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dour
(encz) | dour,tvrdohlavý adj: Zdeněk Brož |
dour
(encz) | dour,zarputilý adj: Zdeněk Brož |
Dour
(gcide) | Dour \Dour\, a. [Cf. F. dur, L. durus.]
Hard; inflexible; obstinate; sour in aspect; hardy; bold.
[Scot.]
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A dour wife, a sour old carlin. --C. Reade.
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dour
(wn) | dour
adj 1: stubbornly unyielding; "dogged persistence"; "dour
determination"; "the most vocal and pertinacious of all
the critics"; "a mind not gifted to discover truth but
tenacious to hold it"- T.S.Eliot; "men tenacious of
opinion" [syn: dogged, dour, persistent,
pertinacious, tenacious, unyielding]
2: harshly uninviting or formidable in manner or appearance; "a
dour, self-sacrificing life"; "a forbidding scowl"; "a grim
man loving duty more than humanity"; "undoubtedly the
grimmest part of him was his iron claw"- J.M.Barrie [syn:
dour, forbidding, grim]
3: showing a brooding ill humor; "a dark scowl"; "the
proverbially dour New England Puritan"; "a glum, hopeless
shrug"; "he sat in moody silence"; "a morose and unsociable
manner"; "a saturnine, almost misanthropic young genius"-
Bruce Bliven; "a sour temper"; "a sullen crowd" [syn: dark,
dour, glowering, glum, moody, morose, saturnine,
sour, sullen] |
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odour
(mass) | odour
- aróma, vôňa |
ardour
(encz) | ardour,horlivost n: Zdeněk Brožardour,zanícení n: Zdeněk Brožardour,zápal n: Zdeněk Brož |
body odour
(encz) | body odour,tělesný pach n: Ivan Masár |
candour
(encz) | candour,nezaujatost n: sladycandour,otevřenost n: Zdeněk Brožcandour,upřímnost n: Zdeněk Brož |
deodourant
(encz) | deodourant, n: |
deodourise
(encz) | deodourise, v: |
doura
(encz) | doura, n: |
dourah
(encz) | dourah, n: |
dourly
(encz) | dourly,zarputile adv: Zdeněk Brož |
dourness
(encz) | dourness,tvrdošíjnost n: Zdeněk Broždourness,zarytost n: Zdeněk Brož |
douroucouli
(encz) | douroucouli, n: |
malodour
(encz) | malodour, n: |
malodourous
(encz) | malodourous, adj: |
odour
(encz) | odour,aroma n: Zdeněk Brožodour,pach n: Zdeněk Brožodour,pach (vody) [eko.] RNDr. Pavel Piskačodour,vůně Zdeněk Brožodour,zápach n: Pino |
odour intensity
(encz) | odour intensity,míra pachu (vody) [eko.] RNDr. Pavel Piskač |
odourise
(encz) | odourise, v: |
odourless
(encz) | odourless,bez zápachu Toldaodourless,nevonící adj: Zdeněk Brož |
pompadour
(encz) | pompadour,druh účesu n: Zdeněk Brož |
splendour
(encz) | splendour,honosnost n: Zdeněk Brožsplendour,nádhera n: Zdeněk Brož |
threshold concentration of odour
(encz) | threshold concentration of odour,prahová koncentrace pachu
(vody) [eko.] RNDr. Pavel Piskač |
troubadour
(encz) | troubadour,trubadůr n: Zdeněk Brož |
ardour
(gcide) | Ardor \Ar"dor\, n. [L. ardor, fr. ardere to burn: cf. OF. ardor,
ardur, F. ardeur.] [Spelt also ardour.]
1. Heat, in a literal sense; as, the ardor of the sun's rays.
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2. Warmth or heat of passion or affection; eagerness; zeal;
as, he pursues study with ardor; the fought with ardor;
martial ardor.
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3. pl. Bright and effulgent spirits; seraphim. [Thus used by
Milton.]
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Syn: Fervor; warmth; eagerness. See Fervor.
