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All Words Glossary
noun
- (South African English) Sour milk.
proper noun
- The capital of the province of Limburg in the Netherlands.
proper noun
- a city in Indonesia also named Ujung Pandang
proper noun Macau/Aomen
- A city just West of Hong Kong.
proper noun ( wikipedia, Macedonia (region))
- An ancient kingdom north of Thessaly, usually termed Macedon in English.
- The largest and second most populous region of Greece, comprising the regions of West Macedonia, Central Macedonia and East Macedonia and Thrace.
- Country in Europe. Official name: Република
Македонија.
- The part of the region in south-western Bulgaria.
- The whole region including parts of SW Bulgaria, north Greece and Republic of Macedonia.
noun macon
- Macon is a dry white or red wine produced in France.
proper noun
- Country in Southern Africa. Official name: Republic of Madagascar.
proper noun
- Island in the Atlantic Ocean and an autonomous region of Portugal.
proper noun
- State in central India which has Bhopal as its capital.
proper noun
- The capital city of Wisconsin, USA.
- An English surname.
- (given name, female) popular since 1984 when it appeared as the name of a mermaid in the film Splash.
proper noun
- Former name of Chennai, the state capital of Tamil Nadu, India.
- (British) a style of curry dish purported to originate from the Madras region.
- "I"ll have the Chicken Madras."
proper noun
- The capital city of Spain.
proper noun
- The capital city of Saxony-Anhalt, Germany
adjective
- (music) Greater, in respect to scales, intervals, etc., when used in opposition to minor; major.
( webster)
proper noun
- Northwest Africa, the region of Africa north of the Sahara and west of the Nile. The lands of the Maghreb are generally considered to be the coastal plains of Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, and western Libya. Construed with "the": the Maghreb.
proper noun
- A region that is home to the city of Volos, located in the southwestern tip of Thessaly in north central Greece.
noun
- A tree or shrub in any species of the genus Magnolia, many with large flowers and simple leaf, leaves.
- The flower of a magnolia tree.
- (colour) A creamy white colour, like that of some magnolia flowers.
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adjective
- (colour) of a creamy white colour, like that of some magnolia flowers.
proper noun
- State in western India which has Mumbai (formerly known as Bombay) as its capital.
proper noun
- The county town of Kent
proper noun
- A river in southern Germany, flowing from Bavaria to the Rhine.
proper noun ( wikipedia, Maine, Maine (US state))
- The northeasternmost state of the United States of America. Capital: Augusta
- A town in Marathon County, Wisconsin.
- A town in Outagamie County, Wisconsin.
proper noun ( Mainers)
- A native or inhabitant of Maine in the United States.
noun
- The main landmass of a country or continent
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1719: w:Daniel Defoe, Daniel Defoe, w:Robinson Crusoe, Robinson Crusoe
- : ...I got to the , where, to my great comfort, I clambered up the cliffs of the shore and sat me down upon the grass, free from danger and quite out of the reach of the water.
proper noun
- The capital of Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.
proper noun
- Largest of the Balearic Islands.
proper noun
- The capital of Equatorial Guinea.
proper noun
- State in western Malaysia.
- Capital of Malacca state.
proper noun
- A port and city in Andalusia, Spain
proper noun
- Country in Southern Africa. Official name: Republic of Malawi.
proper noun
- A country in Southeast Asia. Official name: w:Malaysia, Malaysia.
proper noun ( plural)
- Country in South Asia. Official name: Republic of Maldives.
noun
- Someone of masculine gender.
adjective
- Belonging or referring to the sex which is generally characterized as having the smaller gametes (for species which have two sexes and for which this distinction can be made).
- (figurative) having an external plug, as in a connector or pipe fitting.
proper noun
- Country in Western Africa. Official name: Republic of Mali.
proper noun
- A country in Europe. Official name: Republic of Malta.
- The largest island of the Maltese Archipelago.
proper noun
- The genus Homo.
proper noun
- The capital and largest city of Nicaragua
proper noun
- The capital of Bahrain.
proper noun
- State capital of Amazonas (Brazil).
proper noun
- Major city in the north-west of England.
