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dazen
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verb
- To jump back or sideways in fear or surprise; to shy, as a horse.
- To look at obliquely; to squint; hence, to look slightingly or suspiciously.
- To cause (a distribution) to be asymmetrical.
- To bias or distort in a particular direction.
- To move obliquely; to move sideways, to sidle; to lie obliquely.
- To hurl or throw.
- To form or shape in an oblique way; to cause to take an oblique position.
noun
- A squint or sidelong glance.
- A state of asymmetry in a distribution; skewness.
- The coping of a gable.
- A phenomenon in synchronous digital circuit systems (such as computers) in which the same sourced clock signal arrives at different components at different times.
- Something that has an oblique or slanted position.
- A kind of wooden vane or cowl in a chimney which revolves according to the direction of the wind and prevents smoking.
- An oblique or sideways movement.
- A piece of rock lying in a slanting position and tapering upwards which overhangs a working-place in a mine and is liable to fall.
- A stone at the foot of the slope of a gable, the offset of a buttress, etc., cut with a sloping surface and with a check to receive the coping stones and retain them in place; a skew-corbel.
- A bias or distortion in a particular direction.
adj
- Of a distribution: asymmetrical about its mean.
- Neither parallel nor perpendicular to a certain line; askew.
- Of two lines in three-dimensional space: neither intersecting nor parallel.
adv
verb
- To jump back in fear.
- To avoid due to caution, embarrassment or timidness.
- (transitive) or (intransitive) To throw a ball with two hands above the head, especially when it has crossed the side lines in a football (soccer) match. To hit the ball back into play from the sidelines in a shinty match.
- To throw sideways with a jerk; to fling.
adj
- Easily frightened; timid.
- Embarrassed.
- Cautious; wary; suspicious.
- Reserved; disinclined to familiar approach.
- Short, insufficient or less than.
noun
- In the Eton College wall game, a point scored by lifting the ball against the wall in the calx.
- In soccer, a throw-in from the sidelines, using two hands above the head. In shinty, the act of tossing the ball above the head and hitting it with the shaft of the caman to bring it back into play after it has been hit out of the field.
- An act of throwing.
- A place for throwing.
- A sudden start aside, as by a horse.
verb
- To frighten or terrify (someone or something), as if using a scarecrow.
- To cause (a person, their body, etc.) to look awkward and stiff, like a scarecrow (noun sense 1).
- To splay (one's arms) away from the body, like the arms of a scarecrow.
noun
- Anything that appears terrifying but presents no danger; a paper tiger.
- Military equipment or tactics used to scare and deter rather than cause actual damage.
- A person regarded as resembling a scarecrow (sense 1) in some way; especially, a tall, thin, awkward person; or a person wearing ragged and tattered clothes.
- An effigy, typically made of straw and dressed in old clothes, fixed to a pole in a field to deter birds from eating crops or seeds planted there.
noun
- The act of running away, especially of a horse or teams.
- An overwhelming victory.
- An object or process that is out of control or out of equilibrium.
- A person or animal that runs away or has run away; a person, animal, or organization that escapes captivity or restrictions.
- A vehicle (especially, a train) that is out of control.
adj
- Having escaped from the control of the rider or driver.
- Unchecked; rampant.
- Having run away; escaped; fugitive.
- Deserting or revolting against one's group, duties, expected conduct, or the like, especially to establish or join a rival group, change one's life drastically, etc.
- Accelerating out of control.
- Easily won, as a contest.
- Pertaining to or accomplished by running away or eloping.
verb
- To become frightened (by something startling).
- To frighten or make nervous (especially by startling).
- To haunt.
noun
- A ghost or phantom.
- An undercover agent or spy.
- A hobgoblin.
- A scare or fright.
- A psychiatrist.
- A player who engages in hole carding by attempting to glimpse the dealer's hole card when the dealer checks under an ace or a 10 to see if a blackjack is present.
- A metaphysical manifestation; an artificial distinction or construct.
verb
- To rise from a lying or sitting position.