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candour
(gcide) | Candor \Can"dor\, n. [Written also candour.] [L. candor, fr.
cand["e]re; cf. F. candeur. See candid.]
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1. Whiteness; brightness; (as applied to moral conditions)
usullied purity; innocence. [Obs.]
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Nor yor unquestioned integrity
Shall e'er be sullied with one taint or spot
That may take from your innocence and candor.
--Massinger.
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2. A disposition to treat subjects with fairness; freedom
from prejudice or disguise; frankness; sincerity.
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Attribute superior sagacity and candor to those who
held that side of the question. --Whewell.
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Dour
(gcide) | Dour \Dour\, a. [Cf. F. dur, L. durus.]
Hard; inflexible; obstinate; sour in aspect; hardy; bold.
[Scot.]
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A dour wife, a sour old carlin. --C. Reade.
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dour glowering glum moody morose saturnine sour sullen
(gcide) | Ill-natured \Ill`-na"tured\, a.
1. Of habitual bad temper; having an unpleasant disposition;
surly; disagreeable; cross; peevish; fractious; crabbed;
-- of people; as, an ill-natured person; an ill-natured
disagreeable old man. Opposite of good-natured.
[Narrower terms: {argumentative, contentious,
disputatious, disputative, litigious : {atrabilious,
bilious, dyspeptic, liverish : {bristly, prickly,
snappish, splenetic, waspish : {cantankerous, crotchety,
ornery : {choleric, irascible, hotheaded, hot-headed,
hot-tempered, quick-tempered, short-tempered : {crabbed,
crabby, cross, fussy, fussbudgety, grouchy, grumpy,
bad-tempered, ill-tempered}: {cranky, fractious,
irritable, peevish, peckish, pettish, petulant, testy,
tetchy, techy : {crusty, curmudgeonly, gruff, ill-humored,
ill-humoured}: {dour, glowering, glum, moody, morose,
saturnine, sour, sullen : {feisty, touchy : {huffish,
sulky}: {misanthropic, misanthropical : {misogynous :
shirty, snorty ill-tempered or annoyed): {shrewish,
nagging, vixenish : surly, ugly ] Also See: {unpleasant.
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2. Dictated by, or indicating, ill nature; spiteful. "The
ill-natured task refuse." --Addison.
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3. Intractable; not yielding to culture. [R.] "Ill-natured
land." --J. Philips.
3. not to one's liking; unpleasant; disagreeable. Opposite of
agreeable. [WordNet sense 2] [Narrower terms: {annoying,
galling, chafing, irritating, nettlesome, pesky,
pestiferous, pestilent, plaguy, plaguey, teasing,
vexatious, vexing}; {nerve-racking, nerve-wracking,
stressful, trying ]
Syn: disagreeable.
[WordNet 1.5] -- Ill`-na"tured*ly, adv. --
Ill`-na"tured*ness, n.
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Doura
(gcide) | Doura \Dou"ra\, dourah \dourah\, n.
sorghums of dry regions of Asia and North Africa; A kind of
millet. See Durra.
Syn: durra, doura, dourah, Egyptian corn, Indian millet,
Guinea corn.
[1913 Webster]Durra \Dur"ra\, n. [Ar. dhorra.] (Bot.)
A kind of millet, cultivated throughout Asia, and introduced
into the south of Europe; a variety of Sorghum vulgare; --
called also Indian millet, and Guinea corn. [Written also
dhoorra, dhurra, doura, etc.]
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doura
(gcide) | Doura \Dou"ra\, dourah \dourah\, n.
sorghums of dry regions of Asia and North Africa; A kind of
millet. See Durra.
Syn: durra, doura, dourah, Egyptian corn, Indian millet,
Guinea corn.
[1913 Webster]Durra \Dur"ra\, n. [Ar. dhorra.] (Bot.)
A kind of millet, cultivated throughout Asia, and introduced
into the south of Europe; a variety of Sorghum vulgare; --
called also Indian millet, and Guinea corn. [Written also
dhoorra, dhurra, doura, etc.]