- Name of several towns and cities in the United States of America.
adjective mancunian
- A person raised or living in the city of Manchester, England.
- Related or pertaining to Manchester, England.
proper noun
- An indigenous people of North America who lived in present day New York State.
- A borough of New York City, mainly on Manhattan Island.
proper noun
- The capital of the Philippines, located on the island of Luzon.
proper noun
- State in north-eastern India which has Imphal as its capital.
proper noun
- A province in central Canada which has Winnipeg as its capital.
proper noun
- A town in Nottinghamshire, England
proper noun
- Province of Lombardy, Italy.
- City and capital of Mantua.
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"He and I / Will watch thy waking, and that very night / Shall Romeo bear thee hence to Mantua. — w:Romeo and Juliet, Romeo and Juliet, William Shakespeare
proper noun ( es, -)
- The third month of the Gregorian calendar, following February and preceding April. Abbreviation: Mar or Mar.
proper noun
- A region of central Italy.
noun
- the area along a border
- (plural of, march)
verb
- (third-person singular of, march)
proper noun
- A coastal town in Kent, England.
noun
- a harbour for small boats.
- It's a peaceful with not too many boats and yachts.
proper noun
- (given name, female), a French diminutive of Marie used in English since the Middle Ages.
- A surname derived from the female given name.
- (context, mostly, US) (given name, male), transferred use of the surname, or by folk etymology seen as a masculine form of Mary.
proper noun
- A part of the Alps between France and Italy.
proper noun
- a town in Wiltshire, England
- w:Marlborough College, Marlborough College
- a dukedom in the British peerage
proper noun
- City in France, capital of the department Bouches-du-Rhí´ne.
proper noun
- An English and Scottish status surname for someone who was in charge of the horses of a royal household, or an occupational surname for someone who looked after horses, or was responsible for the custody of prisoners
- (given name, male), transferred use of the surname since nineteenth century.
proper noun
- Country in Oceania. Official name: Republic of the Marshall Islands.
proper noun Martha"s Vineyard
- An island off the southern coast of Cape Cod famous for once being home to one of the earliest known deaf communities.
proper noun
- An island in the Caribbean, an overseas department of France. Official name: Department of Martinique.
proper noun
- A (USstate) Capital: Annapolis.
abbreviation
- Massachusetts
proper noun
- A (USstate) Capital: Boston.
proper noun
- State in central-western Brazil which has Cuiabí¡ as its capital.
proper noun
- Country in Northern Africa. Official name: Islamic Republic of Mauritania.
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proper noun
- Country in the Indian Ocean. Official name: Republic of Mauritius.
proper noun
- The fifth month of the Gregorian calendar, following April and preceding June.
- The hawthorn or its blossoms (as it blooms in May)
- (given name, female), pet name for Mary and Margaret, reinforced by the month and plant meaning
- A surname.
proper noun
- One of the départements of Pays de la Loire, France (number 53)
proper noun
- A county in the Republic of Ireland.
proper noun
- An overseas territorial collectivity of France, placed between Africa's mainland and Madagascar. Official name: Territorial Collectivity of Mayotte.
abbreviation
- Maine, a state of the United States of America.
- Middle English
initialism ( wikipedia, coroner)
- Medical examiner, or coroner.
noun
- An alcoholic drink fermented from honey and water
noun
- A winding, crooked, or involved course; as, the meanders of an old river.
- A tortuous or intricate movement.
- fretwork, Fretwork.
verb
- To wind, turn, or twist; to make flexuous; to wander
- The stream meandered through the valley.
noun or mecca
- (figuratively) Any place considered to be a very important place to visit by people with a particular interest.
proper noun
- A city in Saudi Arabia, the holiest place in Islam, location of the sacred Ka'ba, and to which Muslims are required to make a hajj at least once in their lifetime.
Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania
- One of the component states of Germany according to the current administrative division of the nation.
proper noun ( wikipedia, Medicine Hat, Alberta)
- a town in Alberta, Canada.
proper noun
- A city, 200 miles north of Mecca along the Hejaz, from which the Hejira was launched; contains Muhammad's tomb.
proper noun the Mediterranean
- The Mediterranean Sea.
- The region surrounding the Mediterranean Sea.
adjective
- Of or pertaining to the Mediterranean Sea and the region around it.
proper noun the Mediterranean Sea
- The sea between Europe and Africa.
proper noun
- A variant spelling of Mexico. The RAE offers Mexico as the preferred spelling, though many opt for the spelling with a "j".
proper noun
- (rivers) A river of southeast Asia that flows about 4,183 km (2,600 miles) from Tibet to the South China Sea in Vietnam.
proper noun
- Part of Oceania, made up of New Guinea, the Bismarck Archipelago, the Solomon Islands, New Caledonia, Vanuatu and Fiji.
proper noun
- State capital of Victoria (Australia).
proper noun
- A Scottish habitational surname of Norman origin, from Malleville in Normandy
- w:Herman Melville, Herman Melville (1819-1891), an American novelist, essayist, and poet. He is best remembered for the novel s:Moby-Dick, Moby-Dick.
- His works or media adaptations of his works.
proper noun ® ( plural )
- Short form of Mercedes-Benz.
- A female given name of Spanish derivation (from "María de las Mercedes", Mary of Mercies (the Virgin Mary))
noun
- An imaginary great circle on the Earth's surface, passing through the geographic poles.
- Either half of such a great circle, all points of which have the same longitude.
- (astronomy) A great circle passing through the poles of the celestial sphere and the zenith for a particular observer.
- (mathematics) A similar line on any general surface of revolution.
- Any of the longitudinal pathways on the body along which the acupuncture points are distributed.
- The highest point or state of consciousness and enlightenment achievable by a human.
adjective
- Meridional; relating to a meridian.
- Relating to noon
proper noun
- A maritime traditional county of Wales, bounded to the north by Caernarfonshire, to the east by Denbighshire, to the south by Montgomeryshire and Cardiganshire, and to the west by Cardigan Bay.
proper noun
- (rivers) A river in England that flows for about 113 km (70 mi) to the Irish Sea at Liverpool.
proper noun
- (from 1974) A metropolitan county in north west England carved out of Lancashire and Cheshire.
proper noun
- A town in Glamorgan, south Wales
proper noun
- Any of several placenames in England from words meaning lake and settlement
- w:Merton College, Oxford, Merton College, Oxford
- An English habitational surname from the placenames
noun
- Flat area of land or plateau higher than other land, with one or more clifflike edges
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" A few more miles of hot sand and gravel and red stone brought us around a low mesa to the Little Colorado."
- A city in Maricopa County, Arizona; the second largest city in the metropolitan area of Phoenix and the third largest city in Arizona.
proper noun ( wikipedia, Mesquite, Texas)
- a city (now a suburb of Dallas) in Texas
proper noun
- Province of Sicily, Italy.
- Town and capital of Messina.
proper noun
- The capital city of the région of Lorraine
proper noun
- (rivers) A river in Europe that flows about 901 km (560 mi) from France through Belgium to the North Sea at the Netherlands.
proper noun
- Country in North America. Official name: Estados Unidos Mexicanos (United Mexican States).
- (rare) An alternative name for Mexico City.
proper noun
- The capital of Mexico.
proper noun
- City in Florida, USA
- Town in the Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia
- An indigenous North American people of Algonquian stock; the Algonquian language of that tribe.
proper noun
- A (USstate) Capital: Lansing. Largest city: Detroit.
