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adj. 1. causing insidious harm or ruin; ruinous; injurious; hurtful: pernicious teachings; a pernicious lie. 2. deadly; fatal: a pernicious disease. 3. Obs. evil; wicked.
n., v., -led, -ling. –n. 1. one of the long, slender feathers on the neck or saddle of certain birds, as the domestic rooster, much used in making artificial flies for anglers. 2. the neck plumage of a male bird, as the domestic rooster. 3. hackles, a. the erectile hair on the back of an animal's neck: At the sound of footsteps, the dog raised her hackles.
to arouse one's anger: Such officiousness always raises my hackles.
n. 1. a general breakup or dispersion; sudden downfall or rout: The revolution ended in a debacle. 2. a complete collapse or failure. 3. a breaking up of ice in a river. Cf. embacle. 4. a violent rush of waters or ice
–v.t., v.i. 8. to turn or upset so as to bring the wrong side or part uppermost.
n. 1. good condition; order: The engine was out of kilter. 2. Poker. skeet2.
v.t. 1. to force upon or impose fraudulently or unjustifiably (usually fol. by on or upon): to foist inferior merchandise on a customer. 2. to bring, put, or introduce surreptitiously or fraudulently (usually fol. by in or into): to foist political views into a news story.
adj. persistent in effort; stubbornly tenacious: a dogged worker.
v., -hooved, -hoov·ing. (chiefly in impersonal use) –v.t. 1. to be necessary or proper for, as for moral or ethical considerations; be incumbent on: It behooves the court to weigh evidence impartially. 2. to be worthwhile to, as for personal profit or advantage: It would behoove you to be nicer to those who could help you. –v.i. 3. Archaic. to be needful, proper, or due:
adj., -ti·er, -ti·est. 1. having a stale smell; moldy; musty: fusty rooms that were in need of a good airing. 2. old-fashioned or out-of-date, as architecture, furnishings, or the like: They still live in that fusty, gingerbread house. 3. stubbornly conservative or old-fashioned; fogyish.
v.t., -bat·ed, -bat·ing. 1. to increase the severity, bitterness, or violence of (disease, ill feeling, etc.); aggravate. 2. to embitter the feelings of (a person); irritate; exasperate. [1650–60; < L exacerb!tus (ptp. of exacerb!re to exasperate, provoke), equiv. to ex- EX-1 + acerb!tus ACERBATE]
n., pl. -nies. 1. harsh discordance of sound; dissonance: a cacophony of hoots, cackles, and wails. 2. a discordant and meaningless mixture of sounds: the cacophony produced by city traffic at midday. 3. Music. frequent use of discords of a harshness and relationship difficult to understand.
adj., spruc·er, spruc·est, v., spruced, spruc·ing. –adj. 1. trim in dress or appearance; neat; smart; dapper. –v.t. 2. to make spruce or smart (often fol. by up): Spruce up the children before the company comes. –v.i. 3. to make oneself spruce (usually fol. by up) Example, to spruce-up the taste of an otherwise
Informal. –v.i. 1. to snack or eat between meals. –v.t. 2. to snack on: They noshed peanuts and cookies while watching television. –n. 3. a snack.
v.t., v.i. 1. to expand by stretching, as something hollow or elastic: Habitual overeating had distended his stomach. 2. to spread in all directions; expand; swell: The sea distended about them.
adj., -tri·er, -tri·est. 1. ridiculously or insultingly small: a paltry sum. 2. utterly worthless. 3. mean or contemptible: a paltry coward.
adj. 1. situated or lying under the skin, as tissue. 2. performed or introduced under the skin, as an injection by a syringe. 3. living below the several layers of the skin, as certain parasites.
v., -lat·ed, -lat·ing. –v.i. 1. to emit sparks. 2. to sparkle; flash: a mind that scintillates with brilliance. 3. to twinkle, as the stars. 4. Electronics. (of a spot of light or image on a radar display) to shift rapidly around a mean position. 5. Physics. a. (of the amplitude, phase, or polarization of an electromagnetic wave) to fluctuate in a
adj. 1. dulled or satiated by overindulgence: a jaded appetite. 2. worn out or wearied, as by overwork or overuse. 3. dissipated: a jaded reprobate.
v.t., -dled, -dling. 1. to confuse, as with glib statements or arguments: politicians befuddling the public with campaign promises. 2. to make stupidly drunk.
n. 1. (sometimes used with a singular v.) equipment, apparatus, or furnishing used in or necessary for a particular activity: a skier's paraphernalia. 2. (used with a plural v.) personal belongings. 3. (used with a singular v.) Law. the personal articles, apart from dower, reserved by law to a married woman.
v.t. 1. to beat soundly; thrash. 2. Informal. to strike with a vigorous blow; belt; sock: After two strikes, he walloped the ball out of the park. 3. Informal. to defeat thoroughly, as in a game. 4. Chiefly Scot. to flutter, wobble, or flop about.
