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  • 1meagre — adj. (US meager) 1 lacking in amount or quality (a meagre salary). 2 (of literary composition, ideas, etc.) lacking fullness, unsatisfying. 3 (of a person or animal) lean, thin. Derivatives: meagrely adv. meagreness n. Etymology: ME f. AF megre,… …

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  • 2meagre — (US meager) adjective 1》 lacking in quantity or quality. 2》 (of a person or animal) lean; thin. Derivatives meagrely adverb meagreness noun Origin ME: from OFr. maigre, from L. macer …

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  • 4M. Barnard Eldershaw — was the pseudonym used by the twentieth century Australian literary collaborators Marjorie Barnard (1897 1987) and Flora Eldershaw (1897 1956). In a collaboration that lasted two decades from the late 1920s to the last 1940s, they published 5… …

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  • 5anatomy — n. 1. Dissection. 2. Structure, structural form, structural plan, structural details. 3. Structural science. 4. Skeleton, bony structure. 5. Meagre person, heap of skin and bones …

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  • 6Russia — /rush euh/, n. 1. Also called Russian Empire. Russian, Rossiya. a former empire in E Europe and N and W Asia: overthrown by the Russian Revolution 1917. Cap.: St. Petersburg (1703 1917). 2. See Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. 3. See Russian… …

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  • 7japan — japanner, n. /jeuh pan /, n., adj., v., japanned, japanning. n. 1. any of various hard, durable, black varnishes, originally from Japan, for coating wood, metal, or other surfaces. 2. work varnished and figured in the Japanese manner. 3. Japans,… …

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  • 8Japan — /jeuh pan /, n. 1. a constitutional monarchy on a chain of islands off the E coast of Asia: main islands, Hokkaido, Honshu, Kyushu, and Shikoku. 125,716,637; 141,529 sq. mi. (366,560 sq. km). Cap.: Tokyo. Japanese, Nihon, Nippon. 2. Sea of, the… …

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  • 9literature — /lit euhr euh cheuhr, choor , li treuh /, n. 1. writings in which expression and form, in connection with ideas of permanent and universal interest, are characteristic or essential features, as poetry, novels, history, biography, and essays. 2.… …

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  • 10India — /in dee euh/, n. 1. Hindi, Bharat. a republic in S Asia: a union comprising 25 states and 7 union territories; formerly a British colony; gained independence Aug. 15, 1947; became a republic within the Commonwealth of Nations Jan. 26, 1950.… …

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