- w:Lake Michigan, Lake Michigan, one of the Great Lakes
noun
- One who lives in or comes from Michigan.
adjective
- Of or pertaining to Michigan.
noun
- A resident of the state of Michigan; a michigander.
proper noun
- Country in Oceania. Official name: Federated States of Micronesia.
proper noun
- The region comprising southwest Asia and northeast Africa.
proper noun
- a town in the North East of England on the River Tees.
proper noun
- A former inland county of England now part of London.
proper noun
- Any of many placenames in England, Scotland and elsewhere
- An earldom in the English peerage
- An English and Scottish habitational surname from any of the places
initialism
- Musical Instrument Digital Interface
- MIDI channel no.10 is reserved for percussions.
noun
- The region of a country not near the borders; the interior.
adjective
- Resembling or relating to the interior region of a country.
noun
- (plural of, midland)
proper noun
- an area of Scotland, currently a council area, formerly a county
adverb
- halfway; equidistant from either end point; in the middle between two points
proper noun
- Province of Lombardy, Italy.
- City and capital of the province of Milan.
- A male given name.
proper noun
- An English habitational surname
- (given name, male) derived from the surname
- The English poet :w:John Milton (1608-1674)
- Name of many towns in Canada and the US
- Milton Keynes - large new town in England, 90km north of London
proper noun
- State in south-eastern Brazil which has Belo Horizonte as its capital.
proper noun
- An island of the Philippines
- One of the three island groups in the Philippines
noun
- (context, foods) A loose skinned orange. A cross between a tangerine and an orange.
proper noun
- The largest city in the state of Minnesota
2.Also referred to as the Twin Cities in combination with Saint Paul.
proper noun
- A north-central state of the United States of America. West of Wisconsin, north of Iowa, east of South Dakota and North Dakota; south of the Canadian provinces of Manitoba and Ontario. The capital is Saint Paul.
proper noun
- An island of Spain.
- A breed of poultry.
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- "Yet another breed which has fallen from grace, more through unwise breeding than any fault of its own is the . See ref. p.43.
noun
- An inhabitant of Minorca.
adjective
- Of or relating to Minorca or its inhabitants.
proper noun
- The capital of Belarus.
noun
- A duty that involves fulfilling a request.
- Religious evangelism. See also: missionary
- (the missions) collective term for third world charities, particularly those which preach as well as provide aid.
proper noun
- A (USstate) Postal abbreviation: MS
- (rivers) A major river in North America that rises in Minnesota and flows into the Gulf of Mexico.
proper noun ( Mississippians)
- An inhabitant or a resident of the state of Mississippi.
- (geology) The Mississippian epoch.
adjective
- (geology) Of a geologic epoch within the Carboniferous period from about 359 to 318 million years ago; marked by glaciation and the appearance of the first trees.
- Of, or pertaining to, Mississippi or its culture
proper noun
- A (USstate) Postal abbreviation: MO
- (rivers) The longest river in the United States, flowing from Montana to become a tributary of the Mississippi at Saint Louis.
proper noun
- An English surname derived from the given name Michel (Michael), or from the word muchel meaning big.
- (given name, male), transferred use of the surname.
abbreviation
- Minnesota, a state of the United States of America.
- meganewton, Meganewton.
abbreviation
- Missouri, a state of the United States of America.
initialism
- modus operandi, Modus operandi.
- (finance) money order, Money order.
proper noun
- A city in southwest Alabama.
noun
- a strong Arabian coffee
- a coffee and chocolate mixed flavour
- (colour) a dark brown colour, like that of mocha coffee.
- <table><tr><td>mocha colour: </td><td bgcolor="
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adjective
- (colour) of a dark brown colour, like that of mocha coffee.
proper noun
- Province of Emilia-Romagna, Italy.
- City and capital of the province of Modena.
proper noun
- (uncountable) An Iroquoian language spoken by a North American indigenous people, the easternmost of the Iroquois w:Iroquois Confederacy, Five Nations.
- (countable) A hairstyle where both sides are shaved, with the hair along the crest of the head kept long and usually styled so as to stand straight up.
proper noun
- A former principality in Eastern Europe, now a region made up of the country of Moldova and northeastern Romania.
proper noun
- A country in Europe, situated between Romania to the east and Ukraine to the west, north and south. Official name: Republic of Moldova (Republica Moldova).
noun
- The crossed iron that supports the upper millstone by resting on the spindle; a millrind.
proper noun
- A country in Europe. Official name: Principality of Monaco.