- To bring something up and set it into a standing position.
- To stand immediately behind the wicket so as to catch balls from a slow or spin bowler, and to attempt to stump the batsman.
- To launch, propel upwards
- (stand someone up) To avoid a prearranged meeting, especially a date, with (a person) without prior notification; to jilt or shirk.
- To last or endure over a period of time.
- To formally activate and commission (a unit, formation, etc.).
- to make one's voice heard, to speak up
- To continue to be believable, consistent, or plausible.
verb
- To lurch forward; especially, of a horse, to stumble after hitting the ground with the toe instead of the flat of the foot.
- To form by striking with the beak or a pointed instrument.
- To strike or pierce with the beak or bill (of a bird).
- To type in general.
- To strike, pick, thrust against, or dig into, with a pointed instrument, especially with repeated quick movements.
- To type by searching for each key individually.
- To seize and pick up with the beak, or as if with the beak; to bite; to eat; often with up.
- To throw.
- To do something in small, intermittent pieces.
- To kiss briefly.
noun
noun
- A leaping, jumping or skipping movement.
- A large open-topped container for waste, designed to be lifted onto the back of a truck to remove it along with its contents. (see also skep).
- A college servant.
- A skip car.
- The player who calls the shots and traditionally throws the last two rocks.
- An Australian of Anglo-Celtic descent.
- The scoutmaster of a troop of scouts (youth organization) and their form of address to him.
- The act of passing over an interval from one thing to another; an omission of a part.
- A wheeled basket used in cotton factories.
- A skep, or basket, such as a creel or a handbasket.
- A person who attempts to disappear so as not to be found.
- A charge of syrup in the pans.
- A passage from one sound to another by more than a degree at once.
- skywave propagation
- The captain of a sports team. Also, a form of address by the team to the captain.
- The captain of a bowls team, who directs the team's tactics and rolls the side's last wood, so as to be able to retrieve a difficult situation if necessary.
- A beehive.
- A transportation container in a mine, usually for ore or mullock.
verb
- To move by hopping on alternate feet.
- To cause the stylus to jump back to the previous loop of the record's groove, continously repeating that part of the sound, as a result of excessive scratching or wear.
- To skim, ricochet or bounce over a surface.
- To pass by a stitch as if it were not there, continuing with the next stitch.
- To place an item in a skip (etymology 2, sense 1).
- To throw (something), making it skim, ricochet, or bounce over a surface.
- To disregard, miss or omit part of a continuation (some item or stage).
- To have insufficient ink transfer.
- To leap about lightly.
- Not to attend (some event, especially a class or a meeting).
- To jump rope.
- To leave, especially in a sudden and covert manner.
- To leap lightly over.
verb
- To ride (a horse) hard or mercilessly.
- To make, or cause to make (the recovery), with a certain hurried or unskillful forward swing of the body.
- To rain heavily.
- To place inside a bucket.
- To draw or lift in, or as if in, buckets.
- To travel very quickly.
- To criticize vehemently; to denigrate.
- To categorize (data) by splitting it into buckets, or groups of related items.
noun
- A bucket bag.
- A helmet.
- Part of a piece of machinery that resembles a bucket (container).
- A container made of rigid material, often with a handle, used to carry liquids or small items.
- A great deal of anything.
- A turbine blade driven by hot gas or steam.
- A large amount of liquid.
- The leather socket for holding the whip when driving, or for the carbine or lance when mounted.
- an insult term used in Toronto to refer to someone who habitually uses crack cocaine.
- An old vehicle that is not in good working order.
- A field goal.
- The amount held in this container.
- A storage space in a hash table for every item sharing a particular key.
- The basket.
- The pitcher in certain orchids.
- A mechanism for avoiding the allocation of targets in cases of mismanagement.
noun
- the act of hopping; jumping upward or forward (especially on one foot)
- twining perennials having cordate leaves and flowers arranged in conelike spikes; the dried flowers of this plant are used in brewing to add the characteristic bitter taste to beer
- an informal dance where popular music is played
verb
verb
- To fall; to stumble and go lame, as a horse.
