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lucre
(encz) | lucre,peníze n: [hovor.] Zdeněk Brož |
Lucre
(gcide) | Lucre \Lu"cre\, n. [F. lucre, L. lucrum.]
Gain in money or goods; profit; riches; -- often in an ill
sense.
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The lust of lucre and the dread of death. --Pope.
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lucre
(wn) | lucre
n 1: informal terms for money [syn: boodle, bread,
cabbage, clams, dinero, dough, gelt, kale,
lettuce, lolly, lucre, loot, moolah, pelf,
scratch, shekels, simoleons, sugar, wampum]
2: the excess of revenues over outlays in a given period of time
(including depreciation and other non-cash expenses) [syn:
net income, net, net profit, lucre, profit,
profits, earnings] |
LUCRE
(bouvier) | LUCRE. Gain, profit. Cl. des Lois Rom. h.t.
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filthy lucre
(encz) | filthy lucre,špinavý zisk Zdeněk Brož |
involucre
(encz) | involucre, n: |
lucre
(encz) | lucre,peníze n: [hovor.] Zdeněk Brož |
lucretia
(encz) | Lucretia,Lukrécia [jmén.] Martin LigačLucretia,ženské křestní jméno n: [female] [jmén.] Zdeněk Brož a
automatický překlad |
lucretius
(encz) | Lucretius,Lukrécius [jmén.] Martin Ligač |
lucrezia borgia
(encz) | Lucrezia Borgia, |
Involucre
(gcide) | Involucre \In"vo*lu`cre\ (?; 277), n. [L. involucrum a covering,
wrapper, fr. involvere to wrap up, envelop: cf. F. involucre.
See Involve.] (Bot.)
(a) A whorl or set of bracts around a flower, umbel, or head.
(b) A continuous marginal covering of sporangia, in certain
ferns, as in the common brake, or the cup-shaped
processes of the filmy ferns.
(c) The peridium or volva of certain fungi. Called also
involucrum.
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Involucred
(gcide) | Involucred \In"vo*lu`cred\, a. (Bot.)
Having an involucre, as umbels, heads, etc. --Martyn.
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Involucret
(gcide) | Involucret \In`vo*lu"cret\, n. (Bot.)
An involucel.
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Lucre
(gcide) | Lucre \Lu"cre\, n. [F. lucre, L. lucrum.]
Gain in money or goods; profit; riches; -- often in an ill
sense.
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The lust of lucre and the dread of death. --Pope.
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Proper involucre
(gcide) | Proper \Prop"er\, a. [OE. propre, F. propre, fr. L. proprius.
Cf. Appropriate.]
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1. Belonging to one; one's own; individual. "His proper good"
[i. e., his own possessions]. --Chaucer. "My proper son."
--Shak.
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Now learn the difference, at your proper cost,
Betwixt true valor and an empty boast. --Dryden.
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2. Belonging to the natural or essential constitution;
peculiar; not common; particular; as, every animal has his
proper instincts and appetites.
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Those high and peculiar attributes . . . which
constitute our proper humanity. --Coleridge.
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3. Befitting one's nature, qualities, etc.; suitable in all
respect; appropriate; right; fit; decent; as, water is the
proper element for fish; a proper dress.
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The proper study of mankind is man. --Pope.
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In Athens all was pleasure, mirth, and play,
All proper to the spring, and sprightly May.
--Dryden.
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4. Becoming in appearance; well formed; handsome. [Archaic]
"Thou art a proper man." --Chaucer.
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Moses . . . was hid three months of his parents,
because they saw he was a proper child. --Heb. xi.
23.
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5. Pertaining to one of a species, but not common to the
whole; not appellative; -- opposed to common; as, a
proper name; Dublin is the proper name of a city.
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6. Rightly so called; strictly considered; as, Greece proper;
the garden proper.
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7. (Her.) Represented in its natural color; -- said of any
object used as a charge.
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In proper, individually; privately. [Obs.] --Jer. Taylor.
Proper flower or Proper corolla (Bot.), one of the single
florets, or corollets, in an aggregate or compound flower.
Proper fraction (Arith.) a fraction in which the numerator
is less than the denominator.
Proper nectary (Bot.), a nectary separate from the petals
and other parts of the flower. -- Proper noun (Gram.), a
name belonging to an individual, by which it is
distinguished from others of the same class; -- opposed to
common noun; as, John, Boston, America.
Proper perianth or Proper involucre (Bot.), that which
incloses only a single flower.
Proper receptacle (Bot.), a receptacle which supports only
a single flower or fructification.
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filthy lucre
(wn) | filthy lucre
n 1: shameful profit; "he would sell his soul for filthy lucre" |
involucre
(wn) | involucre
n 1: a highly conspicuous bract or bract pair or ring of bracts
at the base of an inflorescence |
lucre
(wn) | lucre
n 1: informal terms for money [syn: boodle, bread,
cabbage, clams, dinero, dough, gelt, kale,
lettuce, lolly, lucre, loot, moolah, pelf,
scratch, shekels, simoleons, sugar, wampum]
2: the excess of revenues over outlays in a given period of time
(including depreciation and other non-cash expenses) [syn:
net income, net, net profit, lucre, profit,
profits, earnings] |
lucretia coffin mott
(wn) | Lucretia Coffin Mott
n 1: United States feminist and suffragist (1793-1880) [syn:
Mott, Lucretia Coffin Mott] |
lucretius
(wn) | Lucretius
n 1: Roman philosopher and poet; in a long didactic poem he
tried to provide a scientific explanation of the universe
(96-55 BC) [syn: Lucretius, Titus Lucretius Carus] |
lucrezia borgia
(wn) | Lucrezia Borgia
n 1: Italian noblewoman and patron of the arts (1480-1519) [syn:
Borgia, Lucrezia Borgia, Duchess of Ferrara] |
titus lucretius carus
(wn) | Titus Lucretius Carus
n 1: Roman philosopher and poet; in a long didactic poem he
tried to provide a scientific explanation of the universe
(96-55 BC) [syn: Lucretius, Titus Lucretius Carus] |
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