- The capital of the principality of Monaco.
proper noun
- The former name of Bitola in Macedonia.
proper noun
- Country in Central Asia. Official name: Mongolia.
noun
- A native or inhabitant of Mongolia = Mongol.
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1757 - John Dyer: The fleece, a poem (1807)
- : The Cossac there, The Calmuc, and Mungalian, round the bales In crowds resort.
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1763 - John Bell: A journey from St. Petersburg to Pekin
- : This day we saw some scattered tents of Mongalians, with their flocks.
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1854 - Robert G. Latham in Orr's Circle of the sciences: Organic nature
- : The Mongolians are the most nomadic of populations.
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1990 - New Scientist, September 1
- : Mongolians now regard animal husbandry as a low-status occupation.
- A group of Altaic languages from Mongolia, specifically Khalkha, the official language of Mongolia.
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1926 - Neville J. Whymant: A Mongolian Grammar
- : The Khalka... possesses seven vowels and twenty consonants.
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1987 - David Crystal: The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Language
- : The Altaic family...comprises about 40 languages, classified into three groups: Turkic, , and Manchu-Tungus.
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1990 - Orientations, April
- : These inscriptions are in and thus widen the appliqué's international connections.
- A person of Mongoloid physical type; a Mongoloid.
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1823 - North American Revolution, July
- : A particular individual which the latter considered a and the former assures us is an Ethiopian.
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1938 - Franz Boas, et al.: General Anthropology
- : Extreme forms like the Australians, Negroes, Mongolians, and Europeans may be described as races because each has certain characteristics which set them off from other groups, and which are strictly hereditary.
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1988 - Current Anthropology, volume 29
- : The thesis of this work was that native Americans were one race distinct from Eskimos and Mongolians.
adjective
- Of or relating to Mongolia or its peoples, languages, or cultures = Mongol.
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1706 - Evert Y. Ides: Three years travels from Moscow over-land to China...
- : He had a Sister, which according to the Mongalian custom lived in the devoted spiritual state.
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1878 - Encyclopedia Britannica, ninth edition, volume XVI
- : The characters...are written perpendicularly from above downward.
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1985 - Robert Whelan: Robert Capa: A Biography
- : He usually had a heavy growth of dark stubble that made him look...rather like a bandit.
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Anthropology. Resembling or having some of the characteristic physical features of the Mongoloid racial type = Mongoloid.
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1828 - John Stark: Elements of natural history
- : The variety inhabits eastern Asia, Finland, and Lapland in Europe, and includes the Esquimaux of North America.
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1834 - Penny cyclopí¦dia of the Society for the diffusion of useful knowledge, volume II
- : The white (or Caucasian), the yellow (or ), and the black (or Ethiopian)
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1990 - Louis de Bernières: ''The War of Don Emmanuel's Nether Parts
- : It was not so much their features that impressed everyone...
- (context, now, _, rare, offensive) Designating or affected with Down syndrome = Mongol.
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Spelling: Also mongolian.
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1866 - John Langdon Haydon Down in Clinical lectures and reports by the medical and surgical staff of the London Hospital, volume II
- : The type of idiocy occurs in more than ten per cent. of the cases which are presented to me.
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1965 - H. Eldon Sutton: An introduction to human genetics
- : The condition known as trisomy 21 syndrome or mongolian idiocy (sometimes referred to as Down's syndrome) had long been an enigma.
proper noun
- A town in Monmouthshire, Wales
proper noun
- A maritime traditional county of Wales, bordered by to the east by Gloucestershire, to the northeast by Herefordshire, to the north by Brecknockshire, to the west by Glamorganshire and to the south by the Bristol Channel.
- A local government principal area, bordered by the Forest of Dean, Herefordshire, Powys, Blaenau Gwent, Torfaen and Newport.
proper noun
- A Scottish topographic surname from Gaelic words meaning "foot of a hill"
proper noun ( wikipedia, Montana (US state), Montana)
- A state of the United States of America. Capital: Helena.
