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abash
(encz) | abash,zahanbit v: |
abash
(encz) | abash,zakřiknout v: |
abash
(encz) | abash,zastrašit v: |
Abash
(gcide) | Abash \A*bash"\ ([.a]*b[a^]sh"), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Abashed
([.a]*b[a^]sht"); p. pr. & vb. n. Abashing.] [OE. abaissen,
abaisshen, abashen, OF. esbahir, F. ['e]bahir, to astonish,
fr. L. ex + the interjection bah, expressing astonishment. In
OE. somewhat confused with abase. Cf. Finish.]
To destroy the self-possession of; to confuse or confound, as
by exciting suddenly a consciousness of guilt, mistake, or
inferiority; to put to shame; to disconcert; to discomfit.
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Abashed, the devil stood,
And felt how awful goodness is. --Milton.
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He was a man whom no check could abash. --Macaulay.
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Syn: To confuse; confound; disconcert; shame.
Usage: To Abash, Confuse, Confound. Abash is a stronger
word than confuse, but not so strong as confound. We
are abashed when struck either with sudden shame or
with a humbling sense of inferiority; as, Peter was
abashed by the look of his Master. So a modest youth
is abashed in the presence of those who are greatly
his superiors. We are confused when, from some
unexpected or startling occurrence, we lose clearness
of thought and self-possession. Thus, a witness is
often confused by a severe cross-examination; a timid
person is apt to be confused in entering a room full
of strangers. We are confounded when our minds are
overwhelmed, as it were, by something wholly
unexpected, amazing, dreadful, etc., so that we have
nothing to say. Thus, a criminal is usually confounded
at the discovery of his guilt.
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Satan stood
Awhile as mute, confounded what to say.
--Milton.
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abash
(wn) | abash
v 1: cause to be embarrassed; cause to feel self-conscious [syn:
embarrass, abash] |
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abashed
(encz) | abashed,zastrašen adj: |
abashing
(encz) | abashing,zastrašování v: |
abashment
(encz) | abashment,rozpaky |
calabash
(encz) | calabash,tykev Zdeněk Brož |
sweet calabash
(encz) | sweet calabash, n: |
unabashed
(encz) | unabashed,nestoudný adj: Zdeněk Brož |
wabash
(encz) | Wabash,Wabash [jmén.] [zem.] okres v USA Martin Ligač |
wabash
(czen) | Wabash,Wabash[jmén.] [zem.] okres v USA Martin Ligač |
Abash
(gcide) | Abash \A*bash"\ ([.a]*b[a^]sh"), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Abashed
([.a]*b[a^]sht"); p. pr. & vb. n. Abashing.] [OE. abaissen,
abaisshen, abashen, OF. esbahir, F. ['e]bahir, to astonish,
fr. L. ex + the interjection bah, expressing astonishment. In
OE. somewhat confused with abase. Cf. Finish.]
To destroy the self-possession of; to confuse or confound, as
by exciting suddenly a consciousness of guilt, mistake, or
inferiority; to put to shame; to disconcert; to discomfit.
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Abashed, the devil stood,
And felt how awful goodness is. --Milton.
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He was a man whom no check could abash. --Macaulay.
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Syn: To confuse; confound; disconcert; shame.
Usage: To Abash, Confuse, Confound. Abash is a stronger
word than confuse, but not so strong as confound. We
are abashed when struck either with sudden shame or
with a humbling sense of inferiority; as, Peter was
abashed by the look of his Master. So a modest youth
is abashed in the presence of those who are greatly
his superiors. We are confused when, from some
unexpected or startling occurrence, we lose clearness
of thought and self-possession. Thus, a witness is
often confused by a severe cross-examination; a timid
person is apt to be confused in entering a room full
of strangers. We are confounded when our minds are
overwhelmed, as it were, by something wholly
unexpected, amazing, dreadful, etc., so that we have
nothing to say. Thus, a criminal is usually confounded
at the discovery of his guilt.
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Satan stood
Awhile as mute, confounded what to say.
--Milton.
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Abashed
(gcide) | Abash \A*bash"\ ([.a]*b[a^]sh"), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Abashed
([.a]*b[a^]sht"); p. pr. & vb. n. Abashing.] [OE. abaissen,
abaisshen, abashen, OF. esbahir, F. ['e]bahir, to astonish,
fr. L. ex + the interjection bah, expressing astonishment. In
OE. somewhat confused with abase. Cf. Finish.]
