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a body of permeable rock or sediment that holds groundwater.
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having the base color muted and lightened by a mixture of white hairs; relating to animals.
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a medieval knight's warhorse.
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a boy kept for homosexual practices.
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cautiously reluctant to do something.
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a long lock of a woman's hair.
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having a structure in which words are repeated in reverse order.
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a chess move where a bishop is developed onto the second rank of the adjacent knight's file.
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a criminal act where something is bought by a person on behalf of someone who can not legally do so.
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to make something dirty or messy.
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the turning of a plant or organism in response to touch.
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forbidden, especially by authority.
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one employed to write from dictation or to copy manuscript.
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to produce a loud, usually protracted, high-pitched, rhythmical sound as an expression of sorrow, joy, celebration, or reverence.
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bad-tempered and irritable.
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an unsharpened length of blade just above the guard/handle on a dagger or sword.
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an arm on a cross guard of a sword.
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an addition to a will that modifies, explains or revokes.
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pieces of plate armor worn to protect the waist.
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to lower one's body briefly by bending one knee; usually during worship.