- A town in northwestern Bulgaria.
proper noun
- A part of Monaco famous for its casinos.
- A commonly served drink consisting of beer and grenadine.
proper noun
- Town in Jamaica
proper noun
- Country in Europe, formerly one of the two constituent republics of Serbia and Montenegro. Capital and largest city: Podgorica, formerly Titograd.
proper noun
- Various towns and cities, see
proper noun
- The capital of Uruguay.
proper noun
- A male given name
- The capital city of Alabama; see Wikipedia:Montgomery, Alabama
proper noun
- An inland traditional county of Wales, bounded to the north by Denbighshire, to the east and southeast by Shropshire, to the south by Radnorshire, to the southwest by Cardiganshire and to the west and northwest by Merionethshire.
proper noun
- The capital city of the Languedoc-Roussillon region in France.
proper noun
- A seaport and the largest city in Quebec, a province of eastern Canada.
proper noun
- Overseas territory of the United Kingdom; placed in the Caribbean. Official name: Montserrat.
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- Esperanto: Montserato, Moncerato
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proper noun
- Many toponymic place names, or parts of place names, derived from moor.
- An English and Irish surname similarly derived.
proper noun
- A town in Saskatchewan, Canada.
noun
- any of the large cosmopolitan carnivorous eels of the family Muraenidae.
proper noun
- One of the départements of Brittany, France
proper noun
- Country in Northern Africa. Official name: Kingdom of Morocco.
proper noun
- The capital of the Comoros.
- A small city in central Utah.
- (Mormon) The last book in the Book of Mormon
- (Mormon) A Book of Mormon prophet, the author of the Book of Moroni.
- (Mormon) A military and spiritual leader of the Nephites in the Book of Mormon.
proper noun
- any of several places of that name (or Moreton) meaning "settlement near a moor or marsh"
- an English and Scottish habitational surname from the placename
proper noun
- The capital city of Russia.
proper noun
- One of the départements of Lorraine, France
proper noun
- A river in Russia, a tributary of the Oka.
proper noun
- Country in Southern Africa. Official name: Republic of Mozambique (Repíºblica de Moí§ambique).
abbreviation
- Mississippi, a state of the United States of America.
- manuscript, Manuscript.
- Master of Science.
- middle school, Middle School.
- Morphine. (Morphine Sulfate)
- multiple sclerosis, Multiple sclerosis, a chronic, inflammatory, demyelinating disease
initialism
- Microsoft
abbreviation
- Montana, a state of the United States of America.
- Mountain Time.
- Massage Therapist.
proper noun
- A city in Alsace, France
noun
- A thin, soft muslin.
- (uncountable) marijuana, Marijuana that has been prepared for smoking by way of chopping it.
verb
- To work (over) mentally; to cogitate; to ruminate; usually with over;
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to over a thought or a problem
- To chop marijuana so that it becomes a smokable form.
- To heat and spice something, such as wine.
- (rfv-sense)To join two (or more) individual window(s) at mullion(s)
proper noun
- The capital of Bavaria, Germany.
proper noun
- The southernmost province of Ireland
proper noun
- An autonomous community in south-eastern Spain
- The capital city of the region of Murcia
proper noun
- A river in southeastern Australia, flowing 2,589 km (1,609 mi) to the Indian Ocean.
- A city in Kentucky and also in Utah, USA.
- A Scottish surname.
- (given name, male), transferred use of the surname.
proper noun
- capital city of Oman.
proper noun
- a member of an American Indian people; the Creek.
- the language spoken by such people.
- a city in Oklahoma.
proper noun
- An island of the Cyclades, Greece.
noun
- Someone who practices mysticism.
category:Occult adjective
- Of, or relating to mystics, mysticism or occult mysteries; mystical.
- mysterious, Mysterious and strange; arcane, obscure or enigmatic.
proper noun
- Another name for Lesbos.
- The capital of Lesbos.
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