To destroy the self-possession of; to confuse or confound, as
by exciting suddenly a consciousness of guilt, mistake, or
inferiority; to put to shame; to disconcert; to discomfit.
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Abashed, the devil stood,
And felt how awful goodness is. --Milton.
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He was a man whom no check could abash. --Macaulay.
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Syn: To confuse; confound; disconcert; shame.
Usage: To Abash, Confuse, Confound. Abash is a stronger
word than confuse, but not so strong as confound. We
are abashed when struck either with sudden shame or
with a humbling sense of inferiority; as, Peter was
abashed by the look of his Master. So a modest youth
is abashed in the presence of those who are greatly
his superiors. We are confused when, from some
unexpected or startling occurrence, we lose clearness
of thought and self-possession. Thus, a witness is
often confused by a severe cross-examination; a timid
person is apt to be confused in entering a room full
of strangers. We are confounded when our minds are
overwhelmed, as it were, by something wholly
unexpected, amazing, dreadful, etc., so that we have
nothing to say. Thus, a criminal is usually confounded
at the discovery of his guilt.
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Satan stood
Awhile as mute, confounded what to say.
--Milton.
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Abashedly
(gcide) | Abashedly \A*bash"ed*ly\ (-[e^]d*l[y^]), adv.
In an abashed manner.
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Abashing
(gcide) | Abash \A*bash"\ ([.a]*b[a^]sh"), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Abashed
([.a]*b[a^]sht"); p. pr. & vb. n. Abashing.] [OE. abaissen,
abaisshen, abashen, OF. esbahir, F. ['e]bahir, to astonish,
fr. L. ex + the interjection bah, expressing astonishment. In
OE. somewhat confused with abase. Cf. Finish.]
To destroy the self-possession of; to confuse or confound, as
by exciting suddenly a consciousness of guilt, mistake, or
inferiority; to put to shame; to disconcert; to discomfit.
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Abashed, the devil stood,
And felt how awful goodness is. --Milton.
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He was a man whom no check could abash. --Macaulay.
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Syn: To confuse; confound; disconcert; shame.
Usage: To Abash, Confuse, Confound. Abash is a stronger
word than confuse, but not so strong as confound. We
are abashed when struck either with sudden shame or
with a humbling sense of inferiority; as, Peter was
abashed by the look of his Master. So a modest youth
is abashed in the presence of those who are greatly
his superiors. We are confused when, from some
unexpected or startling occurrence, we lose clearness
of thought and self-possession. Thus, a witness is
often confused by a severe cross-examination; a timid
person is apt to be confused in entering a room full
of strangers. We are confounded when our minds are
overwhelmed, as it were, by something wholly
unexpected, amazing, dreadful, etc., so that we have
nothing to say. Thus, a criminal is usually confounded
at the discovery of his guilt.
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Satan stood
Awhile as mute, confounded what to say.
--Milton.
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Abashment
(gcide) | Abashment \A*bash"ment\ (-ment), n. [Cf. F. ['e]bahissement.]
The state of being abashed; confusion from shame.
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African calabash tree
(gcide) | Calabash \Cal"a*bash\ (k[a^]l"[.a]*b[a^]sh), n. [Sp. calabaza,
or Pg. calaba[,c]a, caba[,c]a (cf. F. Calebasse), lit., a dry
gourd, fr. Ar. qar', fem., a kind of gourd + aibas dry.]
1. The common gourd (plant or fruit).
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2. The fruit of the calabash tree.
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3. A water dipper, bottle, bascket, or other utensil, made
from the dry shell of a calabash or gourd.
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Calabash tree. (Bot.), a tree of tropical America
(Crescentia cujete), producing a large gourdlike fruit,
containing a purgative pulp. Its hard shell, after the
removal of the pulp, is used for cups, bottles, etc. The
African calabash tree is the baobab.
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Calabash
(gcide) | Calabash \Cal"a*bash\ (k[a^]l"[.a]*b[a^]sh), n. [Sp. calabaza,
or Pg. calaba[,c]a, caba[,c]a (cf. F. Calebasse), lit., a dry
gourd, fr. Ar. qar', fem., a kind of gourd + aibas dry.]
1. The common gourd (plant or fruit).
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2. The fruit of the calabash tree.