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dourah
(gcide) | Doura \Dou"ra\, dourah \dourah\, n.
sorghums of dry regions of Asia and North Africa; A kind of
millet. See Durra.
Syn: durra, doura, dourah, Egyptian corn, Indian millet,
Guinea corn.
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dourikuli
(gcide) | Douroucouli \Dou`rou*cou"li\, n. (Zool.)
A small, nocturnal, South American monkey of the genus
Aotus (formerly Nyctipithecus trivirgatus), with large
owl-like eyes; hence, the common name owl monkey. [Written
also Durukuli and dourikuli.]
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Douroucouli
(gcide) | Douroucouli \Dou`rou*cou"li\, n. (Zool.)
A small, nocturnal, South American monkey of the genus
Aotus (formerly Nyctipithecus trivirgatus), with large
owl-like eyes; hence, the common name owl monkey. [Written
also Durukuli and dourikuli.]
[1913 Webster +PJC ]Durukuli \Du`ru*ku"li\, n. (Zool.)
A small, nocturnal, South American monkey of the genus
Aotus (formerly Nyctipthecus trivirgatus). The {owl
monkey}. See douroucouli. [Written also douroucouli.]
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douroucouli
(gcide) | Douroucouli \Dou`rou*cou"li\, n. (Zool.)
A small, nocturnal, South American monkey of the genus
Aotus (formerly Nyctipithecus trivirgatus), with large
owl-like eyes; hence, the common name owl monkey. [Written
also Durukuli and dourikuli.]
[1913 Webster +PJC ]Durukuli \Du`ru*ku"li\, n. (Zool.)
A small, nocturnal, South American monkey of the genus
Aotus (formerly Nyctipthecus trivirgatus). The {owl
monkey}. See douroucouli. [Written also douroucouli.]
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Mockadour
(gcide) | Mockadour \Mock"a*dour\, n.
See Mokadour. [Obs.]
[1913 Webster]Muckender \Muck"en*der\ (m[u^]k"[e^]n*d[~e]r), n. [Sp. mocador.
Cf. Mokadour.]
A handkerchief. [Obs.] [Written also muckinder, muckiter,
mockadour.]
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mockadour
(gcide) | Mockadour \Mock"a*dour\, n.
See Mokadour. [Obs.]
[1913 Webster]Muckender \Muck"en*der\ (m[u^]k"[e^]n*d[~e]r), n. [Sp. mocador.
Cf. Mokadour.]
A handkerchief. [Obs.] [Written also muckinder, muckiter,
mockadour.]
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Mokadour
(gcide) | Mokadour \Mok"a*dour\, n. [Sp. mocador handkerchief.]
A handkerchief. [Obs.]
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odour
(gcide) | Odor \O"dor\ ([=o]"d[~e]r), n. [OE. odor, odour, OF. odor,
odour, F. odeur, fr. L. odor; akin to olere to smell, Gr.
'o`zein, Lith. [*u]sti. Cf. Olfactory, Osmium, Ozone,
Redolent.] [Written also odour.]
Any smell, whether fragrant or offensive; scent; perfume.
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Meseemed I smelt a garden of sweet flowers,
That dainty odors from them threw around. --Spenser.
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To be in bad odor, to be out of favor, or in bad repute.
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odourous
(gcide) | Odorous \O"dor*ous\, a. [Written also odourous.] [L. odorus,
fr. odor odor: cf. OF. odoros, odoreux.]
Having or emitting an odor or scent, esp. a sweet odor;
fragrant; sweet-smelling. "Odorous bloom." --Keble.
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Such fragrant flowers do give most odorous smell.
--Spenser.
[1913 Webster] -- O"dor*ous*ly, adv. -- O"dor*ous*ness,
n.
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Pandour
(gcide) | Pandour \Pan"dour\, n.
1. One of a class of Hungarian mountaineers serving in the
Austrian army that served as local militia in Croatia; --
so called from Pandur, a principal town in the region from
which they originally came. They were noted for their
ruthlessness. [Written also pandoor.]
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Her whiskered pandours and her fierce hussars.
