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41rock candy — noun 1. hard bright colored stick candy (typically flavored with peppermint) • Syn: ↑rock • Hypernyms: ↑candy, ↑confect 2. sugar in large hard clear crystals on a string • Hypernyms: ↑candy, ↑ …
42con|fet|ti — «kuhn FEHT ee; Italian kn FEHT tee for 2 », noun (plural). 1. bits of colored paper thrown about at carnivals, weddings, or parades. 2. bonbons, or plaster or paper imitations of these, thrown during carnivals in Italy. ╂[< Italian confetti,… …
43Comfit — Com fit, n. [F. confit, prop. a p. p., fr. confire to preserve, pickle, fr. L. conficere to prepare; con + facere to make. See {Fact}, and cf. {Confect}.] A dry sweetmeat; any kind of fruit, root, or seed preserved with sugar and dried; a… …
44Crepidula fornicata — Sweetmeat Sweet meat , n. 1. Fruit preserved with sugar, as peaches, pears, melons, nuts, orange peel, etc.; usually in the plural; a confect; a confection. [1913 Webster] 2. The paint used in making patent leather. [1913 Webster] 3. (Zo[ o]l.) A …
45Sweetmeat — Sweet meat , n. 1. Fruit preserved with sugar, as peaches, pears, melons, nuts, orange peel, etc.; usually in the plural; a confect; a confection. [1913 Webster] 2. The paint used in making patent leather. [1913 Webster] 3. (Zo[ o]l.) A boat… …
46List of Latin words with English derivatives — This is a list of Latin words with derivatives in English (and other modern languages). Ancient orthography did not distinguish between i and j or between u and v. Many modern works distinguish u from v but not i from j. In this article both… …
47Donatist — The Donatists (named for the Berber Christian Donatus Magnus) were followers of a belief considered a schism by the broader churches of the Catholic tradition, and most particularly within the context of the religious milieu of the provinces of… …
48Augustus Hill Garland — Infobox US Cabinet official name=Augustus Hill Garland order1=39th title1=United States Attorney General term start1=March 6, 1885 term end1=March 4, 1889 predecessor1=Benjamin H. Brewster successor1=William H. H. Miller jr/sr2=United States… …
49Initial-stress-derived noun — Initial stress derivation is a phonological process in English, wherein stress is moved to the first syllable of any of several dozen verbs when they become nouns or adjectives. This is called a suprafix in linguistics. It is gradually becoming… …
50Metanalysis — This article is about the term in linguistics; in the natural sciences metanalysis is an alternative spelling for meta analysis . In linguistics, metanalysis is the act of breaking down a word or phrase into segments or meanings not original to… …
