• the region to which, according to the belief of American Indians, the souls of warriors and hunters pass after death, to be happy in hunting and feasting, a temporary residence for the purpose of hunting, the activity of looking thoroughly in order to find something or someone
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  • a severe tropical cyclone usually with heavy rains and winds moving a 73-136 knots (12 on the Beaufort scale), A violent storm, characterized by extreme fury and sudden changes of the wind, and generally accompanied by rain, thunder, and lightning; -- especially prevalent in the East and West Indies Also used figuratively, Something resembling a hurricane in force or speed
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  • the act of damaging something or someone, feelings of mental or physical pain, A band on a trip-hammer helve, bearing the trunnions, verb_ give trouble or pain to, feel pain or be in pain, feel physical pain, transitive verb_ To cause physical pain to; to do bodily harm to; to wound or bruise painfully, To impar the value, usefulness, beauty, or pleasure of; to damage; to injure; to harm, To wound the feelings of; to cause mental pain to; to offend in honor or self-respect; to annoy; to grieve, intransitive verb_ To have or produce a feeling of physical pain or discomfort, To have an adverse effect, To cause mental or emotional suffering to; distress
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  • A married man; a man who has a wife; -- the correlative to wife, A man in a marriage or marital relationship, especially in relation to his spouse, obsolete The male head of a household; one who orders the economy of a family, verb_ use cautiously and frugally, transitive verb_ rare To cultivate, as land; to till, rare To furnish with a husband, To conserve
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  • (genetics) an organism that is the offspring of genetically dissimilar parents or stock; especially offspring produced by breeding plants or animals of different varieties or breeds or species, A word whose elements are derived from different languages, adjective_ Produced from the mixture of two genetically distinct strains, erived by a mixture of characteristics from two distinctly different sources, produced by crossbreeding
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  • moved or operated or effected by liquid (water or oil), of or relating to the study of hydraulics, Pertaining to water
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  • noun; A narcotic opiate prescribed as an analgesic and antitussive, A narcotic drug derived from codeine, C18H21NO3, used in its bitartrate form as an analgesic and antitussive
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  • a nonmetallic univalent element that is normally a colorless and odorless highly flammable diatomic gas; the simplest and lightest and most abundant element in the universe, An atom of the element, Chemical symbol, H One of the elementary substances, existing as a colorless, tasteless, and inodorous ga
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  • the science concerned with the prevention of illness and maintenance of health, Cleanliness, in the context of personal hygiene, That department of sanitary science which treats of the preservation of health, esp of households and communities; a system of principles or rules designated for the promotion of health
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  • a tentative insight into the natural world; a concept that is not yet verified but that if true would explain certain facts or phenomena, A supposition; a proposition or principle which is supposed or taken for granted, in order to draw a conclusion or inference for proof of the point in question; something not proved, but assumed for the purpose of argument, or to account for a fact or an occurrence, The antecedent of a conditional statement
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