- To flood with water and sink.
- To fail; to miscarry.
- To disable or lame (a horse) by causing internal inflammation and soreness in the feet or limbs.
noun
- One who founds or establishes (especially said of a company, project, organisation, state).
- One who casts metals in various forms; a caster.
- The iron worker in charge of the blast furnace and the smelting operation.
- A severe laminitis of a horse, caused by untreated internal inflammation in the hooves.
- Someone for whose parents one has no data.
noun
- the act of jumping; propelling yourself off the ground
- a sudden and decisive increase
- an abrupt transition
- (film) an abrupt transition from one scene to another
- a sudden involuntary movement
- descent with a parachute
verb
- move or jump suddenly, as if in surprise or alarm
- move forward by leaps and bounds
- make a sudden physical attack on
- increase suddenly and significantly
- be highly noticeable
- enter eagerly into
- rise in rank or status
- jump down from an elevated point
- run off or leave the rails
- jump from an airplane and descend with a parachute
- cause to jump or leap
- start (a car engine whose battery is dead) by connecting it to another car's battery
- bypass
- pass abruptly from one state or topic to another
- go back and forth; swing back and forth between two states or conditions
verb
- Often followed by away, off, or out: to frighten or scare (someone or something) away.
- To force or make (a path, way, etc.) through.
- To rub.
- Of a person's mental strength, nerves, temper, etc.: to become exhausted or worn out.
- To assail or attack (someone or something); to drive (someone or something) away by attacking.
- To become unravelled or worn; to unravel.
- To be afraid or frightened; to fear.
- Of a deer: to rub (its antlers or head) against a tree, etc., to remove the velvet from antlers or to mark territory; also, to rub its antlers against (a tree, etc.) for that purpose.
- Of a deer: to rub its antlers against a tree, etc., to remove the velvet or to mark territory.
- To alarm or frighten (someone or something).
- To chase (someone or something) away; to disperse.
- To rub or wear away (something); to cause (something made of strands twisted or woven together, such as cloth or rope) to unravel through friction; also, to irritate (something) through chafing or rubbing; to chafe.
- To make an assault or attack; also, to create a disturbance; to brawl, to fight.
noun
verb
- To pull or yank strongly, especially in relation to horse riding.
- To take in part of a sail in order to adapt the size of the sail to the force of the wind.
- To move the floats of a paddle wheel toward its center so that they will not dip so deeply.
- To manipulate the lining of a person's pocket in order to steal the contents unnoticed.
adj
noun
- A chain or range of rocks, sand, or coral lying at or near the surface of the water.
- A reef knot.
- The itch; any eruptive skin disorder.
- A large vein of auriferous quartz; hence, any body of rock yielding valuable ore.
- A portion of a sail rolled and tied down to lessen the area exposed in a high wind.
- Dandruff.
verb
- To flinch or draw back.
- To begin.
- To awaken suddenly.
- To put or raise (a question, an objection); to put forward (a subject for discussion).
- To disturb and cause to move suddenly; to startle; to alarm; to rouse; to cause to flee or fly.
- To break away, to come loose.
- To put into play.
- To move suddenly from its place or position; to displace or loosen; to dislocate.
- To pour out; to empty; to tap and begin drawing from.
- To set in motion.
- To have its origin (at), begin.
- To bring onto being or into view; to originate; to invent.
- To jerk suddenly in surprise.
- To start one's periods (menstruation).
- To begin an activity.
- To ready the operation of a vehicle or machine.
noun
- The beginning point of a race, a board game, etc.
- An appearance in a sports game, horserace, etc., from the beginning of the event.
- The curved or inclined front and bottom of a water wheel bucket.
- The arm, or level, of a gin, drawn around by a horse.
- An initial advantage over somebody else; a head start.
- A handle, especially that of a plough.
- A young plant germinated in a pot to be transplanted later.
- A projection or protrusion; that which pokes out.
