brindle | (adjective) having a grey or brown streak or a pattern or a patchy coloring; used especially of the patterned fur of cats | Synonyms: brinded, brindled, tabby |
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bundle | (noun) a package of several things tied together for carrying or storing | Synonyms: sheaf |
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(noun) a collection of things wrapped or boxed together | Synonyms: package, packet, parcel |
(noun) a large sum of money (especially as pay or profit) | Synonyms: big bucks, big money, megabucks, pile |
(verb) sleep fully clothed in the same bed with one's betrothed | Synonyms: practice bundling |
(verb) make into a bundle | Synonyms: bundle up, roll up |
(verb) compress into a wad | Synonyms: compact, pack, wad |
(verb) gather or cause to gather into a cluster | Synonyms: bunch, clump, cluster |
candle | (noun) stick of wax with a wick in the middle | Synonyms: taper, wax light |
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(noun) the basic unit of luminous intensity adopted under the Systeme International d'Unites; equal to 1/60 of the luminous intensity per square centimeter of a black body radiating at the temperature of 2,046 degrees Kelvin | Synonyms: candela, cd, standard candle |
(verb) examine eggs for freshness by holding them against a light | - |
dandle | (verb) pet | - |
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(verb) move (a baby) up and down in one's arms or on one's knees | - |
doorhandle | (noun) a knob used to release the catch when opening a door (often called `doorhandle' in Great Britain) | Synonyms: doorknob |
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dwindle | (verb) become smaller or lose substance | Synonyms: dwindle away, dwindle down |
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enkindle | (verb) call forth (emotions, feelings, and responses) | Synonyms: arouse, elicit, evoke, fire, kindle, provoke, raise |
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(verb) cause to start burning | Synonyms: conflagrate, inflame, kindle |
fondle | (verb) touch or stroke lightly in a loving or endearing manner | Synonyms: caress |
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footcandle | (noun) a unit of illuminance on a surface that is everywhere 1 foot from a point source of 1 candle | - |
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grindle | (noun) primitive long-bodied carnivorous freshwater fish with a very long dorsal fin; found in sluggish waters of North America | Synonyms: Amia calva, bowfin, dogfish |
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handle | (noun) the appendage to an object that is designed to be held in order to use or move it | Synonyms: grip, handgrip, hold |
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(verb) act on verbally or in some form of artistic expression | Synonyms: address, cover, deal, plow, treat |
(verb) touch, lift, or hold with the hands | Synonyms: palm |
(verb) handle effectively | Synonyms: manage, wield |
(verb) show and train | - |
(verb) be in charge of, act on, or dispose of | Synonyms: care, deal, manage |
(verb) interact in a certain way | Synonyms: do by, treat |
kindle | (verb) call forth (emotions, feelings, and responses) | Synonyms: arouse, elicit, enkindle, evoke, fire, provoke, raise |
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(verb) cause to start burning | Synonyms: conflagrate, enkindle, inflame |
(verb) catch fire | Synonyms: inflame |
manhandle | (verb) handle roughly | - |
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mishandle | (verb) make a mess of, destroy or ruin | Synonyms: ball up, blow, bobble, bodge, bollix, bollix up, bollocks, bollocks up, botch, botch up, bumble, bungle, flub, fluff, foul up, fuck up, fumble, louse up, mess up, muck up, muff, screw up, spoil |
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(verb) manage badly or incompetently | Synonyms: misconduct, mismanage |
panhandle | (noun) the handle of a pan | - |
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(noun) a relatively narrow strip of land projecting from some larger area | - |
(verb) beg by accosting people in the street and asking for money | - |
rekindle | (verb) arouse again | - |
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(verb) kindle anew, as of a fire | - |
rundle | (noun) one of the crosspieces that form the steps of a ladder | Synonyms: rung, spoke |
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spindle | (noun) a stick or pin used to twist the yarn in spinning | - |
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(noun) any of various rotating shafts that serve as axes for larger rotating parts | Synonyms: arbor, mandrel, mandril |
(noun) a piece of wood that has been turned on a lathe; used as a baluster, chair leg, etc. | - |
(noun) any holding device consisting of a rigid, sharp-pointed object | Synonyms: spike |
(noun) (biology) tiny fibers that are seen in cell division; the fibers radiate from two poles and meet at the equator in the middle | - |
swindle | (noun) the act of swindling by some fraudulent scheme | Synonyms: cheat, fraud, rig |
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(verb) deprive of by deceit | Synonyms: bunco, con, defraud, diddle, goldbrick, hornswoggle, mulct, nobble, rook, scam, short-change, victimize |
trundle | (noun) small wheel or roller | - |
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(noun) a low bed to be slid under a higher bed | Synonyms: truckle, truckle bed, trundle bed |
(verb) move heavily | - |