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  • 101down — Synonyms and related words: COD, Vandyke, actively, adown, ailing, air, alkali flat, all up with, alluvial plain, anthill, backset, bad, barrow, basin, beard, beat, beaten, beaver, bedfast, bedridden, below, below par, best, bested, blow down,… …

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  • 102pine — 1 noun 1 (C, U) a tall tree with long hard sharp leaves that do not fall off in winter: a pine forest 2 the soft pale coloured wood of this tree, used to make furniture, floors etc: a pine table 2 also pine away verb (I) to gradually become… …

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  • 103pine — I UK [paɪn] / US noun Word forms pine : singular pine plural pines * 1) pine or pine tree [countable] a tall tree with thin sharp leaves called needles that do not fall off in winter, and hard brown fruits called cones 2) [uncountable] the wood… …

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  • 104pine — I. /paɪn / (say puyn) noun 1. any member of the genus Pinus of the Northern Hemisphere, comprising evergreen coniferous trees varying greatly in size, with long needle shaped leaves, including many species of economic importance for their timber… …

  • 105pine´like´ — pine1 «pyn», noun. 1. a) a tree bearing woody cones and clusters of evergreen leaves shaped like needles that grow out from temporary scalelike leaves. The various kinds of pine make up a genus of the pine family. Many kinds are valuable for… …

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  • 106marasmus — ma*ras mus, n. [NL., fr. Gr. ?, fr. ?, to quench, as fire; pass., to die away.] (Med.) A wasting of flesh without fever or apparent disease; a kind of consumption; atrophy; phthisis. [1913 Webster] Pining atrophy, Marasmus, and wide wasting… …

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  • 107Marasmus senilis — marasmus ma*ras mus, n. [NL., fr. Gr. ?, fr. ?, to quench, as fire; pass., to die away.] (Med.) A wasting of flesh without fever or apparent disease; a kind of consumption; atrophy; phthisis. [1913 Webster] Pining atrophy, Marasmus, and wide… …

    The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • 108Carlo Goldoni — Infobox Writer name = Carlo Goldoni bgcolour = silver imagesize = 200px caption = Carlo Goldoni pseudonym = birth date = 25 February 1707 birth place = Venice death date = 6 February 1793 death place = France occupation = dramatist, librettist… …

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  • 109Weaving — Weaver (occupation) redirects here. This article is about textile weaving. For other uses, see Weaving (disambiguation). Warp and weft in plain weaving Weaving is a method of fabric production in which two distinct sets of yarns or threads are… …

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  • 110Kingdom of Asturias — Infobox Former Country native name = Asturorum Regnum conventional long name = Kingdom of Asturias common name = Asturias continent = Europe region = Iberian country = Spain era = government type = Monarchy| event start = year start = 718 date… …

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