- The beginning of an activity.
- An instance of starting.
- A sudden involuntary movement.
noun
- An act of springing: a leap, a jump.
- The source from which an action or supply of something springs.
- An erection of the penis.
- A line from a vessel's end or side to its anchor cable used to diminish or control its movement.
- The period from the moment of vernal equinox (around March 21 in the Northern Hemisphere) to the moment of the summer solstice (around June 21); the equivalent periods reckoned in other cultures and calendars.
- A spray or body of water springing from the ground.
- A grove of trees; a forest.
- The season of the year in temperate regions in which plants spring from the ground and into bloom and dormant animals spring to life.
- A shoot, a young tree.
- The time of something's growth; the early stages of some process.
- A race, a lineage.
- a period of political liberalization and democratization
- A cause, a motive, etc.
- Someone with ivory or peach skin tone and eyes and hair that are not extremely dark, seen as best suited to certain colors of clothing.
- A youth.
- Elasticity: the property of a body springing back to its original form after compression, stretching, etc.
- A line laid out from a vessel's end to the opposite end of an adjacent vessel or mooring to diminish or control its movement.
- The three months of March, April, and May in the Northern Hemisphere and September, October, and November in the Southern Hemisphere.
- Elastic energy, power, or force.
- A mechanical device made of flexible or coiled material that exerts force and attempts to spring back when bent, compressed, or stretched.
adj
verb
- To cause to well up or flow out of the ground.
- to descend or originate from.
- To cause to move energetically; (equestrianism) to cause to gallop, to spur.
- To burst into pieces, to explode, to shatter.
- To have something crack.
- To grow taller or longer.
- to catch in an illegal act or compromising position.
- To announce unexpectedly, to reveal.
- To free from imprisonment, especially by facilitating an illegal escape.
- To be free of imprisonment, especially by illegal escape.
- To extend, to curve.
- To rise suddenly, (of tears) to well up.
- To cause to rise from cover.
- To pay or spend a certain sum, to cough up.
- To cause to crack.
- to arise, to come into existence.
- To build, to form the initial curve of.
- To gush, to flow out of the ground.
- To rise from cover.
- To equip with springs, especially (of vehicles) to equip with a suspension.
- To bring forth.
- To sprout, to grow,
- To crack.
- To turn a vessel using a spring attached to its anchor cable.
- To come upon and flush out
- To deform owing to excessive pressure, to become warped; to intentionally deform in order to position and then straighten in place.
- To swell with milk or pregnancy.
- To come dramatically into view.
- To spend the springtime somewhere
- To gush, to flow suddenly and violently.
- to move with great speed and energy; to leap, to jump; to dart, to sprint; of people: to rise rapidly from a seat, bed, etc.
- to find or get enough food during springtime.
- To cause to explode, to set off, to detonate.
- To be born, descend, or originate from
- To appear, to dawn.
- To cause to work or open by sudden application of pressure.
noun
- A deep or abiding liking for something; an enthusiasm for something.
- A thing, activity, etc. which is the object of one's deep liking or enthusiasm.
- A deep caring for the existence of another.
- Nothing; no recompense.
- An instance or episode of being in love; a love affair.
- Sexual activity.
- Used as the closing, before the signature, of a letter, especially between good friends or family members, or by the young.
- A climbing plant, Clematis vitalba.
- A term of friendly address, regardless of feelings.
- A feeling of intense attraction towards someone.
- A person who is the object of romantic feelings; a darling, a sweetheart, a beloved.
- Affectionate, benevolent concern or care for other people or beings, and for their well-being.
- A profound and caring affection towards someone.
- Zero, no score.
- Sexual desire; attachment based on sexual attraction.
verb
noun
- a playful leap or hop
- any of numerous plants of the genus Capparis
- pickled flower buds used as a pungent relish in various dishes and sauces
- a crime (especially a robbery)
- gay or light-hearted recreational activity for diversion or amusement
- a ludicrous or grotesque act done for fun and amusement
verb
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