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| cirrocumulus |
a high-altitude cloud formed of many small, thin, rounded cloudlets, often arranged in rows or regular series. |
| cirrostratus |
a thin, hazy, high-altitude cloud, which usu. covers the entire sky. |
| cirrus |
a high-altitude cloud usu. appearing in the form of filaments or threads. [1/3 definitions] |
| donnybrook |
(sometimes cap.) a noisy fight or brawl; free-for-all. |
| HST |
abbreviation of "Hawaiian-Aleution Standard Time," the standard time used in Hawaii and the Aleutian Islands, ten hours behind Greenwich time. |
| -ial |
a variant of -al1. |
| melee |
a chaotic hand-to-hand fight among several combatants; free-for-all. [1/2 definitions] |
| mescaline |
a drug that causes hallucinations and similar mind-altering effects, derived from the buttonlike protuberances of the mescal cactus; peyote. |
| panacea |
a remedy or solution for all diseases, ills, or difficulties; cure-all. |
| PCP |
a powerful and dangerous drug originally intended as an animal tranquilizer but sometimes ingested by humans for its psychedelic and mood-altering effects; phenylcyclohexylpiperidine, or phencyclidine pill. |
| Shirley Temple2 |
a non-alcoholic cocktail named after the child movie star Shirley Temple. (See Temple, Shirley.) |
| songfest |
an informal gathering for singing, often of folk songs; sing-along. |
| stoned |
under the influence of a mind-altering drug. [1/2 definitions] |
| stratocumulus |
a low-altitude cloud type characterized by large dark horizontal masses with rounded summits. |
| wiseacre |
one who has or pretends to have great knowledge or wisdom; know-it-all. [1/2 definitions] |
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