--Campbell.
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2. Hence: A brutal soldier.
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pandoura
(gcide) | pandoura \pan*dour"a\, n.
See pandore .
[PJC]pandore \pan"dore\ (p[a^]n"d[=o]r or p[a^]n*d[=o]r"), n. [F. See
Bandore.]
An ancient musical instrument, of the lute kind; a bandore.
[Written also pandora, pandoura. pandure, and
pandoran.]
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Pompadour
(gcide) | Pompadour \Pom"pa*dour\, n.
A crimson or pink color; also, a style of dress cut low and
square in the neck; also, a mode of dressing the hair by
drawing it straight back from the forehead over a roll; -- so
called after the Marchioness de Pompadour of France. Also
much used adjectively.
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Reddour
(gcide) | Reddour \Red"dour\ (r?d"d?r), n. [F. raideur, fr. raide stiff.]
Rigor; violence. [Obs.] --Gower.
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Rose de Pompadour
(gcide) | Rose \Rose\, n. [AS. rose, L. rosa, probably akin to Gr. ?,
Armor. vard, OPer. vareda; and perhaps to E. wort: cf. F.
rose, from the Latin. Cf. Copperas, Rhododendron.]
1. A flower and shrub of any species of the genus Rosa, of
which there are many species, mostly found in the morthern
hemispere
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Note: Roses are shrubs with pinnate leaves and usually
prickly stems. The flowers are large, and in the wild
state have five petals of a color varying from deep
pink to white, or sometimes yellow. By cultivation and
hybridizing the number of petals is greatly increased
and the natural perfume enhanced. In this way many
distinct classes of roses have been formed, as the
Banksia, Baurbon, Boursalt, China, Noisette, hybrid
perpetual, etc., with multitudes of varieties in nearly
every class.
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2. A knot of ribbon formed like a rose; a rose knot; a
rosette, esp. one worn on a shoe. --Sha.
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3. (Arch.) A rose window. See Rose window, below.
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4. A perforated nozzle, as of a pipe, spout, etc., for
delivering water in fine jets; a rosehead; also, a
strainer at the foot of a pump.
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5. (Med.) The erysipelas. --Dunglison.
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6. The card of the mariner's compass; also, a circular card
with radiating lines, used in other instruments.
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7. The color of a rose; rose-red; pink.
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8. A diamond. See Rose diamond, below.
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Cabbage rose, China rose, etc. See under Cabbage,
China, etc.
Corn rose (Bot.) See Corn poppy, under Corn.
Infantile rose (Med.), a variety of roseola.
Jamaica rose. (Bot.) See under Jamaica.
Rose acacia (Bot.), a low American leguminous shrub
(Robinia hispida) with handsome clusters of rose-colored
blossoms.
Rose aniline. (Chem.) Same as Rosaniline.
Rose apple (Bot.), the fruit of the tropical myrtaceous
tree Eugenia Jambos. It is an edible berry an inch or
more in diameter, and is said to have a very strong
roselike perfume.
Rose beetle. (Zool.)
(a) A small yellowish or buff longlegged beetle
(Macrodactylus subspinosus), which eats the leaves
of various plants, and is often very injurious to
rosebushes, apple trees, grapevines, etc. Called also
rose bug, and rose chafer.
(b) The European chafer.
Rose bug. (Zool.) same as Rose beetle, Rose chafer.
Rose burner, a kind of gas-burner producing a rose-shaped
flame.
Rose camphor (Chem.), a solid odorless substance which
separates from rose oil.
Rose campion. (Bot.) See under Campion.
Rose catarrh (Med.), rose cold.
Rose chafer. (Zool.)
(a) A common European beetle (Cetonia aurata) which is
often very injurious to rosebushes; -- called also
rose beetle, and rose fly.
(b) The rose beetle
(a) .
Rose cold (Med.), a variety of hay fever, sometimes
attributed to the inhalation of the effluvia of roses. See
Hay fever, under Hay.
Rose color, the color of a rose; pink; hence, a beautiful
hue or appearance; fancied beauty, attractiveness, or
promise.