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3. A water dipper, bottle, bascket, or other utensil, made
from the dry shell of a calabash or gourd.
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Calabash tree. (Bot.), a tree of tropical America
(Crescentia cujete), producing a large gourdlike fruit,
containing a purgative pulp. Its hard shell, after the
removal of the pulp, is used for cups, bottles, etc. The
African calabash tree is the baobab.
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Calabash nutmeg
(gcide) | Nutmeg \Nut"meg\, n. [OE. notemuge; note nut + OF. muge musk, of
the same origin as E. musk; cf. OF. noix muguette nutmeg, F.
noix muscade. See Nut, and Musk.] (Bot.)
The kernel of the fruit of the nutmeg tree ({Myristica
fragrans}), a native of the Molucca Islands, but cultivated
elsewhere in the tropics.
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Note: This fruit is a nearly spherical drupe, of the size of
a pear, of a yellowish color without and almost white
within. This opens into two nearly equal longitudinal
valves, inclosing the nut surrounded by its aril, which
is mace. The nutmeg is an aromatic, very grateful to
the taste and smell, and much used in cookery. Other
species of Myristica yield nutmegs of inferior
quality.
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American nutmeg, Calabash nutmeg, or Jamaica nutmeg,
the fruit of a tropical shrub (Monodora Myristica). It
is about the size of an orange, and contains many aromatic
seeds imbedded in pulp.
Brazilian nutmeg, the fruit of a lauraceous tree,
Cryptocarya moschata.
California nutmeg, a tree of the Yew family ({Torreya
Californica}), growing in the Western United States, and
having a seed which resembles a nutmeg in appearance, but
is strongly impregnated with turpentine.
Clove nutmeg, the Ravensara aromatica, a lauraceous tree
of Madagascar. The foliage is used as a spice, but the
seed is acrid and caustic.
Jamaica nutmeg. See American nutmeg (above).
Nutmeg bird (Zool.), an Indian finch (Munia punctularia).
Nutmeg butter, a solid oil extracted from the nutmeg by
expression.
Nutmeg flower (Bot.), a ranunculaceous herb ({Nigella
sativa}) with small black aromatic seeds, which are used
medicinally and for excluding moths from furs and
clothing.
Nutmeg liver (Med.), a name applied to the liver, when, as
the result of heart or lung disease, it undergoes
congestion and pigmentation about the central veins of its
lobules, giving it an appearance resembling that of a
nutmeg.
Nutmeg melon (Bot.), a small variety of muskmelon of a rich
flavor.
Nutmeg pigeon (Zool.), any one of several species of
pigeons of the genus Myristicivora, native of the East
Indies and Australia. The color is usually white, or
cream-white, with black on the wings and tail.
Nutmeg wood (Bot.), the wood of the Palmyra palm.
Peruvian nutmeg, the aromatic seed of a South American tree
(Laurelia sempervirens).
Plume nutmeg (Bot.), a spicy tree of Australia
(Atherosperma moschata).
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Calabash tree
(gcide) | Calabash \Cal"a*bash\ (k[a^]l"[.a]*b[a^]sh), n. [Sp. calabaza,
or Pg. calaba[,c]a, caba[,c]a (cf. F. Calebasse), lit., a dry
gourd, fr. Ar. qar', fem., a kind of gourd + aibas dry.]
1. The common gourd (plant or fruit).
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2. The fruit of the calabash tree.
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3. A water dipper, bottle, bascket, or other utensil, made
from the dry shell of a calabash or gourd.
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Calabash tree. (Bot.), a tree of tropical America
(Crescentia cujete), producing a large gourdlike fruit,
containing a purgative pulp. Its hard shell, after the
removal of the pulp, is used for cups, bottles, etc. The
African calabash tree is the baobab.
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Ragabash
(gcide) | Ragabash \Rag"a*bash`\ (r[a^]g"[.a]*b[a^]sh`), Ragabrash
\Rag"a*brash`\ (r[a^]g"[.a]*br[a^]sh`), n.
An idle, ragged person. --Nares. --Grose.
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Squabash
(gcide) | Squabash \Squa*bash"\ (skw[.a]*b[a^]sh"), v. t.
To crush; to quash; to squash. [Colloq. or Slang, Scot.]
--Sir W. Scott.
