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Firework :: Firework (n.) A device for producing a striking display of light, or a figure or figures in plain or colored fire, by the combustion of materials that burn in some peculiar manner, as gunpowder, sulphur, metallic filings, and various salts. The most common feature of fireworks is a paper or pasteboard tube filled with the combustible material. A number of these tubes or cases are often combined so as to make, when kindled, a great variety of figures in fire, often variously colored. The skyrocke

Aphis Lion :: Aphis lion () The larva of the lacewinged flies (Chrysopa), which feeds voraciously upon aphids. The name is also applied to the larvae of the ladybugs (Coccinella)..

Joint-fir :: "Joint-fir (n.) A genus (Ephedra) of leafless shrubs, with the stems conspicuously jointed; -- called also shrubby horsetail. There are about thirty species, of which two or three are found from Texas to California..

Pamper :: Pamper (v. t.) To feed to the full; to feed luxuriously; to glut; as, to pamper the body or the appetite..

Sorely :: Sorely (adv.) In a sore manner; grievously; painfully; as, to be sorely afflicted..

Creep :: Creep (v. t.) To move slowly, feebly, or timorously, as from unwillingness, fear, or weakness..

Misrepute :: Misrepute (v. t.) To have in wrong estimation; to repute or estimate erroneously.

Labor :: Labor (v. t.) To prosecute, or perfect, with effort; to urge stre/uously; as, to labor a point or argument..

Affably :: Affably (adv.) In an affable manner; courteously.

Pusillanimously :: Pusillanimously (adv.) With pusillanimity.

Inflated :: Inflated (a.) Distended or enlarged fictitiously; as, inflated prices, etc..

Jilt :: "Jilt (v. t.) To cast off capriciously or unfeeling, as a lover; to deceive in love..

Polyphonic :: Polyphonic (a.) Consisting of several tone series, or melodic parts, progressing simultaneously according to the laws of counterpoint; contrapuntal; as, a polyphonic composition; -- opposed to homophonic, or monodic..

Prelimit :: Prelimit (v. t.) To limit previously.

Donor :: Donor (n.) One who gives or bestows; one who confers anything gratuitously; a benefactor.

Vampire :: Vampire (n.) A blood-sucking ghost; a soul of a dead person superstitiously believed to come from the grave and wander about by night sucking the blood of persons asleep, thus causing their death. This superstition is now prevalent in parts of Eastern Europe, and was especially current in Hungary about the year 1730..

Strict :: Strict (a.) Exact; accurate; precise; rigorously nice; as, to keep strict watch; to pay strict attention..

Jealous :: Jealous (a.) Zealous; solicitous; vigilant; anxiously watchful.

Strobile :: Strobilation (n.) The act or phenomenon of spontaneously dividing transversely, as do certain species of annelids and helminths; transverse fission. See Illust. under Syllidian..

Conglomerate :: Conglomerate (a.) Closely crowded together; densly clustered; as, conglomerate flowers..

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