Rose de Pompadour, Rose du Barry, names succesively given
to a delicate rose color used on S[`e]vres porcelain.
Rose diamond, a diamond, one side of which is flat, and the
other cut into twenty-four triangular facets in two ranges
which form a convex face pointed at the top. Cf.
Brilliant, n.
Rose ear. See under Ear.
Rose elder (Bot.), the Guelder-rose.
Rose engine, a machine, or an appendage to a turning lathe,
by which a surface or wood, metal, etc., is engraved with
a variety of curved lines. --Craig.
Rose family (Bot.) the Roseceae. See Rosaceous.
Rose fever (Med.), rose cold.
Rose fly (Zool.), a rose betle, or rose chafer.
Rose gall (Zool.), any gall found on rosebushes. See
Bedeguar.
Rose knot, a ribbon, or other pliade band plaited so as to
resemble a rose; a rosette.
Rose lake, Rose madder, a rich tint prepared from lac and
madder precipitated on an earthy basis. --Fairholt.
Rose mallow. (Bot.)
(a) A name of several malvaceous plants of the genus
Hibiscus, with large rose-colored flowers.
(b) the hollyhock.
Rose nail, a nail with a convex, faceted head.
Rose noble, an ancient English gold coin, stamped with the
figure of a rose, first struck in the reign of Edward
III., and current at 6s. 8d. --Sir W. Scott.
Rose of China. (Bot.) See China rose
(b), under China.
Rose of Jericho (Bot.), a Syrian cruciferous plant
(Anastatica Hierochuntica) which rolls up when dry, and
expands again when moistened; -- called also {resurrection
plant}.
Rose of Sharon (Bot.), an ornamental malvaceous shrub
(Hibiscus Syriacus). In the Bible the name is used for
some flower not yet identified, perhaps a Narcissus, or
possibly the great lotus flower.
Rose oil (Chem.), the yellow essential oil extracted from
various species of rose blossoms, and forming the chief
part of attar of roses.
Rose pink, a pigment of a rose color, made by dyeing chalk
or whiting with a decoction of Brazil wood and alum; also,
the color of the pigment.
Rose quartz (Min.), a variety of quartz which is rose-red.
Rose rash. (Med.) Same as Roseola.
Rose slug (Zool.), the small green larva of a black sawfly
(Selandria rosae). These larvae feed in groups on the
parenchyma of the leaves of rosebushes, and are often
abundant and very destructive.
Rose window (Arch.), a circular window filled with
ornamental tracery. Called also Catherine wheel, and
marigold window. Cf. wheel window, under Wheel.
Summer rose (Med.), a variety of roseola. See Roseola.
Under the rose [a translation of L. sub rosa], in secret;
privately; in a manner that forbids disclosure; -- the
rose being among the ancients the symbol of secrecy, and
hung up at entertainments as a token that nothing there
said was to be divulged.
Wars of the Roses (Eng. Hist.), feuds between the Houses of
York and Lancaster, the white rose being the badge of the
House of York, and the red rose of the House of Lancaster.
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Troubadour
(gcide) | Troubadour \Trou"ba*dour`\, n. [F. troubadour, fr. Pr. trobador,
(assumed) LL. tropator a singer, tropare to sing, fr. tropus
a kind of singing, a melody, song, L. tropus a trope, a song,
Gr. ? a turn, way, manner, particular mode in music, a trope.
See Trope, and cf. Trouv?re.]
One of a school of poets who flourished from the eleventh to
the thirteenth century, principally in Provence, in the south
of France, and also in the north of Italy. They invented, and
especially cultivated, a kind of lyrical poetry characterized
by intricacy of meter and rhyme, and usually of a romantic,
amatory strain.