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Sweet calabash
(gcide) | Sweet \Sweet\, a. [Compar. Sweeter; superl. Sweetest.] [OE.
swete, swote, sote, AS. sw[=e]te; akin to OFries. sw[=e]te,
OS. sw[=o]ti, D. zoet, G. s["u]ss, OHG. suozi, Icel. saetr,
soetr, Sw. s["o]t, Dan. s["o]d, Goth. suts, L. suavis, for
suadvis, Gr. ?, Skr. sv[=a]du sweet, svad, sv[=a]d, to
sweeten. [root]175. Cf. Assuage, Suave, Suasion.]
1. Having an agreeable taste or flavor such as that of sugar;
saccharine; -- opposed to sour and bitter; as, a sweet
beverage; sweet fruits; sweet oranges.
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2. Pleasing to the smell; fragrant; redolent; balmy; as, a
sweet rose; sweet odor; sweet incense.
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The breath of these flowers is sweet to me.
--Longfellow.
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3. Pleasing to the ear; soft; melodious; harmonious; as, the
sweet notes of a flute or an organ; sweet music; a sweet
voice; a sweet singer.
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To make his English sweet upon his tongue.
--Chaucer.
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A voice sweet, tremulous, but powerful. --Hawthorne.
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4. Pleasing to the eye; beautiful; mild and attractive; fair;
as, a sweet face; a sweet color or complexion.
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Sweet interchange
Of hill and valley, rivers, woods, and plains.
--Milton.
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5. Fresh; not salt or brackish; as, sweet water. --Bacon.
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6. Not changed from a sound or wholesome state. Specifically:
(a) Not sour; as, sweet milk or bread.
(b) Not state; not putrescent or putrid; not rancid; as,
sweet butter; sweet meat or fish.
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7. Plaesing to the mind; mild; gentle; calm; amiable;
winning; presuasive; as, sweet manners.
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Canst thou bind the sweet influence of Pleiades?
--Job xxxviii.
31.
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Mildness and sweet reasonableness is the one
established rule of Christian working. --M. Arnold.
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Note: Sweet is often used in the formation of self-explaining
compounds; as, sweet-blossomed, sweet-featured,
sweet-smelling, sweet-tempered, sweet-toned, etc.
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Sweet alyssum. (Bot.) See Alyssum.
Sweet apple. (Bot.)
(a) Any apple of sweet flavor.
(b) See Sweet-sop.
Sweet bay. (Bot.)
(a) The laurel (Laurus nobilis).
(b) Swamp sassafras.
Sweet calabash (Bot.), a plant of the genus Passiflora
(Passiflora maliformis) growing in the West Indies, and
producing a roundish, edible fruit, the size of an apple.
Sweet cicely. (Bot.)
(a) Either of the North American plants of the
umbelliferous genus Osmorrhiza having aromatic roots
and seeds, and white flowers. --Gray.
(b) A plant of the genus Myrrhis (Myrrhis odorata)
growing in England.
Sweet calamus, or Sweet cane. (Bot.) Same as {Sweet
flag}, below.
Sweet Cistus (Bot.), an evergreen shrub (Cistus Ladanum)
from which the gum ladanum is obtained.
Sweet clover. (Bot.) See Melilot.
Sweet coltsfoot (Bot.), a kind of butterbur ({Petasites
sagittata}) found in Western North America.
Sweet corn (Bot.), a variety of the maize of a sweet taste.
See the Note under Corn.
Sweet fern (Bot.), a small North American shrub ({Comptonia
asplenifolia} syn. Myrica asplenifolia) having
sweet-scented or aromatic leaves resembling fern leaves.
Sweet flag (Bot.), an endogenous plant (Acorus Calamus)
having long flaglike leaves and a rootstock of a pungent
aromatic taste. It is found in wet places in Europe and
America. See Calamus, 2.
Sweet gale (Bot.), a shrub (Myrica Gale) having bitter
fragrant leaves; -- also called sweet willow, and {Dutch
myrtle}. See 5th Gale.
Sweet grass (Bot.), holy, or Seneca, grass.
Sweet gum (Bot.), an American tree ({Liquidambar
styraciflua}). See Liquidambar.
Sweet herbs, fragrant herbs cultivated for culinary
purposes.
Sweet John (Bot.), a variety of the sweet William.
Sweet leaf (Bot.), horse sugar. See under Horse.
Sweet marjoram. (Bot.) See Marjoram.
Sweet marten (Zool.), the pine marten.
