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Traditional English :: macabre
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macabean.html - adj. grim, gruesome. [ME f. OF macabr÷ perh. f. Macab÷ a Maccabee, with ref. to a miracle play showing the slaughter of the Maccabees] |
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Traditional English :: macabre
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macabean.html - adj. grim, gruesome. [ME f. OF macabr÷ perh. f. Macab÷ a Maccabee, with ref. to a miracle play showing the slaughter of the Maccabees] |
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Traditional English :: macadam
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macabean.html - n. 1 material for road-making with successive layers of compacted broken stone. 2 = TARMACADAM. macadamize v.tr. (also -ise). [J. L. McAdam, Brit. surveyor d. 1836, who advocated using this material] |
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Traditional English :: macadamia
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macabean.html - n.
any Australian evergreen tree of the genus Macadamia, esp. M. ternifolia, bearing edible nutlike seeds. [J. Macadam, Austral. chemist d. 1865] |
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Traditional English :: macaque
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macabean.html - n. any monkey of the genus Macaca, including the rhesus monkey and Barbary ape, having prominent cheek pouches and usu. a long tail. [F f. Port. macaco f. Fiot makaku some monkeys f. kaku monkey] |
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Traditional English :: macaroni
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macabean.html - n. 1 a tubular variety of pasta. 2 (pl. macaronies) hist. an 18th-c. British dandy affecting Continental fashions. [It. maccaroni f. late Gk makaria food made from barley] |
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