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ardour
(wn) | ardour
n 1: a feeling of strong eagerness (usually in favor of a person
or cause); "they were imbued with a revolutionary ardor";
"he felt a kind of religious zeal" [syn: ardor, ardour,
elan, zeal]
2: intense feeling of love [syn: ardor, ardour]
3: feelings of great warmth and intensity; "he spoke with great
ardor" [syn: ardor, ardour, fervor, fervour,
fervency, fire, fervidness] |
body odour
(wn) | body odour
n 1: malodorousness resulting from a failure to bathe [syn:
body odor, body odour, B.O.] |
candour
(wn) | candour
n 1: the quality of being honest and straightforward in attitude
and speech [syn: candor, candour, candidness,
frankness, directness, forthrightness]
2: ability to make judgments free from discrimination or
dishonesty [syn: fairness, fair-mindedness, candor,
candour] [ant: unfairness] |
deodourant
(wn) | deodourant
n 1: a toiletry applied to the skin in order to mask unpleasant
odors [syn: deodorant, deodourant] |
deodourise
(wn) | deodourise
v 1: eliminate the odor from; "This stick will deodorize your
armpits" [syn: deodorize, deodorise, deodourise]
[ant: odorize, odourise, scent] |
doura
(wn) | doura
n 1: sorghums of dry regions of Asia and North Africa [syn:
durra, doura, dourah, Egyptian corn, {Indian
millet}, Guinea corn] |
dourah
(wn) | dourah
n 1: sorghums of dry regions of Asia and North Africa [syn:
durra, doura, dourah, Egyptian corn, {Indian
millet}, Guinea corn] |
dourly
(wn) | dourly
adv 1: in a sullen manner; "he sat in his chair dourly" [syn:
dourly, sullenly, glumly] |
douroucouli
(wn) | douroucouli
n 1: nocturnal monkey of Central America and South America with
large eyes and thick fur [syn: douroucouli, {Aotus
trivirgatus}] |
malodour
(wn) | malodour
n 1: a distinctive odor that is offensively unpleasant [syn:
malodor, malodour, stench, stink, reek, fetor,
foetor, mephitis] |
malodourous
(wn) | malodourous
adj 1: having an unpleasant smell [syn: malodorous,
malodourous, unpleasant-smelling, ill-smelling,
stinky] [ant: fragrant] |
marquise de pompadour
(wn) | Marquise de Pompadour
n 1: French noblewoman who was the lover of Louis XV, whose
policies she influenced (1721-1764) [syn: Pompadour,
Marquise de Pompadour, Jeanne Antoinette Poisson] |
odour
(wn) | odour
n 1: the sensation that results when olfactory receptors in the
nose are stimulated by particular chemicals in gaseous
form; "she loved the smell of roses" [syn: smell, odor,
odour, olfactory sensation, olfactory perception]
2: any property detected by the olfactory system [syn:
olfactory property, smell, aroma, odor, odour,
scent] |
odourise
(wn) | odourise
v 1: cause to smell or be smelly [syn: odorize, odourise,
scent] [ant: deodorise, deodorize, deodourise] |
odourless
(wn) | odourless
adj 1: having no odor; "odorless gas"; "odorless flowers" [syn:
odorless, odourless, inodorous] [ant: odorous] |
pompadour
(wn) | Pompadour
n 1: French noblewoman who was the lover of Louis XV, whose
policies she influenced (1721-1764) [syn: Pompadour,
Marquise de Pompadour, Jeanne Antoinette Poisson]
2: a hair style in which the front hair is swept up from the
forehead
v 1: style women's hair in a pompadour |
splendour
(wn) | splendour
n 1: a quality that outshines the usual [syn: luster,
lustre, brilliancy, splendor, splendour]
2: the quality of being magnificent or splendid or grand; "for
magnificence and personal service there is the Queen's
hotel"; "his `Hamlet' lacks the brilliance that one expects";
"it is the university that gives the scene its stately
splendor"; "an imaginative mix of old-fashioned grandeur and
colorful art"; "advertisers capitalize on the grandness and
elegance it brings to their products" [syn: magnificence,
brilliance, splendor, splendour, grandeur,
grandness] |
troubadour
(wn) | troubadour
n 1: a singer of folk songs [syn: folk singer, jongleur,
minstrel, poet-singer, troubadour] |
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