Sweet maudlin (Bot.), a composite plant ({Achillea
Ageratum}) allied to milfoil.
Sweet oil, olive oil.
Sweet pea. (Bot.) See under Pea.
Sweet potato. (Bot.) See under Potato.
Sweet rush (Bot.), sweet flag.
Sweet spirits of niter (Med. Chem.) See {Spirit of nitrous
ether}, under Spirit.
Sweet sultan (Bot.), an annual composite plant ({Centaurea
moschata}), also, the yellow-flowered ({Centaurea
odorata}); -- called also sultan flower.
Sweet tooth, an especial fondness for sweet things or for
sweetmeats. [Colloq.]
Sweet William.
(a) (Bot.) A species of pink (Dianthus barbatus) of many
varieties.
(b) (Zool.) The willow warbler.
(c) (Zool.) The European goldfinch; -- called also {sweet
Billy}. [Prov. Eng.]
Sweet willow (Bot.), sweet gale.
Sweet wine. See Dry wine, under Dry.
To be sweet on, to have a particular fondness for, or
special interest in, as a young man for a young woman.
[Colloq.] --Thackeray.
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Syn: Sugary; saccharine; dulcet; luscious.
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tabasheer
(gcide) | tabasheer \tab`a*sheer"\ (t[a^]b`[.a]*sh[=e]r"), n. [Per.
tab[=a]sh[imac]r: cf. Skr. tvakksh[imac]r[=a],
tvaksh[imac]r[=a].]
A concretion in the joints of the bamboo, which consists
largely or chiefly of pure silica. It is highly valued in the
East Indies as a medicine for the cure of bilious vomitings,
bloody flux, piles, and various other diseases.
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Unabashed
(gcide) | Unabashed \Unabashed\
See abashed. |
abashed
(wn) | abashed
adj 1: feeling or caused to feel uneasy and self-conscious;
"felt abashed at the extravagant praise"; "chagrined at
the poor sales of his book"; "was embarrassed by her
child's tantrums" [syn: abashed, chagrined,
embarrassed] |
abashment
(wn) | abashment
n 1: feeling embarrassed due to modesty [syn: abashment,
bashfulness] |
calabash
(wn) | calabash
n 1: round gourd of the calabash tree
2: tropical American evergreen that produces large round gourds
[syn: calabash, calabash tree, Crescentia cujete]
3: Old World climbing plant with hard-shelled bottle-shaped
gourds as fruits [syn: bottle gourd, calabash, {Lagenaria
siceraria}]
4: bottle made from the dried shell of a bottle gourd [syn:
gourd, calabash]
5: a pipe for smoking; has a curved stem and a large bowl made
from a calabash gourd [syn: calabash, calabash pipe] |
calabash pipe
(wn) | calabash pipe
n 1: a pipe for smoking; has a curved stem and a large bowl made
from a calabash gourd [syn: calabash, calabash pipe] |
calabash tree
(wn) | calabash tree
n 1: tropical American evergreen that produces large round
gourds [syn: calabash, calabash tree, {Crescentia
cujete}] |
little wabash
(wn) | Little Wabash
n 1: a river in eastern Illinois that flows southeastward to the
Wabash River [syn: Little Wabash, Little Wabash River] |
little wabash river
(wn) | Little Wabash River
n 1: a river in eastern Illinois that flows southeastward to the
Wabash River [syn: Little Wabash, Little Wabash River] |
sweet calabash
(wn) | sweet calabash
n 1: West Indian passionflower with edible apple-sized fruit
[syn: sweet calabash, Passiflora maliformis]
2: apple-sized passion fruit of the West Indies |
unabashed
(wn) | unabashed
adj 1: not embarrassed; "a tinseled charm and unabashed
sentimentality"- Jerome Stone; "an unembarrassed greeting
as if nothing untoward had happened" [syn: unabashed,
unembarrassed] |
unabashedly
(wn) | unabashedly
adv 1: in an unabashed manner; "unabashedly, he asked for more" |
wabash
(wn) | Wabash
n 1: a tributary of the Ohio River that rises in western Ohio
and flows southwestward across Indiana [syn: Wabash,
Wabash River] |
wabash river
(wn) | Wabash River
n 1: a tributary of the Ohio River that rises in western Ohio
and flows southwestward across Indiana [syn: Wabash,
Wabash River] |
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