part of a horse's thigh between the hock and the stifle | - |
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| gasmask | (noun) a protective mask with a filter; protects the face and lungs against poisonous gases | Synonyms: gas helmet, respirator |
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| goatskin | (noun) the hide of a goat | - |
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| greenskeeper | (noun) someone responsible for the maintenance of a golf course | - |
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| groundskeeper | (noun) someone who maintains the grounds (of an estate or park or athletic field) | Synonyms: groundkeeper, groundsman |
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| handbasket | (noun) a container that is usually woven and has handles | Synonyms: basket |
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| helpdesk | (noun) a service that provides information and assistance to the users of a computer network | Synonyms: help desk |
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| hipflask | (noun) a flask that holds spirits | Synonyms: pocket flask |
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| hoopskirt | (noun) a skirt stiffened with hoops | Synonyms: crinoline |
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| husk | (noun) outer membranous covering of some fruits or seeds | - |
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| (noun) material consisting of seed coverings and small pieces of stem or leaves that have been separated from the seeds | Synonyms: chaff, shuck, stalk, straw, stubble |
| (verb) remove the husks from | Synonyms: shell |
| huskily | (adverb) in a hoarse or husky voice | Synonyms: hoarsely |
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| huskiness | (noun) the property of being big and strong | Synonyms: ruggedness, toughness |
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| (noun) a throaty harshness | Synonyms: gruffness, hoarseness |
| husking | (noun) the removal of covering | Synonyms: baring, denudation, stripping, uncovering |
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| husky | (adjective) deep and harsh sounding as if from shouting or illness or emotion | Synonyms: gruff, hoarse |
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| (adjective) muscular and heavily built | Synonyms: beefy, buirdly, burly, strapping |
| (noun) breed of heavy-coated Arctic sled dog | Synonyms: Eskimo dog |
| kidskin | (noun) soft smooth leather from the hide of a young goat | Synonyms: kid |
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| kiosk | (noun) small area set off by walls for special use | Synonyms: booth, cubicle, stall |
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| lambskin | (noun) the skin of a lamb with the wool still on | - |
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| (noun) skin of a sheep or goat prepared for writing on | Synonyms: parchment, sheepskin |
| lentisk | (noun) an evergreen shrub of the Mediterranean region that is cultivated for its resin | Synonyms: mastic, mastic tree, Pistacia lentiscus |
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| lutefisk | (noun) dried cod soaked in a lye solution before boiling to give it a gelatinous consistency | Synonyms: lutfisk |
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