., pl. -chol·ies, adj. –n. 1. a gloomy state of mind, esp. when habitual or prolonged; depression. 2. sober thoughtfulness; pensiveness. 3. Archaic. a. the condition of having too much black bile, considered in ancient and medieval medicine to cause gloominess and depression. b. black bile. –adj. 4. affected with, characterized by, or
n., adj. in "Æbr" it, i n"Æ-), v., -ated, -ating, n., adj. -v.t. 1. to make drunk; intoxicate. 2. to exhilarate, confuse, or stupefy mentally or emotionally. -n. 3. an intoxicated person. 4. a habitual drunkard. -adj. 5. Also, ineÆbriatÅed. drunk; intoxicated.
adj. 1. adverse in tendency or effect; unfavorable; harmful: a climate inimical to health. 2. unfriendly; hostile: a cold, inimical gaze.
v.t., v.i., -rated, -rating. to make or become better, more bearable, or more satisfactory; improve; meliorate.
v.t., -spoke or (Archaic) -spake; -spo·ken or -spoke; -speak·ing. 1. to ask for in advance: to bespeak the reader's patience. 2. to reserve beforehand; engage in advance; make arrangements for: to bespeak a seat in a theater. 3. Literary. to speak to; address. 4. to show; indicate: This bespeaks a kindly heart. 5. Obs. to foretell; forebode.
adj., -er, -est. 1. without refinement, delicacy, or sensitivity; gross; obtuse; stupid: crass commercialism; a crass misrepresentation of the facts. 2. Archaic. thick; coarse.
n. 1. a mean, sneaking coward. –adj. 2. of or befitting a dastard; mean, sneaky, and cowardly.
n. 1. smallness of quantity; scarcity; scantiness: a country with a paucity of resources. 2. smallness or insufficiency of number; fewness.
n., pl. Usually, minutiae. precise details; small or trifling matters: the minutiae of his craft.
adj. 1. of, pertaining to, characteristic of, or befitting a man; masculine; manly: virile strength. 2. having or exhibiting masculine energy, forcefulness, or strength in a marked degree. 3. characterized by a vigorous, masculine spirit: a virile literary style. 4. of, pertaining to, or capable of procreation.
v.t. 1. to instigate or foster (discord, rebellion, etc.); promote the growth or development of: to foment trouble; to foment discontent. 2. to apply warm water or medicated liquid, ointments, etc., to (the surface of the body).
adj. 1. dependent on circumstances beyond one's control; uncertain; unstable; insecure: a precarious livelihood. 2. dependent on the will or pleasure of another; liable to be withdrawn or lost at the will of another: He held a precarious tenure under an arbitrary administration. 3. exposed to or involving danger; dangerous; perilous; risky: the precarious life of an underseas diver. 4. having insufficient, little, or no foundation:
n., pl. -lar·ies. 1. Math. a proposition that is incidentally proved in proving another proposition. 2. an immediate consequence or easily drawn conclusion.
n. 1. an act of indicting. 2. Law. a formal accusation initiating a criminal case, presented by a grand jury and usually required for felonies and other serious crimes. 3. any charge, accusation, serious criticism, or cause for blame. 4. the state of being indicted.
n. 1. a pouring out of wine or other liquid in honor of a deity. 2. the liquid poured out. 3. Often Facetious. a. an intoxicating beverage, as wine, esp. when drunk in ceremonial or celebrative situations. b. an act or instance of drinking such a beverage.
n. 1. a small cap, usually of metal, worn over the fingertip to protect it when pushing a needle through cloth in sewing. 2. Mech. any of various similar devices or attachments. 3. Naut. a metal ring with a concave groove on the outside, used to line the outside of a ring of rope forming an eye. 4. a sleeve of sheet metal passing through the wall of a chimney, for holding the end of a stovepipe or the like.
n. 1. a short journey, esp. one taken for pleasure.
adj. ters·er, ters·est. 1. neatly or effectively concise; brief and pithy, as language. 2. abruptly concise; curt; brusque.
